🖼 Lopasnya-Zachatyevskoye Estate

Чехов, ул. Пушкина, 10

The Vasilchikov estate where the children of Pushkin and Natalya Goncharova spent long stretches; an exhibition about the Vasilchikov, Pushkin, Lanskoy and Goncharov families, and a park with ponds. A branch of the Melikhovo museum.

The estate belonged to the Vasilchikov family from the 16th century to 1917, passing down by inheritance.
The manor house in late Elizabethan baroque style was built in the 1770s under Alexander Vasilchikov, a favourite of Catherine II.
The third mezzanine floor was added after the war of 1812 by one of its veterans, the Chevalier Guard Nikolay Vasilchikov.
In 1917 a box with Pushkin's business papers and the manuscript of the unfinished “History of Peter I” was found on the estate.
The park's main adornment is eight cascading ponds with a total area of about 3 ha on three terraces.
In Soviet times the house held an evening school; restoration for the museum ran from 1996 to 2007.
From the old interior, the columns of the ceremonial hall and tiled stoves of the early 19th century have survived.

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Melikhovo: Chekhov’s estate and Lopasnya