(Russia, Smolensk region, Novoduginsky district, Aleksandrino)
How to get there? By car from Moscow along the Minsk highway before reaching the city of Vyazma, the right turn immediately after the flyover. There is a pointer - "To Sychevka and Zubtsov." Further all the time straight ahead (as before the Vysokoye estate). In Torbeevo, a left turn and all the time straight ahead - there will soon be a sign for Aleksandrino.
Preserved: main house, two outbuildings, service building, service building "House of the Circassians", a vast park with ponds and an oak alley
The Lobanov-Rostovsky estate seemed to me quite prosperous, because somewhere I heard that a rest home functioned here ... it functioned, about 10 years ago ...
Coming out of the car, I realized that there was another meeting with the desecrated Soviet estate past. However, the Alexandrino estate is still quite young - it was rebuilt on Tue. floor. XIX century. Of the buildings, a brick and plastered manor house, two outbuildings and two service buildings, one of which bears strange name"House of the Circassians".
All buildings are grouped around a rectangular court d'honneur, with a flower bed in the center. As a symbol of the past era, on a gray pedestal stands Maxim Gorky in a “peeling” paint (probably, the health resort bore his name). Powerful oaks and lindens overshadow the abandoned buildings with thick foliage, the paths are overgrown with grass - the locals rarely go here ... after all, there is nothing to take from the looted rest home ...
What else Alexandrino can be proud of is the park - the most extensive of those preserved in the Smolensk region. It consists of about 20 species of trees, from exotics - larches. The alley, which has about 150 centuries-old oaks in its ranks, causes awe.
Some elements of the park, and in particular the nature of the plantations, suggest that the beginning of its formation dates back to the first half of the 18th century. A feature of the park is the abundance of water, on one side of the road in the landscape massif there is a picturesque labyrinth of three terraced ponds connected by isthmuses. The longitudinal compositional axis, penetrating the ensemble, is continued behind the house by a wide clearing, resting against a large oval pond.
This technique, which allows you to view the mirror of the pond from the house, and from behind the pond in the gap of the man-made alley - to see the house - is very touching, despite its prevalence.
In Alexandrino, in general, everything is touching and sad ... The interiors of the house were ruthlessly redone at the end of the 20th century. with the use of reinforced concrete in the structures ... The floors with mosaic chips, the cladding of the walls of the vestibule with wooden crates - she herself once designed the decoration before Perestroika ... There was nothing left in the house except the walls, yes, - the stage was still preserved somewhere on the top, and under it, I found several tickets for vacationers, tickets from the bright communist past that has long been crossed out ...
P.S. The estate was transferred to the Kazan company ASG for restoration, with the subsequent adaptation of the object cultural heritage To modern life.
From scientific sources: the park of the village. Alexandrino
Located 15 km southwest of the district center, in the village. Alexandrino in a picturesque corner of the Smolensk region near the small river Teplyanka, a tributary of the Salik, which flows into the Vazuza. The boundaries of the park are not precisely defined. Its area is within 60-100 hectares. By area, this is one of the largest old parks in the region.
The regular park and the adjoining landscape park, together with the system of dammed lakes, are part of the estate of the Lobanov-Rostovsky princes. One of them - Alexei Borisovich Lobanov-Rostovsky (1842-1896) - Russian diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs 1895-96.
The house, outbuildings and outbuildings are located in the central part of the estate, in the upper part of a gentle slope, at the base of which there is a pond - the largest in the system of ponds of regular and landscape parks. The main house was built in the late classicist style. From 1950 until the mid-90s of the last century, a rest house was located in the manor buildings.
The regular park was located to the south and east of the main complex of manor buildings. He practically did not survive. It is difficult to guess its size and layout. According to the remains of alleys with a close arrangement of trees in rows, their height and condition, it can be assumed that they began to create it in the first half of the 18th century in a regular style. Its planning basis is made up of two alleys: one is oriented towards the center of the main manor house, the other runs in the southern part of the park and serves as its border. They were connected by three transverse alleys. The strict regularity of the park is significantly disturbed by plantings of a later time, as well as trees of seed and coppice origin. The dammed lake serves as the eastern border of the park, the only one of the reservoirs used until recently for recreation (there was a boat station on the lake). Initially, on the site of this lake there was an open space lined with lindens.
