Count Shcherbatov. Manor in the village of Vasilievskoye: history and description

The castle of the manor was built in 1881. At that time, the owners of the estate were the Shcherbatov brothers: Count Alexander Grigoryevich and Countess Olga Alexandrovna.

Description of the castle

From the point of view of the stylistic belonging of the building, the castle belongs to the English "Victorian" neo-gothic of the XIX century. The combination of the main volume of the building and its side wing by a corner tower called the "donjon" creates asymmetry and gives the castle a medieval mystery of "foggy Albion". The English style, indeed, is visible in everything. From the gable roof, pipes are constructed, built according to the traditional canons of old England. The castle is surrounded by a lawn in the English style, with stone paths. The pathos and grandeur of the building is emphasized by the presence of towers, different heights of the roof, decorated with openwork grilles. In the interior there are many elements from oak panels, on which are depicted clan arms.

The tree, in general, is the predominant material in the design of rooms and corridors. The main staircase is also made of solid oak. There are several fireplaces. A special decoration of the castle is a cigar room. It was here that the owners of the castle, including the Count Shcherbatov, rested and welcomed the guests. The manor and the castle were in a state of neglect for a long time. On the territory of the estate there is a sanatorium named after Herzen. And in 2015 the repair in the castle of Count Shcherbatov ended and now there is the 2nd neurological department of the sanatorium.

The count's estate is located in the Odintsovo district of the Moscow region. The village of Vasilievskoye is a settlement on the territory of which the manor of Count Shcherbatov is located. The location of the castle itself is Maryina Gora.

Count Shcherbatov - the last owner of the estate

Alexander Grigorievich received his estate from his father in 1877. He himself at that time was acting as an authorized Red Cross in one of the detachments in the Balkans, where fierce battles of the Russo-Turkish war were going on. Soon after the war he married. His wife was Countess Olga Alexandrovna Stroganova. Together they traveled a lot. Having visited almost all corners of the world (Asia, Europe, India, Ceylon), they started cultivating Arabian horses for the first time in Russia . Horse-breeding plants owned by their family supplied horses to the Imperial Court.

Wonders of the estate

Now the existing castle was built when the owner of the estate was Count Shcherbatov. The estate became the permanent residence of the Count's family only by 1912. But the constant travel did not prevent Olga Alexandrovna from setting up a real paradise there. In the greenhouses there were many strange, brought from India, Syria, Java, flowers and trees; In the manor park you could see incredible southern plants, and on the lawns, hand-held chamois and roe deer were walking peacefully. The count also built a menagerie, where various exotic animals lived. Also, the couple were great fans of hunting, so they kept a big kennel.

Shcherbatov's contribution to the development of Vasilyevsky

After returning from a long trip to England and Cyprus, the couple permanently settled in Vasilievsky. There they opened a school, a hospital in which the maternity ward was provided. Their efforts restored and restored the temple. The needy peasants always turned to the Count and Countess for help, and they never refused. At the direction of Alexander Grigoryevich elderly villagers received a pension. And Olga Aleksandrovna took great care of her children, and for them she opened a children's club where classes for kids were organized, and every Christmas Christmas was arranged.

The most reliable evidence of kindness, nobility and other qualities of the soul of Prince Alexander Grigorievich are the mountains of letters sent by ordinary people who fought on the fronts of the First World War. They thanked Shcherbatov for his invaluable help. He at the request of the soldiers sent to the front many necessary things: from warm clothes and boots to bandages and medicines. The letters are filled with gratitude, wishes of good health to the Count and his family. Proceeding from the foregoing, we can conclude how merciful, pious, sensitive and kind the Count Shcherbatov was.

Manor, thanks to the efforts of the owners, became known throughout the district. Here came the peasants who had no one to turn to for help. Descendants of the old Vasilievsky remembered such a case. One day a poor peasant came to Alexander Grigorievich with a plea to lend a horse for the summer. He complied with the request. And when a grateful peasant brought the horse back in the autumn, Alexander Grigorievich gave him money too. As people said, for diligence and honesty.

As the Count Shcherbatov passed away. Manor in the Soviet Government

Alexander Grigorievich died on April 24, 1915. He was 65 years old. Twenty days before the death of the Count, his eldest son suddenly died. Many contemporaries said that he could not survive this grief. To hold the count in the last way gathered (by the standards) a lot of people - more than 300 people. This mournful event shocked the residents of Vasilievsky and other surrounding villages, because Alexander Grigorievich was the patron of all common people, neither regretful, nor strength, nor money to help the suffering. The grave of Count Shcherbatov became the burial place. Where is Alexander Grigoryevich's ashes now? According to some information, the body was reburied, and now the dust of the Count rests in St. Petersburg.

After the death of her son and husband, Olga Alexandrovna, her daughter and daughter-in-law (widow of Alexander) were engaged in organizing the work of a medical train, which the countess arranged. This train traveled on all fronts of the war: with it they delivered medicines, transported the seriously wounded to hospitals, provided first aid. In 1918, the Countess, together with her daughter and daughter-in-law, left Russia forever. They took all the valuable things from the castle with them. Olga Alexandrovna lived a long life, having died at the age of 87 in France.

After the revolution, the remaining property was looted by marauders. Soviet power was established here in 1918, and in 1919 a recreation center was organized here, renamed in 1923 to the Herzen sanatorium. Years later, new buildings of the sanatorium were built, and the estate of Count Shcherbatov was in desolation and almost turned into ruins. So it was until recently, at the moment the castle is overhauled and now there is the 2nd neurological department of the Herzen sanatorium.

Closed school and the estate of Count Shcherbatov: history or fiction?

According to the plot of the series "Closed School", which deserved great popularity, an educational institution in which events unfold - this is the estate of Count Shcherbatov. In fact, the shootings of the series did not take place in Vasilievsky, but in the estate of Serednikovo near Moscow , which is a tribal nest of Stolypin-Lermontovs.

And the mysterious dungeons that we see on the show have nothing to do with what's in the real estate. The similarity is, perhaps, in the presence of narrow corridors and ornate turns. In times of the Soviet Union, there were utility rooms and kitchen facilities.

That is, the estate of Count Shcherbatov, the dungeon (photo in the period of oblivion below) have nothing to do with the events of the series. And all told by the writers is an invention that has nothing to do with the history of the castle.