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Znamenskaya Church. Old Gostiny Dvor

Travel by public transport: from Moscow from the Rizhsky railway station to the station. Ustinovka, then by bus through Nudol to the stop. Vertkovo - 16 km, from there on foot 5 km.

Access by car: From Klin in the direction of Volokolamsk along a hundred-kilometer circle (A-108) to the village of Nudol. Drive through Nudol until the turn to the village of Vertkovo, through the village to the cowshed, where the asphalt road turns into a dirt road; along it for about 4 km. to V.-Soimonovo village, drive through the village. There is a church about 1 km away in the field. In dry weather, the road is passable even for a car with low ground clearance.

Once at the place, now designated only on a detailed kilometer map of the Moscow region as "Tract Teploe", there was large estate, the family nest of the Soimonov nobles. The estate was founded in the 18th century. Peter Alexandrovich Soimonov. Its main construction fell on the time of N.A. Soimonov, during which in 1797. Znamenskaya Church was built.

Znamenskaya Church - the only building that has survived in the former Teploe estate. From afar, not immediately noticeable deplorable state of the art a magnificent monument: slender and delicate, it rises above the trees surrounding it.

For the construction of the church, the then owner of the estate N.A. Soimonov invited the architect N.A. Lvov, who was building at about the same time in St. Petersburg on the Vyborg side of a dacha for P.A. Soymonov, his relative (the sons of F.I. Soimonov provided the young Lvov patronage). There is no documentary evidence that the project of the church was created by N.A. Lvov, but character traits until recently a well-preserved monument testifies in favor of its authorship.

The church is in the style of mature classicism, brick, using white stone, plastered. The one-apse double-height temple, ending with a low domed rotunda, is widened from the sides by two equal-sized side-chapels; two more chapels adjoin the refectory. The side chapels of the temple and the bell tower are decorated with high Tuscan porticoes with pediments. The upper cylindrical tiers of the bell tower are placed on the risalit of the western portico; the second tier is especially beautiful and expressive: with columns and high arched openings. The upper small tier is equipped with resonating holes.

Italian motifs are visible in all the decoration of the temple: arched three-part windows, stucco brackets. Unfortunately, the interiors of the temple are almost completely lost, only here and there you can discern the remains of an ancient painting in the "grisaille" technique and later paintings. The interior layout of the temple is very beautiful and elegant.

The temple gradually falls into complete disrepair: the roofs of the side chapels have collapsed, there are also holes in the central part of the roof, the door is somehow boarded up. The Soymonovs' estate itself perished in 1941, the village was demolished, and about one and a half kilometers to the nearest settlement - Vasilievsky-Soimonov. And about the restoration of one of the outstanding monuments of the Russian architecture XVIII century is not yet discussed.

Pushchino-on-Nare is the family estate of the Vyazemsky princes. Great architectural ensemble in the style of classicism was erected at the end of the 18th century, presumably according to the project of the outstanding architect N.A. Lvov. Pushchino-on-Nara is worthy of attention not only for the preserved fragments of the main manor house with its magnificent Corinthian columns, but also for the amazing atmosphere of solitude and peace. In addition, at the sight of the state in which the house is located, it becomes clear that it is unlikely that it will stand for another hundred years, and we have a rare opportunity to see the monument "with our own eyes", and not in the picture.

The architectural dominant of the manor complex is a two-storey brick palace located on the main planning axis. It is a luxurious creation with a Greek portico under a low gable, with Italian arches in the basement and semicircular three-part windows. according to the original project, four rectangular wings were added to the house, to which porticoes with pediments were later added. The decor of the facade is replete with numerous elements, acacia bushes were planted around the front yard, courtyard decorated the fountain, and behind the park a wonderful view of the Naru River opened up.

The restructuring that the palace underwent in subsequent years had practically no effect on the appearance of the estate. However, the fact that it remains abandoned cannot cause optimism - the palace is gradually being destroyed, and there are not many old trees in the park. But in this fading beauty there is something elusive and completely unique, something that attracts many connoisseurs of beauty here.

