The estates of the von derviz Sokha and Starozhilovo in the Ryazan region. Von Derviz estate in Kiritsy step: pay for tickets

In Ryazan, as in Moscow, there are a lot of traffic jams during rush hours, fortunately, their length cannot be compared with Moscow. Ryazan is only 180 km away, and Muscovites often come for one or two days. Traditional routes of stay: Konstantinovo (State Museum-Reserve of S.A. Yesenin) - Poshupovo (St. John the Theologian Monastery) - memorial museum-estate of Academician Pavlov and the Ryazan Kremlin (Ryazan Historical and Architectural Museum-Reserve).
But in the Ryazan region there are other, no less interesting places, albeit not so popular among tourists, today I want to tell you about one such place.

Kiritsy is a village located 50 kilometers southeast of Ryazan. The M5 highway runs nearby. The attraction of Kirits is the von Derviz Estate, this fairy-tale house is clearly visible from the highway, so you won’t be able to drive through without paying attention to it. Now the estate houses the Kiritsy Children's Tuberculosis Sanatorium, considered the best in the country, apparently this is no coincidence: Pavel von Derviz's daughter and son died of bone tuberculosis, such a twist of fate.
You can walk through and inspect the estate if you move from the direction of Ryazan in front of the ponds and turn left, you can leave your car in front of the barrier, and then walk further, despite the sign “No Trespassing”, no one is turning anyone away.
Is it worth going to Ryazan just because of the estate, probably not, but if you come to relax in our city and you have an extra three hours, go and see “Cinderella’s Palace”.

So, now about the history of the estate.
Von der Wiese is a Russian noble family of German origin. John Adolf came to St. Petersburg under Peter III and received the nobility with the particle “von-der”.
The bulk of the family fortune was earned on the construction of railways by Pavel von Derviz. He was called “Russian Monte Cristo”, he was an active state councilor. In addition to “earning money,” he was also involved in charity work: he built a children’s clinical hospital in Moscow in memory of his older children, as well as a lyceum in memory of Tsarevich Nicholas. Kiritsy were acquired by his son, Sergei Pavlovich, who loved music, poetry and other arts. The estate project was commissioned from the novice architect Fyodor Shekhtel.
In 1887-1889, in Kiritsy, Shekhtel built a miracle: a fairy-tale estate with a Palace, arches, stairs, descents to cascading ponds, a bridge of Love, grottoes with real corals, fountains, and statues of centaurs. But the construction of this miracle ruined Sergei: having sold his property, he and his family went to live in Paris. And then there was a revolution and, like all estates, Kiritsy was nationalized, and in 1938 a sanatorium was opened there for children suffering from tuberculosis, this saved the estate from ruin: in terms of preservation, it compares favorably with the von Derviz estates in Sokh and Starozhilovo, but the statues of centaurs turned into “Soviet” deer, bears and pioneers, the grottoes collapsed, the corals disappeared, the fountains dried up. But all the same, the estate is magnificent, and, of course, it could not help but become “overgrown” with legends.
The first of them is about the Bridge of Love, according to legend, the bridge was built by Sergei Pavlovich for walks with a local peasant woman, when he was tired of her love - the girl threw herself off the bridge, became a ghost and appears at the meeting place. The second legend is related to cinema - in Ryazan, many believe that it was in Kiritsy that “Cinderella” was filmed (meaning the 1947 film, directed by Nadezhda Kosheverova and Mikhail Shapiro), but there is no documentary evidence of this."
And now the estate itself.

On the last day of our trip to Ryazan, the weather turned bad again, and instead of the planned farewell walk around the city, we decided to see the von Derviz estates in Kiritsy and Starozhilovo, 40 km from Ryazan.

These estates are quite unusual, and their history is closely intertwined with the fates of their founders. Therefore, I will begin my story with the von Derviz themselves.

Ryazan entrepreneur Pavel Grigorievich von Derviz (1826-1881) made a huge fortune in the construction of railways. In the 19th century, this business turned out to be incredibly profitable, especially if you doubled the cost of work, carried out fraud with capital and securities and have influential patrons. Having become one of the richest people in Russia, he owned real estate in Moscow and St. Petersburg, France and Switzerland.

