🏛 Altufyevo estate and the Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross

Алтуфьевское ш., 147–149

A main house with a wooden mezzanine and a Baroque church of 1760–1763 above a pond — a former village known since 1585.

The place was originally called Oltufyevo — supposedly after the surname of its first owners, the Oltufyev nobles; the "A" in the name appeared in the 19th century.
The estate's owner Nikita Akinfov was married to a relative of Tsarina Evdokia Lopukhina and was forced to become a monk after her disgrace in 1699.
The main house got its present look in 1851 under Nikolay Zherebtsov: the facades are finished in the Russian style with kokoshniks and jug-shaped columns, and the Zherebtsov coat of arms is on the pediment.
In 1888 the oil industrialist Georgy Lianozov bought the estate and soon sold the land for a dacha village — this is how Lianozovo appeared.
In the early 20th century the owner Tatyana Unkovskaya ran a guesthouse here, where guests played lawn tennis and croquet and went boating.
During the 1993–1995 reconstruction the church grew 2.5 times; it is in this form that it is depicted on the coat of arms of the Lianozovo district.
Altufyevo, 8 km from the capital, became part of Moscow in 1960.

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