Manor Turovo

The village of Turovo was included in tourist guides as the Artsybashevs' estate. At the beginning of the 19th century, it was bought by the Guard Captain A.D. Artsybashev, father of the future Decembrist Dmitry Artsybashev. Despite the fact that he did not take a direct part in the uprising on December 14, 1825, he was punished along with his associates. The Decembrist, who refused to kneel before the emperor, was sent as part of the Taman regiment to the Caucasus, where he took part in the Russian-Persian and Russian-Turkish wars.

To this day, only a small part of the monuments of classicism has survived in the Turovo estate. Among them, it is worth noting a one-story wing with a mezzanine decorated with a triangular pediment and a semicircular window with medallions. Sculptures were once located in specially laid out niches.

The manor buildings were surrounded by a beautiful park, the terraces of which sloped down the hillside. At the top of the hill, two linden alleys are planted perpendicular to each other. Only inexpressive fragments have survived from the main house, which testify to a later reconstruction.

Rai-Semyonovskoye Estate

The village of Semenovskoye for many years was the family estate of the Ordin-Nashchokin boyars. In the middle XVII century its owner was an outstanding diplomat A.L. Ordin-Nashchokin, famous for his progressive views. At the turn of the 18th-19th centuries, the estate passed to his descendant A.P. Nashchokin, the knight marshal of Paul I, who created a wonderful architectural ensemble in Semyonovsky and named it Paradise.

Of the surviving manor buildings, perhaps the least attention deserves main house, which was rebuilt several times and lost its original forms. The house was surrounded by a park, of which only a part has survived, as well as an alley leading to the house from the main gate. The main attraction of the estate is the Church of the Savior, built in 1771-1783. It is a magnificent structure crowned with a powerful rotunda with a hemispherical dome. A bell tower with a white stone spire is attached to the main volume. The outstanding architect M.F. Kazakov - he completed the interior design. The interior was decorated with multi-colored marble quarried in the vicinity.

Plunging into the history of the estate, it becomes clear why Nashchokin felt special pride in contemplating his estate. In addition to the fact that the Savior Church was considered one of the best among rural churches in Russia, he also decided to use the healing properties of local mineral springs... In 1803, Ordin-Nashchokin opened a hydropathic establishment in the estate, which became widely known. Unfortunately, the buildings of the resort have not survived to this day, and after the revolution the estate gradually fell into disrepair.

Estate Pushchino-on-Oka

The Pushchino-on-Oka estate is located not far from the center of the city of the same name, on the high bank of the Oka River. A three-storey house has survived from the estate complex, from which a once gorgeous staircase leads to the river. A linden alley leads to the house, and a swampy pond is preserved in an abandoned park. Despite rich history of this place, the estate is in complete desolation, so those who seek solitude and peace feel best here. While walking along the paths, there is a sad feeling that time is merciless even to a stone ...

The first owners of the Pushchino-on-Oka estate were the Artsybashevs family, who acquired it in 1799. At the end of the 19th century, the estate was bought by the famous tea merchant S.V. Perlov, who made a large-scale reconstruction and redesigned the main house in the neoclassical style. In subsequent years, the owners of the estate changed several times, among them were very famous surnames in the country. It is curious that not long ago the house was in quite good condition, and it was here that several historical films were filmed. But unfortunately, last years the manor is abandoned and on the verge of destruction.

Manor Vozdvyzhenskoe

The Vozdvizhenskoye estate, located a couple of kilometers from Serpukhov, is currently located on the territory of the Avangard Rest House. The history of this manor dates back to the 17th century, and several owners have changed over the course of several centuries. It should be noted that Vozdvizhenskoe at all times consisted of two separate estates, which were united only by a common name.

Once on the territory of the former manor, travelers first of all see large ponds separated by a dam. Of the surviving buildings, it is worth noting the Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, which was built in 1787. Now the temple, which gave the name to the whole estate, is destroyed, and its remaining part has been turned into a boiler room. The main manor house is in a dilapidated state. A small part of it has survived, which nevertheless allows us to characterize it as a one-story building, crowned in the central part with a wooden mezzanine with balconies. On one side, a greenhouse adjoined the house, and on all sides the house was surrounded by a park with ancient trees, which still looks very charming.

