Pokrovskoe–Glebovo– Streshnevo Homestead
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Camera: Canon EOS 5
Lens: Canon EF 28-105 1:3.5-4.5 USM
Film: Astrum 135 Colour Negative Film (ISO 125)
Photo taken: 11/10/2018
Scanner: Noritsu LS-1100
The farmstead is located on the former site of the Podelki village. The Intercession Church at Pokrovskoe-Streshnevo was built here in 1629. The area became known as "Village Pokrovske."
Rodion Matveevich Streshnev, the relative of the first wife of Tsar Mikhail Romanov bought Pokrovskoe in 1664.
Stone house was built after the adoption of the Manifesto on the Granting of Liberty Russian nobility in general -in-chief Peter Ivanovich Streshnev time. He was the governor of Kiev for several years. It was a typical Elizabethan times house with 10 rooms. There were about 130 paintings in the house. Peter Ivanovich expanded his patrimony and it appeared in its entire splendor.
Streshnev’s daughter Elizabeth, subsequently married to General F.I. Glebov became the owner of the noble nest after the death of P.I. Streshnev. She won the right to be referred Glebova - Streshneva in 1803.
Elizabeth rebuilt the house in accordance with her taste and it became bigger, and most importantly - stricter and thinner. Garden with ponds and built six greenhouses were added.
The last owner of the estate, Eugene F. Shahovskaya - Glebova- Streshnev changed the whole complex by building multiple outhouses in the estate.
She decided to rebuild it in the style of a fabulous medieval castle in the 1880s. She hired architects A. Rezanov and K.Terskiy to do the job. Red brick outhouses in pseudo-Russian style were built on the sides of the houses in 1889-1900. Strong fence with red-brick towers designed by F. Kolbe and Popov appeared around the manor. Two large wooden towers and several smaller ones were built later on top of the central part of the house.
After the revolution the whole estate was nationalised, the Intercession Church was closed and the estate's territory was turned into a park for workers. The main house was briefly used as a museum, but this too was closed in 1923 and it was later turned into a civil aviation research institute. Nearby manor villas where Karamzin, actor Vasily Luga, doctors Botkin and Bers lived, was converted into a sanatorium of the Central Committee of the CPSU.
A serious fire destroyed the roof, mezzanine, part of the second floor of the main house in the spring of 1992. Subsequently the reconstruction of the building began, but this process has not been completed to this day.
This "noble nest" is in poor condition at the moment, the south-west part of the park remains occupied by the Intercession Church (reopened in 1994) and the abandoned estate house, while the rest of the former estate has been developed as a park with forest areas and several ponds created on the River Chernushka which flows through it.
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