But now we are not interested in Pavel Grigorievich himself, but in his children: Sergei, Pavel, Varvara, Andrei and Vladimir.

The eldest son of Pavel Grigorievich, Sergei Pavlovich von Derviz, was born in 1865. After his father's death, he received a rich inheritance, but his father's entrepreneurial spirit was not passed on to him. Occupying mainly representative positions, Sergei led an active social life, spending his father’s untold wealth.

Having acquired the Kiritsa estate, Sergei demolished the mirror factory, which was eking out a miserable existence, and built a luxurious estate in its place. For this purpose, a young architect Fyodor Osipovich Shekhtel was hired. And by the end of the 19th century, a fairy-tale castle grew on the banks of the Kiritsa River.

The estate was surrounded by a fence. On the vast territory there was a church and a horse yard, hanging bridges and grottoes.

Two majestic staircases descended from the palace to the lawn in a semicircle, next to which gazebos topped with tritons were located symmetrically.

There was a bizarre grotto built under the stairs, and a fountain flowed on the terrace in front of it. Then you could go down to the ponds and garden.

The main building of the estate was decorated with turrets with spiers and weather vanes. Glazed passages were built between the wings. The graceful balcony of one of the wings was supported by the mighty wings of an eagle.

The Bridge of Love was built across the ravine next to the mansion. According to legend, a girl, unrequitedly in love with Sergei, threw herself down from this bridge.

Sergei Pavlovich loved his estate very much and gladly came here every year for the whole summer. But, having gone bankrupt, after the death of his mother in 1908, he sold all his real estate and left Russia forever. He died in Cannes in 1943.

The estate stood abandoned until Soviet authorities They didn’t place a school here, and then a rest home.

Sergei's younger brothers and sister - Vladimir, Andrey and Varvara - did not live very long, they were struck by a serious illness - bone tuberculosis. Vladimir and Andrey died as infants, Varvara died at 16 years old. The father could not survive the loss of his children; he died immediately after the death of his beloved daughter.

And here is the irony of fate: in the Kiritsy estate, from 1938 to this day, there is a children's sanatorium where children with bone tuberculosis are treated.

Now let's move on to another brother of Sergei - Pavel Pavlovich von Derviz.

At the time of his father’s death, Pavel was 11 years old, and he inherited an estate in the village of Starozhilovo. Like his older brother, Pavel was a very wealthy man. He became interested in breeding elite horses and founded a stud farm in Starozhilovo, and, on the advice of his brother, he hired the same F.O. as an architect. Shekhtel.

Beginning in 1893, over six years, 12 buildings were built here, including an estate, a stud farm itself, a blacksmith shop, houses for workers and a church.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, several thousand horses were kept in the stables. Elite horses were bought abroad, trotters won races. At the Starozhilovsky plant, horses of the most prestigious breeds were bred for the Guards cavalry regiments.

In addition to horse breeding, Pavel had another hobby - mathematics. He passed the university exams for the entire mathematics course as an external student and began teaching at the gymnasium he founded.

During the First World War, Pavel patriotically changed his German surname, and, translating the word “Wiese” into Russian, became Pavel Pavlovich Lugovoi.

After the revolution, Pavel was arrested, he was released only thanks to a petition former students Gymnasium von Derviz. Lugovoy got a job as a teacher at the Ryazan cavalry command courses, which opened on the basis of the Starozhilovsky stud farm. One of his students was the future Marshal of Victory G.K. Zhukov.

But soon the courses were transferred to another place, Pavel Pavlovich and his family wandered from place to place and eventually settled in the Tver region. He worked as a mathematics teacher in a rural school; Pavel died in 1943.

And the stud farm founded by Pavel Pavlovich von Derviz still exists.

We had another interesting meeting in Starozhilovo. A small flock of turkeys with turkeys was grazing right on the asphalt. We are no longer surprised by chickens and geese, but we saw turkeys for the first time.

When we wanted to take a closer picture of the birds, a turkey moved out from the flock, puffed up, became twice as wide across itself and, hissing, headed towards us. He was so belligerent that we decided to go home :)

This concludes the story about the autumn trip. It was interesting for us, a little unusual - we didn’t go to many places, but we did a lot of fishing (though without much of a catch), rested and even got a little tan. The memories will last a long time :)

Thank you for your attention! And see you on new journeys! :)

And now more about this beautiful mansion...