The Vasilievskoye Estate

The Vasilievskoye estate is of undoubted interest for everyone interested in Russian history, as well as for those who like to travel to old manors. Fragments of a typical noble estate have survived here: a cobblestone driveway, the remains of an old park, and a wooden St. Nicholas Church, built in 1689.

In 1692, the Russian scientist-geographer Fyodor Ivanovich Soimonov was born in the Vasilievskoye estate, who went down in the history of Russia as one of the first cartographers. Taking part in numerous military campaigns of the era of Peter the Great, Soimonov was actively involved in the compilation of cartographic materials, the study of the outskirts of the Russian Empire. He paid close attention not only to the issues of their research, but also to the problems of development. He made the first map of the Caspian Sea, was the author of the first Russian printed map, as well as an atlas Baltic Sea and other works.

At the end of the 17th century, the father of the future famous scientist in his estate initiated the construction of a wooden church. In 1689, the temple was consecrated in honor of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker. It is a small temple with a refectory and a faceted apse. At a later time, the church underwent reconstruction, which significantly distorted its original appearance. During the restoration work in 1969 and 1980, the temple was returned to its original appearance.

Estate Rozhdestveno-Telyateevo

The estate in the village of Telyatyevo, founded in the 17th century, is famous for the picturesque Church of the Nativity of Christ, built on the site of an older wooden church. In the 19th century, the estate belonged to the family of Counts Sollogubs, from which the famous Russian writer V.A. Sollogub was born. After the purchase of the estate, the new owners engaged in a serious restructuring of the manor house, and also became famous for their collection of art objects - European painting, graphics and sculpture, and bas-reliefs by Western and Russian masters.

The real pearl of the estate complex is the Church of the Nativity of Christ, the only building that has survived to this day. Erected in 1731 and enlarged with new chapels in 1855 and 1912, it has become a fine example of the Baroque. The temple is a pillarless, cruciform building with a semicircular altar ledge. Above the spherical dome rises an octahedral drum topped with a cupola. The decorative decoration of the facades is rather restrained and does not abound in numerous elements. The architectural composition is complemented by a three-tiered bell tower.

After the revolution, the Rozhdestveno-Telyatievo estate, like the rest of the noble estates, was destroyed, and some buildings were transferred to the state farm. The magnificent art collections of the former owners became the property of the state, and part of the property was lost.

Estate Podmoklovo

The Podmoklovo estate is located approximately two kilometers south of Serpukhov. Pearl architectural complex the estate is the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin. Built in 1714-1722 on the initiative of the owner of the estate, Prince Grigory Fedorovich Dolgorukov, it became a vivid example of the Italian Baroque.

The uniqueness of this temple lies in the fact that it is made in the form of a so-called double-height domed rotunda. The lower tier is an arched gallery, which on the second tier acts as a balcony decorated with sculptures. The magnificent architectural decoration complements the Ionic order of the gallery supports, as well as the neat relief of cornices and other elements. The presence of sculptures of angels and evangelists is an amazing example in Russian architecture of that time, because when the temple was being built, the Synod categorically forbade the use of such elements. And the rotundal form of the temple was quite rare in Russia.

At the beginning of the 19th century, a bell tower and a stone fence were built near the temple, but these buildings, like the manor house, have not survived to this day. The only exception was, perhaps, the ruins of one of the wings. In 1970, some of the sculptures were removed from the gallery for restoration, but they never returned to their original place - they became part of the Serpukhovsky collection. art museum... In 1993, the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin was returned to the faithful.

Olga Avdeeva

... Leaky armenian .

Sight - deaths asks .

Who ? Fedka - Varnak .

I lie on straw ,

Kings not koryu .

Not you whether Soymonov ,

A life saved king ?...

