🖼 Serednikovo Estate: Ceremonial Courtyard and House

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The classicist estate of the Stolypins, where Lermontov's grandmother brought him for the holidays; later, under the Firsanovs, Chaliapin and Rachmaninoff visited.

The ensemble was created by Senator Vsevolod Vsevolozhsky, who owned the estate in 1775–1796; the architect is unknown, and the art historian M. A. Ilyin suggested Ivan Starov.
The main house with a belvedere is joined by colonnades to four two-storey outbuildings.
The childhood of the future prime minister Pyotr Stolypin was spent here in the 1860s.
In 1890 the owner Vera Firsanova commissioned Viktor Shtemberg to paint the Oval Hall's ceiling panel on the theme of Lermontov's “Demon”.
In August 1919 Lenin rested at the estate, and a sanatorium opened here in 1925.
In early July 1941 children from Artek were evacuated here.
“Admiral”, “Poor Nastya”, “Closed School” and “Ugryum-Reka” were filmed at the estate.

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Serednikovo: Lermontov's holidays