Yes, this is really von Derviz’s mansion on Sadovo-Chernogryazskaya...

Last summer I already wrote a little about it (http://community.livejournal.com/moya_moskva/528696.html) and even posted photographs that I took in a hurry... Now I managed to visit it longer and try to capture the most beautiful parts of the interior... Unfortunately, I don’t yet have a wide-angle lens that would allow me to show general views of the rooms and halls, so due to limited space I had to be content with what I got... Let’s add to this the difficult shooting conditions and twilight. ..

I'll start with history...

I won’t go into the history of the “von derWies” family; I’ll start right away with the most famous - Pavel Grigorievich von DerWies (1826-1881). He was one of the first major figures in the field of railway construction.

Acting State Councilor. In 1847-57 he served in the Senate and the War Ministry in the Provisions Department. After retiring, he moved to Moscow, where he became secretary and member of the board of the Moscow-Saratov Railway Society. In 1863 he headed the board of the Moscow-Ryazan Railway Company and received a state concession for its construction on favorable terms. He lived in Moscow in the management house of the Ryazan-Kozlovskaya Railway on Kalanchevskaya Street. In 1868, having earned a multi-million dollar fortune, he retired from business, went abroad, lived in Nice and Lugano. In 1874-76 he founded and built in Moscow at his own expense the St. Vladimir Children's Hospital (in 1922 it was renamed Children's Clinical Hospital No. 2 named after I.V. Rusakov, since 1991 it has had the same name; Rubtsovsko-Dvortsovaya Street, 1/3).

sign in front of Iosifyan's offices. There's no one in it now

His son Sergei Pavlovich von Derviz (years of birth and death are unknown), actual state councilor, landowner, owner of the Inzer mine in the Urals. Leader of the nobility of the Spassky district of the Ryazan province. Since 1903, honorary trustee of the women's gymnasium named after V.P. von Derviz (together with his brother Pavel Pavlovich). Honorary member of the Moscow branch of the Russian Musical Society. Purchased an organ for the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory. From 1886 he lived in a mansion on Sadovaya-Chernogryazskaya Street (6).

Here is what is written about this house in the Encyclopedia of Moscow: Derviz House, Sadovaya-Chernogryazskaya, 6. Built for S.P. von Derviz in 1886 on the territory of the 18th century estate. The palace-type mansion stands at a significant distance from the street, in the front yard. Relatively small, the house is very impressive, which is achieved by using in its architecture compositional techniques and decorative details in the spirit of Italian Renaissance architecture, characteristic of one of the eclecticism trends, rare in Moscow. The central part of the building is highlighted by a projection with a large porch, on the sides of which there are ramps for entry. Lamps in the shape of female figures are placed on them. The facades are faced with granite and covered with large rustication with lion masks on the second floor. Above the heavy cornice are stands with flowerpots. Interior decoration (one of the most early works F.O. Shekhtel) is extremely representative - the gilded stucco of the walls and ceilings is combined with picturesque panels. In 1888-89, the building was enlarged with an extension (Shekhtel); in 1911-12, a high stone fence was installed along the street line (architect N.N. Chernetsov).

In 1904 S.P. von Derviz sells this mansion to the hereditary nobleman L.K. Zubalova, the son of a millionaire oil industrialist, owner of oil fields in Baku. And in 1911, on his instructions, a massive high fence was erected. According to one version, in order to hide from the curious glances of passers-by and street noise, according to another, frightened by the events of 1905, Zubalov left Moscow and, returning in 1909, asked the city government for permission to build a wall that would fence off his property from the street.

A very interesting "keyless" safe. Somehow it opens in a clever way

However, already in 1918, Zubalov’s wife, Olga Ivanovna, transferred this mansion to the Rumyantsev Museum and the house officially became a branch of the Rumyantsev Museum.