Of the old trees in the park, linden, oak, and larch predominate. Their age is from 100 to 200 years. Many of them are characterized by dry top, hollows, cracks. Linden, birch, elm, and ash predominate among young plantations. There is spruce, pine, willow, poplar. The rich undergrowth is unevenly represented. In the undergrowth there are: viburnum, bird cherry, mountain ash, honeysuckle, red elderberry, Tatar maple, lilac, yellow acacia, wild rose.
To the west of the complex of manor buildings stretched a fairly large array of landscape parks with original alleys and a complex system of ponds. It was probably created in the second half of the 18th century without taking into account the classical methods of park building of that time. Compared to the regular one, this park is relatively well preserved. There are more old trees here, their condition is better. The species diversity of tree species, as well as in a regular park, is small. In total, there are more than 20 species of woody plants in the parks, mainly plants of the local flora. Of the exotics, Siberian larch stands out here with a girth of trunks up to 260-280 cm. But individual oaks with a girth of trunks of 310-330 cm look more powerful.
The layout of this park is clearly visible. The main axis in it runs from the manor territory to the south-west. It is formed by a four-row alley, the inner rows of which are made of oak, the outer rows of linden. The width of the alley is 8 m. The trees in the rows are at a distance of 3-5 m from each other. The girth of their trunks is 190-240 cm. Approximately 100 m from the manor territory, the central alley intersects with a linden alley, which runs almost in a perpendicular direction. A reclamation ditch runs along this alley, which is part of the reclamation network built in the western part of the park. The system of reclamation canals has largely survived, but its effectiveness is low due to heavy silting. In this part of the park, there are also three cascading ponds connected by narrow canals. The larger of the ponds has a triangular outline, the smaller one is round, with a small island in the center.
Separate canals continue east of the ponds along the main alleys. Interesting in the landscape park are row plantings (4-5 rows) of linden, larch, oak. They can be considered as a kind of multi-row alleys.
The park is overgrown. At present, it resembles a forest, especially in the western part, where it is therefore difficult to determine its border. Reproduction of plantations, including low-value species (alder, aspen, willow, etc.), is carried out spontaneously. Plantations of young age noticeably prevail and significantly change the appearance of the park.
In general, both parks can be considered as one, with certain regularities in the construction. It also differs in the originality of the alleys. Here there are two-row and multi-row alleys, the outer and inner rows of which are represented by different species (inner - oak, outer - linden). In some alleys, the alternation of tree species (oak, pine, linden) in one row is clearly visible. Of the single-species alleys, an oak one stands out noticeably, going from the general massif of the park to the south. It has about 130 oaks. The girth of the trunks of some trees of this alley exceeds 2 meters. The width of the alley is 10 meters, the trees in the rows are located at a distance of 7-8 m from each other.
Due to intensive overgrowth, the park is increasingly losing its original appearance and turning into an ordinary forest.
Beautiful yellow building with a squat dome - the main house estate "Alexandrino". Towering on a ledge - this is perhaps the most noticeable of the surviving links of the ensemble of the Peterhof road. Now it contains art school.
Initially, it was the western part of the possessions of Natalia Alekseevna, the wife of Peter I. In 1718, she went to a major diplomat, envoy in Constantinople, Peter Andreyevich Tolstoy for the successful "case" of Tsarevich Alexei. However, in 1727 he did not get along with Menshikov, who was all-powerful at that time, and was exiled to the Solovetsky Monastery. The confiscated seaside court was granted to Stepan Lopukhin, returned from exile, where he was sent on the case of Tsarevich Alexei, carried out by Tolstoy, in 1719. But in 1743, on charges of conspiracy, Lopukhin was again sent into exile.
In 1762, the president of the Admiralty College, Count Ivan Grigorievich Chernyshev, became the owner of the dacha, to whom we owe modern look estates. Chernyshev immediately proceeds to the construction of a new stone house on his site. The Count spent many years abroad, where he developed a love for luxury and European art. Therefore, it is not surprising that he entrusted the construction of his country house to the French architect J. B. Vallin-Delamote, a representative of classicism new to Russia.
The building of the Alexandrino estate that has come down to us was built in classical forms of architecture. Its central two-story building, decorated with columned porticos with a balcony, crowned with a belvedere, was connected by one-story glazed galleries with symmetrical two-story side wings.
