Olgovo Estate

Olgovo Estate is an old estate of Count Apraksin, located in Dmitrovsky district of Moscow region. The architectural monument of the XVIII-XIX centuries is popular with history buffs. Despite the fact that the estate is in a dilapidated state, many travelers come here. Especially many guests come to Olgovo in summer and early fall. Tourists go to these places to see old buildings and picturesque ruins, walk on the hills of the Klin-Dmitrovskaya ridge and admire the green park with ponds.

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Video: Olgovo Estate

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With the help of the building diagram installed in the park, visitors to the Olgovo estate can easily orient themselves on the ground. The ruined main house has northern and southern wings. From the Apraksins’ possessions there is a horse yard where they raised Orlov trotters, office wings, a small tower built in pseudo-Gothic style.

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Apart from the manor itself, there is a well restored Vvedenskaya church in the village. Nowadays, some of the manor buildings are occupied by a boarding house, some buildings have been turned into warehouses, and one of them houses a post office.

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More recently, the manor began to be restored. Restored one of the obelisks standing at the entrance to the former Apraksin properties. The main house is still a solid ruin, but around it they installed information stands telling about the history of the Olgovo estate.

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The gallery that leads to the building of the Apraksin fortress theater was added one floor. The theater building itself, which is the northern wing of the manor, is draped in cloth. In front of it, one can see billboards with information about the Olginsky Theater.

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History of the Olgovo estate

Until 1820 the village was called L’govo, and in the 16th century it was listed as a palace department. At the beginning of the XVII century, L’govo was granted as a fiefdom to Fyodor Vasilievich Chaplin, who served as a voivode in Dmitrov.

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Since 1740 the village was owned by the Apraksin nobles. The main estate buildings appeared here at the end of the XVIII – first half of the XIX century under the Smolensk military governor Stepan Stepanovich Apraksin. He commissioned the Moscow architect Francesco Camporesi to build the estate. In addition to L’govo, Camporesi worked on another Apraksin estate. At the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, he erected a beautiful church of the Ascension in Peremilovo near Moscow.

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The Olgovo estate was built in the style of classicism. The entrance to the main house was decorated with a six-column portico, and the architect decorated two large halls and rooms inside the estate in the Empire style. In the 1880s the old estate needed reconstruction. V. N. Nabokov was engaged in the reconstruction works. In 1915, the Apraksins sold their property to Count A. A. Ignatiev, who served as military attaché in France.

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When there was a revolution in the country, the estate was nationalized. Until 1926, the old buildings housed a museum of noble life, exhibits of which were household items taken from other noble estates. In the 1930s, the buildings were adapted for a pioneer camp and boarding house.

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How to get there

The Olgovo estate is located north of Moscow, between Dmitrov and Solnechnogorsk, 13.5 km west of Yakhroma station of the Savelovsky railroad. Tourists get to the estate by car along the Dmitrov highway, after Yakhroma making a turn to Olgovo. You can also leave Moscow along the Rogachev highway and turn to Olgovo behind the village of Fedorovka.

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Travelers who use public transport, from Savelovsky station by train to Dmitrov, and from there change to a bus to Podyachevo. Get off at the stop “Olgovo village.”

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