The Gagarin Manor in Moscow. The Gagarins' Mansion

The ramified princely family of the Gagarins has its roots to Vsevolod the Big Nest, and then to Rurik - Prince Michael Starodubsky-Golibesovsky belonged to the XVIIth of his tribe. Three sons of Mikhail Ivanovich out of five had the common nickname Gagar. Hence the three branches of the princes Gagarins, who were related to many Russian names - Trubetskoy, Guryev, Golitsyn, went. In a relationship with Gagarin was the famous general Skobelev, and Prince VA Menshikov.

Major Dignitary

As they say, "according to the owner and a thing" - the Gagarin estate in Moscow is one of the largest urban estates. Borders of the vast territory on which it is located are Strastnoy Boulevard, Petrovka Street and Uspensky Lane. Naturally, representatives of this kind occupied the most responsible state posts. Thus, Prince Sergei, to whom the Gagarin estate in Moscow owes its appearance, leaving in 1773 the post of president of the College of Economics, engaged in the management of the estate near Moscow Catherine the Great. In gratitude he is allocated a site for the construction of his own city estate, the construction of which is entrusted to Matvei Kazakov, the chief court architect. He coped with a difficult task brilliantly - combined a large city palazzo with a vast courtyard.

The only and very serious passion of Sergei Gagarin was gardening. In the center of the capital, greenhouses were broken, which after the death of the prince in 1782 lasted another 20 years.

Here they celebrated Bagration

Gagarin's Estate in Moscow - a landmark of the capital, sung by Leo Tolstoy: at the beginning of the novel "War and Peace" Prince Rostov prepares the celebration of Prince Bagration in the English Club, which was located after 1802 in the famous estate. The French, who entered the capital, looked him up to their headquarters (this is known from Stendhal's memoirs), but the building was burnt in the fire of Moscow in 1812. Naturally, after the war, the prestigious capital club was located in another mansion, and the Gagarins' estate in Moscow stood abandoned for a while. Owners of it in 1821 restored the left wing of the city estate in order to take it to equestrian performances of the Finardi troupe, circus performers from Sweden. It continued until 1826, when the city authorities bought a huge estate from the Gagarins. The pupil of Matvey Kazakov, Osip Bove, supervised the restoration works. The main house of the Gagarin estate in Moscow, which stretched along the whole block and occupies rooms 15 to 29, was completely restored in accordance with the original design. From himself, Bove added only a relief panel above the columns of the facade of the palace, a church inside the courtyard and small farm buildings. These additions are located on the territory of demolished greenhouses.

House of Sorrow

In 1833, the restored Gagarin estate was moved by the Catherine's Hospital of the Insane from the poorest sections of the population, which had existed since 1776, but could not find a permanent place. The last address was 3rd Meshchanskaya street. On her, and still remained some capacity of the house of mourning, but the bulk moved to Gagarin's estate. The main hospital was called Novo-Ekaterininskaya. Vast premises allowed the opening of new branches and laboratories of Moscow University.

The Saved Architectural and Historical Monument

City estate Gagarin and after the revolution for many years was a medical institution. In this role, it lasted 176 years. Hospital No. 24 moved to a new building on Pitsova Street only in 2009. Full-scale reconstruction of the estate Gagariny and adjacent to it, conducted in strict accordance with the old drawings, saved a wonderful mansion from complete destruction and restored to it its former beauty and grandeur. In February 2015, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin personally inspected the completion of the work. The yard of the manor is planned to be connected by a pedestrian zone with the Hermitage park. A new life of the historical and architectural monument of the capital begins.

Crimean possessions

Of course, that such a famous, branched, rich family throughout Russia was not one castle, a palace, a manor. Some of them have survived to this day and are architectural pearls. An excellent example is the palace-estate of Gagarin. Description of this beautiful estate, located on Cape Plaka near Alushta, you can start with a small historical reference. It was erected on the site of the palace of AM Borozdin. The Taurian governor built a palace in the early 19th century, in which the best people of Russia were frequent guests - Sumarokov and Pushkin, Griboedov and Adam Mickiewicz, Zhukovsky and others. The second husband of the daughter of Borozdin Maria was Prince AI Gagarin.

In memory of her husband

His second wife was the Georgian princess Anastasia Davydovna Orbeliani. She, having preserved her love for her husband until the end of her days, erected in her memory the new, beautiful palace, the construction of which ended in 1907, the year of the death of the princess. The best building materials for the castle were brought from all over Europe. Constructed in a very short time, he immediately became a tourist attraction here. Performed in a modernized ancient German style, Gagarin's palace resembles the Massandra Palace of Emperor Alexander III. Spiers, crowned with weathervanes, red tiles, brought from Germany, crenellated walls, grapes, openwork balconies give the building a unique charm. The brainchild of architect Krasnov is an ornament of the Crimean coast. Above the entrance is the coat of arms of the Gagarins. Now the estate is given for the sanatorium "Utes".

From hand to hand

A landmark of Moscow is the Gagarin-Tyutchev Estate located in the Armenian side street. Its first owner at the beginning of the XVII century was the boyar Miloslavsky, a relative of the wife of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich. Then during the XVIII century it was owned by the Volkonsk, Dmitriyev-Mamontovs, Glebovs. And in 1790 Ivan Sergeyevich Gagarin buys it. With him, the palace was rebuilt under the guidance of architect Matvey Kazakov. Expanded at the expense of extensions and grown on one 3rd floor, the house has not changed its core, the chambers erected throughout the previous centuries. Initially decorated with two rizalitami (protrusions) on the facade, he lived to this day in this form. A particularly refined mansion makes its balcony on columns. In 1810, the parents of the future poet Feodor Ivanovich Tyutchev bought a mansion from the Gagarins. Childhood of the author of the lines "Mind does not understand Russia ..." was held within the walls of this house. Tyutchev's surname for the history of our country means no less than the name of the columnar noblemen Gagarin. The mansion that united them together is called the Gagarin-Tyutchev Estate. The poet's family did not become the last owner of the palace, and later he passed from hand to hand, both before the revolution and after. Now the Russian Children's Fund is located in the building that is located in the Armenian side street.