In the 1780s - early 1790s, the manor's house was rebuilt: the belvedere was covered with a spherical dome, the round windows of its drum were turned into large semicircular ones. Instead of a balcony, the portico was crowned with a triangular pediment. Now the building has acquired a modern, truly classic look. It became similar to the Taurida Palace (architect I. E. Starov). At the same time, the interiors of the oval living room and the main staircase, which had been preserved before the war, were refinished. Perhaps the author of the restructuring project was Giacomo Quarenghi.
An unusual octagonal hall was arranged in the middle of the main building. It was illuminated from above through the wide semicircular windows of the octagonal drum that completed this original interior. In the 1820s, a magnificent painting appeared in the central hall and in the lobby, the authorship of which was attributed to the best painter-decorator of the 1st third of the 19th century, D. Scotty. Fragments of it were preserved until 1941.
Under Chernyshov, a landscape garden with ponds was arranged on the territory of the estate, described as early as 1776 and 1777 in the memoirs of the French diplomat de Corberon and the English astronomer Bernoulli. As now, a significant part of the park was open spaces, meadows. The forest park started already southern system ponds on the basis of the same nameless stream, part of the channel of which has been preserved in the area of Stachek Avenue between the estate and the church of Peter the Metropolitan. In 1898, the dacha was bought by the owner of Ulyanka Alexander Dmitrievich Sheremetev, and it was then that she began to be called by the name of the owner "Alexandrino". The house has been renovated, but its valuable interiors have been preserved.
After the revolution, it became an ordinary residential building. Large rooms were divided by partitions, and pigs were kept in the central hall. During the years of the Great Patriotic War the estate, which turned out to be at the very front line of the defense, was almost completely turned into ruins: from it there was a skeleton crippled by shells, the galleries and the eastern wing were completely destroyed. In the 1960s, according to the project of the architect M. M. Plotnikov, the main building of the estate was restored, it was returned to its original appearance, but without recreating the interiors.
The estate, located on a hill, looks very picturesque surrounded by silvery willows hanging over man-made ponds and canals. IN Soviet time the forest park, where local residents like to relax, is officially put under state protection, but newly erected houses are advancing on the estate.
Manor Alexandrino classicism
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One of the surviving old estates.
The road at the foot of the natural terrace along the southern coast of the Gulf of Finland existed, as we were told vintage cards, already under the Swedes. But after Russia's victory over Sweden in the Northern War and the founding of St. Petersburg, this road, according to the plan of Peter I, was to become the main entrance to the capital, decorated with a continuous chain of magnificent country residences. And so the king ordered to build “funny stone houses with a fair amount of architectural work and decorate gardens” with fountains and cascades, ponds and waterfalls. It was then that the word "cottage" appeared, meaning a piece of land not far from St. Petersburg, which the tsar granted to his entourage. On the 12th verst of the Peterhof road, on a small hill, there is still an old country house with columns and a dome. The country estate was built in the mid-70s. 18th century for the President of the Admiralty Collegiums Ivan Grigorievich Chernyshev. The site where the palace was erected is the western part of the former dacha of Princess Natalya Alekseevna. Previously, the first Travel Palace of Peter I on the Peterhof tract was located here. In 1718, this place was granted to the senator and diplomat Pyotr Andreyevich Tolstoy for the successful operation to return Tsarevich Alexei from abroad. In 1721, a manor house was erected on the site. In a fairly short period of time, the dacha changed several owners. In 1762, the real chamberlain Count Ivan Grigoryevich Chernyshev became the owner of the estate. Admiral General, President of the Admiralty Collegiums and a member of the Academy of Sciences, Chernyshev enjoyed the unlimited confidence of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna and the patronage of Catherine. He spent many years abroad and brought back a love of luxury and European taste. The country estate of Count I. G. Chernyshev "Alexandrino" on the Peterhof road is one of the most interesting monuments of Russian estate architecture of the second half of XVIII centuries. The monumentality and expressiveness of the palace determines its historical and artistic significance. The author of the project of the manor house is the architect J.