AND every ravine

About then song sang :

how Fedka - Varnak

The Governor sat down ...

(MarinaTsvetaeva"Siberia")

We drive through the area of \u200b\u200bnew streets behind the Polygraph-Combine. We look at the signs and see: "Simonov Street".

- Do you live on Soymonov Street? Do you know something about him? - I ask the first local resident I meet.

- Simonov? No, I do not know! - answers, putting stress on the first syllable. Two mistakes at once. Correct: Soymonov. First, the "o" in the first syllable; secondly, the stress should fall on the second syllable. This is evidenced by all encyclopedias - both general and special (historical, geographical).

Not only a street in Chekhov was named after Soymonov (he was born and died in the Serpukhov district), but also a bay in the Caspian Sea, and also a cape in the Sea of \u200b\u200bOkhotsk, on east coast Sakhalin Islands. ***

Our countryman, Fedor Ivanovich Soimonov, was born in 1692 (or earlier - in 1682). Genealogists argue about his date of birth. He died on his estate in Volosov on July 11, 1780. He was buried in Serpukhov, in the Vysotsky monastery. Today his tombstone has been lost.

Why did Marina Tsvetaeva, abandoned by fate in Meudon, a suburb of Paris, thinking about Siberia, remember our fellow countryman? Hoped for a change in fate, which the staunch Soimonov experienced many times? Maybe. Unmerciful fate, indeed, threw him into terrible abysses, but he managed to rise from his knees. Imagine: a midshipman and a navigator, a traveler and a cartographer, a prosecutor and a convict, and then the governor of Siberia and a senator ...

Fyodor Ivanovich came from an old noble family, though not too rich. The Soymonovs owned several estates in the Serpukhov district - in Vasilievsky, Korovin, Volosov. The remains of the estate have survived, as far as I know, only in Vasilievsky. There we can admire the only preserved in the Moscow region wooden church, built in honor of Nicholas the Wonderworker in 1689 by the grandfather of our hero, stolnik Afanasy Soimonov.

Our hero received an excellent home education for those times: from childhood he knew Latin, studied European languages. At the age of 16 he entered the Moscow navigation school founded by Peter I. He fell in love with mathematics: he was a student of Leonid Magnitsky, the author of the famous textbook of arithmetic.

In 1712, Soimonov was promoted to midshipman. The word is euphonic, but forgotten. We heard it after the film "Midshipmen, forward!" But what a midshipman is, we still don't really know. In Peter's times, midshipmen served in the navy in the position of "lower ranks", non-commissioned officers.

The emperor sent midshipman Soymonov abroad for two years - to Gol-

landiy (26 people went with him, including his compatriot from Sadkov, Pyotr Eropkin). By the end of the trip, Soimonov had mastered seamanship to perfection. Returning to his homeland in 1715, Soimonov, in the presence of the emperor, passed the exam for a midshipman and got on the cannon ship "Ingermanland", which had just been built according to the drawings of the king himself. It was the favorite ship of Peter I. The emperor knew every officer on it personally, which helped the successful career of the intelligent Soimonov.

Fyodor Ivanovich took part in sea battles against the Swedes during the Northern War. And then in 1719, on behalf of the emperor, he went south to take part in a secret expedition exploring the shores of the Caspian Sea. There he met with people who played a huge role in his life - captain Vasily Myatlev and the governor of Astrakhan Artemy Volynsky.

Soimonov prepared and issued the first Russian printed map of the Caspian (1720), an atlas and sailing directions (1731), as well as "Description of the Caspian Sea" (1728, 1763). For the first time, reliable outlines were given on the map of Soymonov coastline: the sea used to be considered much larger than it actually was. Immediately after the completion of the work, Soymonov's map was published and, as a scientific novelty, was presented by Peter at the Paris Academy of Sciences and at the Royal Society in London. Compiled by Soimonov and an atlas of the Baltic Sea, and then a description of Bely (this work of his has been lost).

