Yaropolets is an ancient village near Volokolamsk, where (it sounds anecdotal, but it really is), Catherine II, Pushkin, and Lenin and Krupskaya once visited. It would seem that only Petrosian is missing for the full list, but this humorist did not seem to look into the local homesteads. But all the rest here, if not a monument, then at least there is a separate stand in the museum.

In fact, this interest in Yaropolets is justified: after all, since the end of the 17th century two estates with eminent owners . Yaropolets have been located in the outskirts of Moscow. Originally, it was granted in 1682 to former Ukrainian hetman Doroshenko , who surrendered to Moscow . ere he lived for 14 years, died and was buried under the arches of the elegant chapel, which, alas, in 1953 was broken, but reconstructed again in 1999 .The husband of the hetman's granddaughter (who inherited the estate) -Alexander Artemyevich Zagryazhsky-was visited by Empress Catherine II . She also happened to be in the second estate, more about which below .

In turn, Zagryazhsky's granddaughter married industrialist Goncharova, from whom she gave birth to Pushkin's Natalia. It was on a visit to the mother-in-law that Alexander Sergeyevich came in 1833 and 1834, after leaving such memories:

If you follow from Volokolamsk, the first place on the road will be the Goncharovs' estate. It is not just restored, today there is a recreation center of the Moscow Aviation Institute, but you can enter freely. At the entrance to the estate is the church of St. John the Baptist in 1755, after which the front courtyard opens.

The second manor of Yaropolets, unfortunately, is abandoned, almost in ruins, but it's worthwhile to approach it. Firstly, the architecture of the Chernyshev estate is remarkable: it is a two-storeyed palace in the style of early classicism with motives of the French Rococo.

Secondly, just across the road from it stands an amazing Kazan church, the project of which probably belonged to Matvey Kazakov . Thirdly, immediately behind the estate begins an amazing park with century-old trees where it stands with Catherine's body), abandoned, overgrown, but very picturesque . Finally, strolling along this park, you can go to a small hydroelectric plant built in 1918 by local, inspired by the general electrification of the country, residents . It was for this hydroelectric power station that Yaropolets visited 1920 Lenin and his half . The monument to both of them is at the road . The first rural power station in Russia, by the way, was damaged by the Germans, because now it does not work . It was restored, but only as a monument: the water is slowly here overflows, murmurs, attracting every summer of adventurous boys .

Coordinates

Address: Moscow region, Volokolamsky district, Yaropolets.

How to get there: on the Novorizhskoe highway towards Volokolamsk, then north through the village of Smychka to the T-junction near the Maslennikovo village, then again left turn. You can get there by train from the Riga railway station to the Volokolamsk station, where buses number 28 and 39 go to Yaropolets.

Yaropolets

Chernyshevye Manor, Yaropolets

Inside the Church of Our Lady of Kazan, Yaropolets

Church of Our Lady of Kazan, Yaropolets

Dam of hydroelectric power station, Yaropolets