-B. Vallin-Delamot. The estate was built according to the "estate scheme" common in Russian architecture of the 18th century. The central two-story building of the estate, square in plan, has eight ledges, framed by porticos of four columns of a composite order. This building was connected by two one-story passage galleries with symmetrical two-story side wings. In the center of the main building there was a magnificently decorated octagonal hall, illuminated by overhead light through wide semicircular windows that cut through the walls of an octagonal drum covered with a low dome. All park buildings are concentrated by the architect on three islands of a large pond located at the confluence of two streams that crossed the territory of the estate. In the late 1770s-early 1780s. a dacha belonging to Colonel G. M. Lyubestov was attached to the estate. In the early 1790s. the house was rebuilt: the belvedere was covered with a spherical dome, the round windows of its drum were turned into large semicircular ones. The triangular pediment crowned the portico instead of the liquidated balcony. At the same time, the interiors of the central hall, the oval living room and the main staircase were re-finished. As a result of the restructuring, the author of which is considered by experts to be the architect G. Quarenghi, the building became a model of Russian classicism. The main vestibule was decorated with paintings in the style of classicism. The walls of the octagonal central hall are decorated on the lower floor with Corinthian columns placed in shallow niches. The entablature above the columns, encircling the walls of the hall, was topped by a balustrade of the bypass gallery on the second floor. The walls of the first and second tiers of the hall were decorated with decorative panels on mythological scenes, the inner surface of the dome was decorated with square caissons with rosettes. The author of the painting of the vestibule and the central hall, apparently, is one of the best painters-decorators of the first third of the 19th century. D. Scotty. Fragments of the painting survived until 1941. The decoration of the double-height gallery with semi-circular ends at the ends was also of considerable interest. It was located behind the octagonal hall, along the courtyard facade of the central building. The surface of the gallery walls was decorated in the first tier with Ionic pilasters and in the second with stucco caryatids. The country house of I. G. Chernyshev with its architectural appearance resembles the Tauride Palace. The dome of the mansion in the estate is close in silhouette to the dome of the palace built by the architect I. E. Starov for Prince G. A. Potemkin on the left bank of the Neva. Like the Tauride Palace, the central volume is highlighted here and its dominant role in the ensemble is skillfully emphasized. Travelers passing along the Peterhof road always admired the count's country house with admiration. Numerous guests left enthusiastic entries in their diaries after what they saw in the estate. In 1797, Count I. G. Chernyshev died, leaving his son Grigory Ivanovich not only an estate, but also a lot of debts. The young earl inherited from his father the habit of extravagance. In 1809, he was forced to sell the estate "at a public auction on promissory notes" to the merchant of the 1st guild Fyodor Ilyin. In 1898, the suburban dacha passed from the heirs of the merchant Ilyin to the owner of the Ulyanka estate, Count A.D. Sheremetev. It was then that the country estate began to be called "Alexandrino" for the first time. Under him, extensive construction work and the planning of the landscape park were carried out (architects N. L. Benois, K. F. Muller, and others). After the revolution of 1917, the unique estate turned into an ordinary residential building with communal apartments. The luxurious rooms and halls of the former palace were divided by the locals with partitions made of boards, and in the front octagonal hall, the residents of the “communal mansion” kept pigs and other livestock. During the Great Patriotic War, the Alexandrino dacha was a constant target for German gunners and pilots. The palace turned into ruins, the age-old relic oak grove in the park of this ancient estate almost completely died. In the 1960s the main building of "Alexandrino" was restored and restored according to the project of the architect M. N. Plotnikov, but without recreating the unique interiors and outbuildings. To this day, work is underway to reconstruct the park. A wonderful Russian tradition to introduce children to early age To fine arts was born in Petersburg. Under Catherine II in 1764, students of 5-6 years old began to be admitted to the Academy of Arts. Since 1980, the Alexandrino Children's Art School, founded in 1968, has been located in the former palace of Count Sheremetev.
(historical reference, placed on the facade of the estate, added rose-apple)
Since 1714, the dacha of the younger sister of Peter I, Natalia Alekseevna, was located here.
In 1746, the dacha was granted to the head of the gentry cadet corps V. N. Repnin. In 1762, his son sold the estate to I. G. Chernyshev, the president of the Admiralty College. By his order, arch. J.-B. Wallin-Delamot is building a new stone building in the classicist style.
In 1898 A. D. Sheremetev bought the dacha and it became known as "Alexandrino". Under the new owner, the interiors were preserved.
The two-storey main building is decorated with porticos with columns and a balcony. Symmetrical two-storey side wings are connected by glazed galleries to the main building.
In the 1960s the main building was restored - arch. MM. Plotnikov, without recreating the interiors and outbuildings.
Now there is a children's art school.
Alexandrino- one of the surviving estates in the area of the Peterhof road within the boundaries of St. Petersburg. Named after the last pre-revolutionary owner - A. D. Sheremetev.