After the death of the emperor, Soimonov was not lost. Serious diplomatic missions were entrusted to him. For example, he negotiated with the Khan of the Kalmyk Horde, Dunduk. The Kalmyks who roamed around Astrakhan and Tsaritsyn intended to cross the Kuban. Soimonov made sure that the khan recognized himself as a vassal of the empress and sent 10 thousand Kalmyks to the Russian army.

At the age of 39, the traveler finally found a home and family in St. Petersburg. He took the post of prosecutor of the Admiralty Collegium, which gave him the opportunity not to part with his wife and children. From now on, Soymonov's task was to fight high-ranking embezzlers. "Without

i tried to fulfill my duties under any fear, ”he recalled. Many then lost their positions and fortunes. Among those whom he exposed was, in particular, the Irkutsk vice-governor, who robbed his subordinates and the state treasury no worse than robbers. ***

Enemies Soymonov amassed plenty, but his friends killed him. Artemy Volynsky, who made a dizzying career in St. Petersburg (he became a cabinet minister), fought Biron, the favorite of Empress Anna Ioannovna. And he lost. In April 1740, Volynsky and the people of his entourage (among them - the chief architect of St. Petersburg Pyotr Eropkin and the prosecutor Fyodor Soimonov) were arrested, an investigation began. After torture, everyone confessed to treason - the "search" was over. Volynsky, as "the main villain", should have been "impaled alive, having cut out his tongue first." Eropkin and Soymonov were sentenced to quartering. This meant that the executioner would first cut off both their arms, then both legs, and only after that the head. This is how Stepan Razin was executed in due time. However, Empress Anna Ioannovna "showed mercy" and softened the fate of the convicted by her decree.

June 27, 1740 on the Sytny market square near Peter and Paul Fortress they quartered Volynsky. Eropkin's head was cut off. Soymonov was beaten with a whip "mercilessly" and sent to the Okhotsk prison for eternal hard labor. The nobleman Fyodor Ivanovich Soimonov passed away, became Fedka-varnak (that is, a convict), doomed to cook salt for the rest of his life.

Life is changing rapidly. Two months later, Empress Anna Ioannovna died of childbirth. Now Biron went into exile. Soymonov's wife tirelessly tried to mitigate her husband's fate in front of the "Braunsch-Weig family", and after another coup in front of Empress Elizabeth. A year later, a corporal was sent to the Okhotsk prison to take Soimonov from there. But no one in Okhotsk could tell where the convict was. They were looking for him for several months. The desperate corporal was about to

return to the capital, when suddenly one of the women remembered Fedka-varnak. The gray-haired old man burst into tears and admitted that "before he was called Fyodor Soimonov, and now he is the unfortunate Fyodor Ivanov." This was the Jesuit practice of the secret office: a person lost not only freedom, but also his name. The corporal embraced Varnak, saying: "The Empress Elizabeth forgives you!" ***

Soymonov was returned property, but not positions and ranks. He had to forget about the service and forever retire to his village. This happened with everyone who returned from exile. Therefore, Yeropkin was not remembered for so long, and his projects were attributed to other architects. For 11 years Soimonov lived in Volosov, completely devoting himself to scientific works.

Soymonov's life was changed by Vasily Myatlev, an old naval comrade. He was appointed governor of Siberia and offered Soymonov to lead the Kamchatka expedition. An experienced cartographer compiled numerous atlases, maps and descriptions, explored new routes and places for settlements. And there was an unexpected turn of fate: when the Seven Years' War began, Myatlev was recalled to the fleet and Soymonov was appointed in his place! On March 14, 1757, exactly 15 years after returning from exile, the former convict turned into the governor of Siberia.

The 65-year-old governor drew on his experience in fighting bribes and embezzlement and put things in order. In Tobolsk, Gostiny Dvor was repaired. He opened a geodetic school in Tomsk. He built a lighthouse on Lake Baikal. Conducted a census of foreigners. Populated the banks of the Amur. He made peace with the warlike Chukchi. In the article "An ancient proverb - Siberia is a gold mine", he made the first attempt at the economic study of Siberia. He became one of the organizers of the voyages of merchants in Pacific... But, above all, the governor changed the procedure for considering complaints: from now on, cases not related to insulting the sovereign were considered without red tape. It is said that Governor Soimonov rarely used corporal punishment, saying: "I myself have experienced what a whip is!"