It should be noted that Iosifyan chose, perhaps, the most best room. Such an abundance of naked women can only be found in his office

In 1920, the building housed a special technical bureau of the VSNKh (Supreme Council National economy), and later NII-20. At the same time, the artistic beauty was not damaged. NII-20 was evacuated from Moscow in September 1941. And the building was transferred to VNIIEM, which was headed by A.G. Iosifyan from 1941 to 1993. The management of VNIIEM is still located in the house, the beauty of which is protected by the state.

Stained glass... As far as I know, some of them are currently being restored

Closet door

Women's busts made of wood along the edges of the sofa

Actually, the bust of Iosifyan himself...

A Pirsi carpet over 200 years old. Some Arab delegation, having seen the carpet, offered a lot of money for it...

Chandelier in the hall... Different everywhere...

And on the wall...

The most beautiful stained glass window with the family coat of arms of the von Derviz family on the flight of the main staircase

And this is a safe room. It is located in the right extension of the house. It is called a safe because of the powerful and heavy entrance doors and the same windows. Apparently, no one could get in.
And in the photo the only one left current black marble fireplace

Figures on the edges of the fireplace...

The von Derviz coat of arms can be found almost everywhere... In in this case on the fireplace

The main staircase is made of white marble. Leads to the second floor

Fireplace on the second floor. Plug with coat of arms

Ceiling

And this is the ceiling

Beautiful tapestries on the walls

Coat of arms on the staircase railing

Chandelier in the meeting room. Made from Bohemian crystal. During reconstructions, painters tried to steal the crystal pieces. Some are irretrievably lost

This is generally one of the most beautiful halls. Decorated walls and ceilings

Fireplace edge

Fireplace plug. There are no flat surfaces here

The most beautiful fireplace. Made from red marble

This was probably the ideal of a woman at that time.

And this is a tea room with an atrium. True, there is snow now and all the beauty is not visible

This is the sofa in front of the tea table

Marble table

Sofa with some Japanese motifs

Lanterns at the entrance. They can still be seen in the Soviet film "The Feast of St. Jorgen" of 1930

Griffons on the walls

Vases on the roof. The external decoration is much poorer

On our huge planet, every person has a special corner to which they want to return again and again. For me, this is the place, my small homeland, where I spent my childhood. And every time, making my little journey, I pass by the most beautiful architectural complex of the Ryazan region - the estate of Baron von Derviz.
The majestic structure amazes with its beauty: turrets, window openings, arches, stairs going down to the ponds - everything makes the estate look like a fairy tale come to life.
The palace was built in 1889. The design of the von Derviz estate in Kiritsy was developed by Fyodor Shekhtel, the brightest architect, founder of the “architectural modern” style, a Ryazan resident with German roots. Fyodor Shekhtel left a memory of himself throughout Russia, and the Von Derviz estate became one of the first objects where the famous architect was able to turn around and hone his ideas about beauty in practice. On Ryazan soil, in Kiritsy, he created an ensemble of amazing beauty, beyond all styles and at the same time stylish.
The asymmetrical two-story building was decorated with a portico, crowned with turrets and spiers. One wing of the building was connected to the main building by a glass gallery, and was also decorated with a balcony supported by the wings of a giant eagle. The other wing is equipped with ramps decorated with small sculptures. Two graceful staircases descended from the mansion into the ravine, connecting in a wide terrace. Down - to complex system ponds and an orchard - another staircase led away, and the path was decorated with grottoes made of wild stones and sculptural statues of centaurs. Thus, Schlechtel managed to gracefully fit the manor’s estate into the complex landscape. Nearby lies the famous Bridge of Love, illuminated by lanterns, and along the winding alleys you can walk to the Red Gate - two decorative turrets connected by an arched bridge.


Not everything has survived to this day, but what remains of its former luxury makes an indelible impression. The main part of the buildings, decorative elements of the facade and even the famous eagle survived.

The stone bridge across the ravine leading from the palace, along the main alley of the park, to the “Red Gate”, which is at the exit of the park to the Kiritsa River, has practically survived. Four white stone obelisks remained on the bridge, but were destroyedsculptures that decorated them.

The estate is surrounded by an interesting structure: a fence with turrets reminiscent of chess rooks or fabulous Gothic towers... But it’s better to see once than to hear a hundred times. Dear friends, visit Kiritsy and see this splendor with your own eyes. You will not regret!