IN early XVIII century, when plots along the road were distributed for building, on the site of the current park "Alexandrino" was a vast estate of the younger sister of Peter I, Tsarevna Natalia Alekseevna, which belonged to her since 1714. At the end of the 17th century. here were located the lands of two farms with the common name Pyatkelle. In 1716 the princess died and the plot was divided into two.
Manor on eastern section was preserved in the 1930s, but was subsequently destroyed. West Side of the former dacha of Princess Natalya Alekseevna was transferred to the senator, a major diplomat, former envoy in Constantinople, real Privy Councilor Peter Andreevich Tolstoy.
In the 1760s the owner was Ivan Grigorievich Chernyshev, a skilled diplomat who enjoyed the unlimited confidence of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna and the patronage of Catherine II. He commissioned the construction of his country house to the French architect J.-B. Wallen-Delamot, a representative of classicism new to Russia. This building has survived to this day.
After the revolution, the Alexandrino dacha palace became an ordinary residential building, with large rooms divided into “cells” by partitions, and pigs were kept in the hall. Along the eastern border of the park in the 1930s. "Standard settlement No. 3" was built.
During the war, the estate was at the forefront of defense and suffered from shelling. In the 1960s the main building was restored according to the project of M.M. Plotnikov, but without recreating the interiors and outbuildings.
The Alexandrino forest park is located in the south-west of St. Petersburg in the historical district of Ulyanka. It occupies as much as 103 hectares, and is located between Stachek and People's Militia Avenues, approximately in the middle it is divided into two parts by Veterans Avenue. Residents of the metro station "Prospekt Veteranov" have long called Alexandrino "forest". When they talk about where they live, they say "right in front of the forest", or "two stops behind the forest".
I remember very well the first time I visited Alexandrino. I think it was 1987, maybe '88. In the southern part of the park, there were some children's relay races orienteering. Despite the fact that it was the end of May, the air temperature was 4 degrees, and it was raining.
I visited the southern part of the park many times during my university years, my good friend lived next door. But in the northern part of the park, I visited for the first time quite recently. And again thanks to the Running City project. In contrast to the swampy southern part with clearing paths laid in Soviet times, in the northern part, firstly, the remains of a thoughtful landscape park are visible, and secondly, the old manor "Alexandrino" has been preserved.
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Manor Alexandrino
In the 18th century it was very prestigious to be the owner of the estate along the imperial Peterhof road. Peter the Great distributed these lands only to the closest people. The first owner of these places was his younger sister, Princess Natalya Alekseevna.The building that can now be seen in the park was built by the French architect J.-B. Wallen-Delamot for Count Ivan Grigorievich Chernyshev. The building of the estate is very similar to the Tauride Palace in St. Petersburg, but the Tauride Palace was built later and was designed by his French student - I.E. Starov. From other famous buildings in our city, Wallen-Delamot built the Gostiny Dvor. In general, it seems that he was one of those European architects who brought classicism to Russia. During the Great Patriotic War, the estate was on the very front line, it was about a kilometer away. It's hard to imagine, but Ligovo station was German for more than two years. Of course, the Alexandrino estate burned and was almost completely destroyed.
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The building was restored in the 60s of the last century. Not all master houses are so fortunate. But the interiors were not restored. Now in the estate there is a children's art school "Alexandrino".
I tried to enter it and see what's inside. I went in at half past ten in the morning on a weekday, and I was not welcome. At the entrance to a deserted building sat an elderly guard in a blue uniform, eating a bun with raisins. I didn’t have a pass, and I didn’t even have a passport. Therefore, I had to convince him for several minutes that nothing bad would happen if I came in for a minute and took a couple of photos.
Under the dome of the building there is a spacious bright hall in the shape of an eight-pointed star. Great place for exhibition hall, now the works of graduates of the art school are exhibited there. But the glass doors were locked and I couldn't get into the hall. The exhibition is open from 16:00 to 19:00.
