Usadba Grudinovka Photo: The Estate Grudinovka

Estate of count Tolstoy in the village Grudinovka was built at the turn of XVII-XIX centuries. In the center of a beautiful English Park with an area of 10 hectares is a manor house with a high dome with a spire. In the lobby you can walk up the main staircase. On the ground floor there was a parade and a ball-room, the second living rooms and offices. On the second floor there is an exit in two-storey semi-circular verandah.

The estate under Bicholim received a gift from Empress Catherine II, count Dmitry Tolstoy. He was very fond of Grudinovka and lovingly arranged his ancestral home, built not so much chic, how cozy, truly Russian manor house. Later, during the Napoleonic wars Dmitry Aleksandrovich became Governor of Mogilev. He bequeathed to bury him in his favorite Grudinovka, and completed his grateful descendants.

The last mistress of the manor was Alexandra G. Fat – philanthropist and enlightened woman, who built his own money Rizhkovskoye the hospital, which invited the best doctors. In 1905, the Countess became a member of Bykhov branch of the Red Cross organization. The Countess died in exile and was buried in Paris in 1925.

Unfortunately, in our time, the house and the Park are in poor condition. Despite the fact that the Park was granted the status of natural monument of Republican status in 1963, funds from the state for the recovery of garden and Park ensemble of the estate Grudinovka have not yet been found. However, even in this miserable condition, the manor is a unique monument of the Palace and Park art.

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