Nikolskoye-Prozorovskoye Manor
The Nikolskoye-Prozorovskoye Manor has been known since 1538 as Prince Serebryany’s patrimonial estate. The estate’s architectural makeup was finalised in the late 18th century, when it was owned by Field Marshal A. A. Prozorovsky, a famed military figure during Elizabeth’s reign. The park and the church are survivors of that period.
The residential buildings on the estate were built by its new owners, the Trubetskoys, in the middle of the 19th century. The estate is laid out along two mutually perpendicular axes. One of them runs through the manor house, the main parkway and into the great pond. The other merges with the access road, which divides the manor grounds into two unequal parts, different in structure.
After the Trubetskoys, the manor was owned by F. A. Rabenek, V. G. Sychov, Kuznetsov, and V. P. Ryabushinsky.
The the Sanctifier was built in 1792 on the site of the old wooden building. With its plastered brick walls and white-stone details, the St. Nicholas Church was built in the Classical style. The church has been restored and is open for worship.
The south part, flanking the house, is well laid-out and organised. The north part is scenic in nature. The two-storey plastered brickwork manor house and the 19th century outhouses are modelled on symbolic forms of Rastrelli’s Baroque. The outhouses are in an advanced state of disrepair. The 18th century grotto is in a somewhat better shape. The Nikolskoye-Prozorovskoye manor park still has a rather large forested area intact.