Manor Grudinovka description and photo - Belarus: Mogilev region (Topic)

Grudinovka estate description and photo - Belarus: Mogilev region. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photos and a map showing the nearest significant objects.

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The estate of the Tolstoy counts in the village of Grudinovka was built at the turn of the 17th-19th centuries. In the center of a magnificent 10-hectare English park, there is a manor house with a high dome with a spire. The lobby was accessed by the main staircase. On the first floor there were ceremonial and ballrooms, on the second there were living rooms and study rooms. On the second floor there is an exit to a two-storey semicircular veranda.

Count Dmitry Alexandrovich Tolstoy received the estate near Bykhov as a gift from Empress Catherine II. He was very fond of Grudinovka and lovingly arranged his ancestral nest, building not so much a chic as a cozy, truly Russian noble house. Later, during the Napoleonic War, Dmitry Alexandrovich became the governor of Mogilev. He bequeathed to bury himself in his beloved Grudinovka, which was done by his grateful descendants.

The last owner of the estate was Alexandra Grigorievna Tolstaya, a philanthropist and an enlightened woman who built the Ryzhkovskaya hospital with her own money, to which she invited the best doctors. In 1905, the Countess became a member of the Bykhov branch of the Red Cross. The Countess died in a foreign land and was buried in Paris in 1925.

Unfortunately, in our time, the house and park are in disrepair. Despite the fact that the park was given the status of a natural monument of republican significance back in 1963, the state has not yet found funds to restore the garden and park ensemble of the Grudinovka estate. However, even in such a deplorable state,

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