🌳 Batovo Estate Park and the Ryleyev Stele

Гатчинский р-н, пос. Батово

The former estate of the Ryleyevs, later of the Nabokovs: an overgrown park on the high bank of the Oredezh.

From 1800 Batovo belonged to the mother of the Decembrist poet Kondraty Ryleyev; he spent his childhood here.
The Decembrists Alexander Bestuzhev and Wilhelm Küchelbecker visited Ryleyev at Batovo.
The stele stands on the site of the Ryleyevs' wooden house; it was designed by architect Alexander Syomochkin.
Later the estate was owned by the Nabokovs, including the writer's grandmother Maria Ferdinandovna.
The manor house burned down in 1923; part of the park is all that remains of the estate.

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