🏛 Yasenevo estate

Новоясеневский пр-т, 42, корп. 1

The old Lopukhin estate on the edge of Bitsevsky Forest: a main house with two wings, and next to it the 18th-century Church of Saints Peter and Paul.

The village of Yasinovskoye is first mentioned in the will of Ivan Kalita from 1336–1339: the prince bequeathed it to his youngest son Andrey.
After his wedding to Evdokia Lopukhina, Peter I granted Yasenevo to her father Fyodor Lopukhin.
In 1718 Avraam Lopukhin was executed in the case of Tsarevich Alexei, and Yasenevo passed to the treasury.
The present main house and wings go back to the 1730s — they were built to a design by the architect Ivan Michurin.
On 25 August 1775 Catherine II and Field Marshal Pyotr Rumyantsev visited the estate.
In 1800 Paul I bought Yasenevo and immediately gave it to his favorite Anna Lopukhina.
In the Church of Saints Peter and Paul in 1822 Nikolay Tolstoy and Maria Volkonskaya — the future parents of Leo Tolstoy — were married.
In the 1970s restoration the third floor of the main house was not restored, and it took on a look it never had.

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Uzkoye and Yasenevo: estates by Bitsa Forest