The Siberians loved and respected their governor; Empress Catherine II had him in good standing. His son, Mikhail Fedorovich Soimonov, was very attached to his father and specially went to serve in Siberia. Later M.F. Soimonov played a prominent role in the development of mining in Russia.

Only in 1766 (Fyodor Ivanovich was over 70) Senator Soimonov retired with the rank of actual privy councilor, which, according to the "table of ranks", corresponded to a full admiral or general-in-chief. He returned to his estate in Volosov. He came to Moscow for scientific purposes to talk with the historian Miller or to argue with Lomonosov (under his influence, Lomonosov sent an expedition to Svalbard). The famous writer and publisher of the 18th century N.I. Novikov then wrote about Soimonov as "a learned husband, skilled in Latin, German, Dutch, as well as in astronomy, physics and other sciences." In the last years of his life, Soimonov worked in Volosov on "The History of Peter the Great" and memoirs, which were later published by his great-grandson.


The ensemble of the classic estate on Malaya Dmitrovka took shape during the second half of the 18th - 19th centuries. The main manor house is located in the depths of the site; two symmetrically standing outbuildings, connected to the house by arched passages, face the red line of the street. With its elegant Doric portico, the house is turned into a courdoner, separated from the street by a fence with a gate. The main house is based on chambers from the middle of the 18th century, rebuilt into a classic manor house in the 1780s, presumably according to the project of the architect Nikolai Alexandrovich Lvov.

In the first half of the 19th century, the estate was owned by the landowner Alexander Nikolaevich Soimonov, nephew of the State Secretary of Empress Catherine II, Peter Alexandrovich Soimonov. The well-known writer, poet and bibliophile Sergei Alexandrovich Sobolevsky, the illegitimate son of A.N. Soymonov (the father "for a significant donation" attributed his son to the Polish noble family of the Sobolevskys).

Sobolevsky was known as a collector of rare books, bibliographer, expert in many languages, journalist, and also as the author of caustic epigrams ("an unknown writer of well-known epigrams"). He was a close friend of Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin, who probably also visited the estate on Malaya Dmitrovka. He met Pushkin when he was 15 years old, and this acquaintance quickly grew into a strong friendship. Sobolevsky was Pushkin's literary advisor, helped the poet to publish his works, brought him new books from abroad (including the works of Adam Mitskevich that were banned in Russia); several times he saved Pushkin from duel fights, acting as a peacemaker. According to many, Sobolevsky was the only one who could have prevented Pushkin's fatal duel with Dantes, but "unfortunately, Sobolevsky lived in Europe that year." After the death of Pushkin, he sought financial assistance for his family, then was engaged in the publication of Pushkin's letters and materials for his biography.

Sobolevsky also communicated and was friends with Evgeny Baratynsky, Dmitry Venevitinov, Pyotr Kireevsky, Vladimir Odoevsky and others, as well as with representatives of the younger generation of writers - Nikolai Gogol, Ivan Turgenev, Leo Tolstoy.

In the 1820s, Mikhail Fotievich Mitkov, who was Soimonov's nephew, also lived in the estate. War hero of 1812, participant in the capture of Paris in 1814, colonel, he later became an active member of the Northern Secret Society; here, in his apartment, some meetings of the future Decembrists took place. After the suppression of the uprising on Senate Square, Mitkov was arrested and sentenced by the court to hard labor. He was exiled to Siberia, where, after leaving hard labor, he settled in Krasnoyarsk and studied meteorology until his death in 1849.

In the 1850s, the estate on Dmitrovka passed to a new mistress - the wife of the guard captain V.D. Ladyzhenskaya. Under her, the facades of the manor were somewhat altered, in particular the Tuscan portico of the main house was replaced with a Doric one. In the 1870s, under the new owner, the provincial secretary A.V. Kanshin, the front interiors of the main house were partially redesigned and redesigned by the architect August Weber.