In addition to the official history, the Von Derviz estate has several legends. The most romantic one is, of course, connected to the Bridge of Love. According to one version, the bridge was built by order of Sergei Pavlovich for secluded romantic walks with a local girl. She threw herself off him, suffering from unrequited love. Then the girl allegedly appeared in the form of a ghost at the same place of the fatal meetings. However, this story is most likely made up. Perhaps it is because of this that the Bridge of Love is sometimes called the Devil's Bridge.
Another legend is more modern in nature and is associated with cinema. According to her, it was in Kiritsy that the famous “Cinderella” was filmed. According to local historian Igor Kanaev, in the film “Cinderella” the king commands from the balcony of Shekhtel’s house in Kiritsy. And if this is so, then directors Nadezhda Kosheverova and Mikhail Shapiro very successfully chose the place for location filming - after all, the estate in Kiritsy is already a ready-made set for a fairy tale. And I was impressed by what I saw and made this video:

Having involuntarily become interested in the fate of this estate, I managed to find out some Interesting Facts from the life of its owners.

The Von Dervises appeared in Russia a very long time ago. Their ancestors were nobles, Ryazan landowners from a Russified German family that moved to Russia from Hamburg back in the 18th century. And their surname was the simplest - Wiese, without this noble prefix “von”. And this “background” with the indispensable article “der” appeared later, during the time of the Russian Emperor Peter III, who awarded the title of nobility to the head of thisof the family to Johann Adolf Wiese for his “diligent efforts” at the Justitz College.

This is how Russian nobles with the German surname von Derviz (Von-Derviz) appeared among us.

History has preserved the name of Pavel Grigorievich Von Derviz, a Ryazan entrepreneur who became famous throughout Russia for his successes in the construction of railways. The railway path brought Von Derviz a colossal fortune, and Pavel Grigorievich himself became one of the richest people in Russia. They began to call him the “Russian Monte Cristo.” He truly became one of the richest people in Russia. In addition to several estates in the Ryazan region, the family owned real estate in Moscow and St. Petersburg, France and Switzerland.

Success, happiness? Alas... The figure of Pavel Von-Derviz is notable for his entrepreneurial talent, luck, and... his tragedy. Fate, which seemed so favorable to him, suddenly hit him in the very heart, hit him where it hurt most. The children of Pavel Grigorievich Von-Derviz, one after another, were struck by a then little-studied, practically incurable and therefore terrible disease - bone tuberculosis. He tried to save them. He left everything and took them to France. He did everything possible and impossible to cure his children...

But it was not possible to save two children: the death of his son Vladimir crippled his father, and the death of his youngest daughter Varenka brought him to the grave - Pavel Grigorievich died of a heart attack when he saw the coffin with her body.

A significant part of Von Derviz's colossal fortune went to his eldest son, Sergei Pavlovich. Since childhood, Serezhenka was known as a sensitive and artistic person; he graduated from the Moscow Conservatory and enjoyed communicating with muses rather than with business partners. He spent most of the inheritance on the construction of a manor house in Kiritsy.

However, the Von Dervises did not have long to enjoy the masterpiece of architecture. Sergei Pavlovich quickly went bankrupt, abandoned the family business, and after his mother’s death he sold off the remains of his Ryazan property and left with his wife and daughter for Paris. In 1908, the estate passed to Prince Gorchakov, but he himself did not live in it, and the farm gradually fell into disrepair. Perhaps it was the constant absence of the owner that saved the estate from the massacre of the peasants.
After the revolution, the building first belonged to the agricultural school, then it was transferred to the local technical school, and then it became a recreation center. In 1938, a sanatorium for children... suffering from osteoarticular tuberculosis was opened in the mansion. An amazing coincidence of circumstances returned historical justice. Pavel Grigorievich Von Derviz, with whose money the fabulous estate was built, would probably be pleased.

His younger brother, the romantic Pavel Pavlovich, was a famous old-time horse breeder. Pavel Von-Derviz bred heavy draft horses, riding and trotting horses, including horses of the Arabian, English and Oryol breeds, which were purchased by the treasury for the regiments of the Russian Guards cavalry. He taught mathematics at the gymnasium he founded. The Ryazan Von-Dervisa gymnasium made its last graduation in 1919, when it was already in full swing in Russia Civil War, and Pavel Pavlovich himself by that time bore a different last name - Lugovoy.