Northern part of the park
The northern part of the Alexandrino forest park was once a landscape park, but in fact, nothing but a system of ponds remained from that park. Bridges are thrown across the river and channels connecting the ponds. Alexandrino, like other estates along the Peterhof road, stands at the top of the klint, the Baltic-Ladoga ledge, which stretches along the entire southern coast of the Gulf of Finland. Such a slope-clint also runs along the northern coast, it can be seen in Komarovo and Zelenogorsk. It seems to be the shore of the ancient sea. The Peterhof Grand Cascade stands just on this slope. Here in Alexandrino the ledge is quite low, at most 5-7 meters.Ulyanka was built up in the late 1960s. The suburban outlying area has turned almost into the center of the city. Around Alexandrino are "Khrushchev" and point "nine-story buildings". Nowadays, in all the “spots” that were not built up at that time, they are trying to stick new residential buildings. And from the east side, it seems, they even “climbed” a little into the territory of the park. In fact, living in such a new house near Alexandrino with a view of the bay from the window, it seems to me, is not a bad idea.
With sights, except for the estate in the forest park tight. Is that - "training ground" for service dogs.
South side of the park
The wet and swampy southern part of the forest park is cut through by numerous alleys.
There are very few people here on weekday mornings. Someone just walks, and someone plays football.
In the southwestern corner of the park there is a vocational school, probably now it is a lyceum. I have big doubts about the fact that even if this building stands for three hundred years, it will be considered an architectural monument.
To the east of the park, along the People's Militia Avenue, horticulture has survived. In the late 1950s, the workers and employees of Leningrad were given land for gardening. They gave 4 acres each, and it was forbidden to build capital buildings for living on this land, it was only possible to set up temporary huts and sheds for tools. These gardenings were given very close to the city, for example, here in Ulyanka. It was only later, at the end of the 70s, that horticulture appeared in Mshinskaya, Naziia and further everywhere, they began to give 6 acres each, and it was allowed to build dachas there.
Plots in gardening near Alexandrino were given from the Kirov plant, and it is called "Kirovets-1". Today it looks terrible. Crooked fences wrapped in barbed wire, dilapidated huts with broken windows. All this is covered with waist-deep snow. Some of these buildings are clearly inhabited by the homeless.
In the depths of the horticultural array one can see several cottages that look more decent. One of them is guarded by Caucasian Shepherd Dogs of a very intimidating appearance.
Several dozens of horticulture have been preserved on the territory of St. Petersburg. And, of course, the authorities intend to demolish them and build up these lands. The owners of the plots, for the most part, have registered the land as property, and now they are struggling to defend their rights.
The former fairly large land plot for summer cottages, which once belonged to the younger sister of Peter I Natalya, was divided into two parts in 1716. The senator, a well-known diplomat outside of Russia, a real secret adviser Pyotr Andreevich Tolstoy became the owner of its western part.
In the 60s of the 18th century, the president of the Admiralty Board, also a successful diplomat, Ivan Grigorievich Chernyshev, became the owner of this land. He commissioned the French architect Vallin-Delamote to develop a project for a country mansion. The magnificent building made of stone in the style of classicism (and at that time it was a new trend in Russia) was completed in 1746. Its main part resembles the Tauride Palace - the voluminous and solid central part is connected with two oblong outbuildings by long galleries diverging in opposite directions.
IN early XIX century, the merchant Ilyin became the next owner of the estate, and in the middle of the century the estate was bought by Count Sheremetev Dmitry Nikolaevich, who was the great-grandson of Field Marshal Sheremetev. In 1835 he was awarded the rank of captain of the Cavalier Guard Regiment, later he received the rank of adjutant wing, chamberlain and chamberlain at the Court of His Imperial Majesty. Being in the ranks and occupying one of the prominent and influential places among the courtiers, he owned a really huge fortune and several famous estates and palaces. The architects Benois and Muller were the developers of the project and the creators of the landscape park, which later began to bear the name of Aleksandrovsky in honor of its owner. The name Alexandrino also extended to the entire estate. Alexander Sheremetev became the last owner of the estate in the pre-revolutionary years.
After the Bolsheviks nationalized Aleksandrino, it turned into a residential building with communal apartments. Large rooms were partitioned off in order to populate as much as possible. large quantity of people. And they treated the main hall completely disrespectfully, organizing a subsidiary farm there - a shelter for pigs.
The above circumstances, as well as the bombing during the blockade of Leningrad and the location in close proximity to the front line, subjected the estate to destruction, almost destroying it.
In the 1960s, thanks to the restoration project of the architect Plotnikov, the main house of the estate and the park were restored, but the outbuildings and interiors were not restored. Today it houses an art school for children. The building is of artistic value as an example of classicism in architecture, as well as historical - including as a place where Catherine made a halt during her move to Peterhof.