In the Soviet years, the estate was given over for administrative purposes, here for many decades the Sverdlovsk District Committee of the CPSU was located.

In the 2000s, a scientific restoration of the estate was carried out. In the main house, the interior decoration of the interiors of the 19th century was restored - front suite premises of the first and second floors with stucco decoration of interiors, painting of walls and ceilings (including the "Pompeian" painting of the main staircase), artificial marble pilasters, wood panels, stoves and marble fireplaces, parquet floors.

Currently, the manor houses offices.


































The ensemble of the classic estate on Malaya Dmitrovka took shape during the second half of the 18th - 19th centuries.

The main manor house is located in the depths of the site; two symmetrically standing outbuildings, connected to the house by arched passages, face the red line of the street. With its elegant Doric portico, the house is turned into a courdoner, separated from the street by a fence with a gate. At the heart of the main house are chambers from the mid-18th century, rebuilt into a classic manor house in the 1780s, presumably by the project of the architect Nikolai Alexandrovich Lvov.

In the first half of the 19th century, the estate was owned by the landowner Alexander Nikolaevich Soimonov, nephew of the State Secretary of Empress Catherine II, Peter Alexandrovich Soimonov. The well-known writer, poet and bibliophile Sergei Alexandrovich Sobolevsky, the illegitimate son of A.N. Soymonov (the father "for a significant donation" attributed his son to the Polish noble family of the Sobolevskys).

Sobolevsky was known as a collector of rare books, bibliographer, expert in many languages, journalist, and also as the author of caustic epigrams ("an unknown writer of well-known epigrams"). He was a close friend of Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin, who probably also visited the estate on Malaya Dmitrovka. He met Pushkin when he was 15 years old, and this acquaintance quickly grew into a strong friendship. Sobolevsky was Pushkin's literary advisor, helped the poet to publish his works, brought him new books from abroad (including the works of Adam Mitskevich that were banned in Russia); several times he saved Pushkin from duel fights, acting as a peacemaker. According to many, Sobolevsky was the only one who could have prevented Pushkin's fatal duel with Dantes, but "unfortunately, Sobolevsky lived in Europe that year." After the death of Pushkin, he sought financial assistance for his family, then was engaged in the publication of Pushkin's letters and materials for his biography.

Sobolevsky also communicated and was friends with Yevgeny Baratynsky, Peter Kireevsky, Vladimir Odoevsky and others, as well as with representatives of the younger generation of writers - Nikolai Gogol, Ivan Turgenev, Leo Tolstoy.

In the 1820s, Mikhail Fotievich Mitkov, who was Soymonov's nephew, also lived in the estate. War hero of 1812, participant in the capture of Paris in 1814, colonel, he later became an active member of the Northern Secret Society; here, in his apartment, some meetings of the future Decembrists took place. After the suppression of the uprising on Senate Square, Mitkov was arrested and sentenced to hard labor by the court. He was exiled to Siberia, where, after leaving hard labor, he settled in Krasnoyarsk and studied meteorology until his death in 1849.

In the 1850s, the estate on Dmitrovka passed to a new mistress - the wife of the guard captain V.D. Ladyzhenskaya. Under her, the facades of the manor were somewhat altered, in particular the Tuscan portico of the main house was replaced with a Doric one. In the 1870s, under the new owner, the provincial secretary A.V. Kanshin, the main interiors of the main house were partially redesigned and redesigned by the architect August Weber.

In the Soviet years, the estate was given over for administrative purposes, here for many decades the Sverdlovsk District Committee of the CPSU was located.

In the 2000s, a scientific restoration of the estate was carried out. In the main house, the interior decoration of the 19th century interiors was restored and restored - the front suite of premises on the first and second floors with stucco decoration of the interiors, painting of walls and ceilings (including the "Pompeian" painting of the main staircase), artificial marble pilasters, wood panels, stoves, etc. marble fireplaces, parquet floors.

Currently, the manor houses offices.