🏛 Zhernovka Manor

Ириновский пр., 9

A Classicist estate of the 1790s in Okhta (attributed to Quarenghi) with a pier and a pond.

The main house with two wings topped by turrets was built in 1794–1796 on the steep bank of the Okhta.
Quarenghi's authorship is supported by his signed drawing of a pavilion by the pier and a similar estate design in the Castello Sforzesco in Milan.
In 1827 Nicholas I passed Zhernovka to the merchant Kramer, who grew vegetables and fruit here for sale and ran a dairy farm.
The second name, the Bezobrazov dacha, appeared after 1844, when the estate's heiress Anna married N. A. Bezobrazov.
In 1924 the artist Nikolai Lanceray described and photographed the estate — his photos later became the basis for restoration.
In 1929 the main house was turned into a horse veterinary clinic and cowshed, later into dormitories; the paintings and tiled stoves were lost then.
Zhernovka has been a monument of federal significance since 2001; from 2023 it is being transferred to the city to be adapted as a music school.

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