He, like his father, passionately loved art - opera and painting. In his amateur theater he not only staged operas (Eugene Onegin and others), but also sang the main roles in them.

In 1919, with the arrival new government, “excesses” of all kinds began, but Pavel Pavlovich was warned of the danger by faithful old-timers, and he left his estate on foot. He ended up in Petrograd, but was arrested there and sent to Moscow, to Butyrka. He would have died, like many of his “class brothers,” but his students stood up for him before the authorities. The matter ended with Lenin himself writing him a kind of safe-conduct. And in 1920, he began giving lectures on mathematics at the Ryazan cavalry command courses, which then opened on the basis of his own stud farm. And one of the cadets, who listened to Pavel Pavlovich's lectures, was the future Soviet marshal and hero of the Great Patriotic War Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov...

However, nothing helped the patriot baron, who voluntarily gave up Soviet power all its property. Persecuted by the new authorities, the rural teacher Derviz-Lugovoy lived out his days in the Tver province.

Everything remained in the past - the state, estates, horse breeding, "Eugene Onegin" on the stage of the summer theater, and even the ringing name of von Derviz seemed to have sunk into oblivion. However, this did not happen. By some miracle, it was preserved in memory, books, archives, in the very building of the restored estate and returned to the current 21st century.

The mansion was built in 1886; The Ryazan architect Nikolai Mikhailovich Vishnevetsky, invited by von Derviz, designed it in the style of the Italian Renaissance.

The house is located in the depths of the property and is a two-story building with a projection in the central part, to which the front porch adjoins. Semicircular ramps lead to it on both sides, at the entrance to which large lamps made in the form of female figures are placed. The facades of the mansion are decorated with large rustication, the base is finished with granite, elements of Renaissance architecture are used in the design of the facades - double arches with columns at the corners of the building, stucco elements of the cornice and frieze. The partitions between the windows of the second floor are decorated with stucco lion masks; the frieze contains stucco images of dragons holding a shield with the letters SVD (Sergei von Derwies). The roof fence of the mansion is decorated with flowerpots.

Von Derviz invited a young talented architect to decorate the interiors of the mansion. The decorative decoration of the mansion created by Shekhtel is distinguished by luxury and sophistication; elements and motifs of different architectural styles- classical, oriental, gothic. Paintings and tapestries, stained glass windows, silk fabrics, wood carvings, finely crafted stucco decoration - all this makes the interior design of the house unique in its richness of decoration and stylistic diversity. It is worth noting that the original decoration of the mansion has been preserved almost completely, with the exception of some of the furniture.

The dining room and living room on the first floor are decorated with carved wooden panels; the ceiling of the dining room is decorated with painting - fruits on a golden background; The window glass is stained glass, like all the stained glass windows in the house, they are made according to Shekhtel’s original drawings.

The white main hall of the second floor is decorated in a classical style and decorated with gilded stucco details, in the center of the ceiling there is a picturesque lampshade. Another smaller lamp decorates the ceiling of the main marble staircase; tapestries with landscape scenes were used in the decoration of the walls of the upper landing; statues were placed in the niches on the stairs, which also served as lamps; The staircase is illuminated by a stained glass window depicting the coat of arms of the von Derviz family. The coffered ceiling of the first floor lobby, decorated in Gothic style, is decorated with carved wooden figurines of medieval men.

The oriental, or Chinese, living room is distinguished by its particularly refined decor, the walls of which are covered with silk fabrics with ornaments and decorated with painted wooden panels; The ceiling painting repeats stylized images of a Chinese dragon.

In one of the corner rooms of the second floor there was a winter garden, which was illuminated by a stained glass skylight and large stained glass windows.

Marble or wooden fireplaces were installed in all front and living rooms. Lamps made according to the author's drawings have also been preserved.

Belonged to German family von der Wiese, his ancestors settled in Russia under Peter III, and soon received hereditary nobility. His father, Pavel Grigorievich von Derviz, made a fortune in the construction of railways, did a lot of charity work, in particular, the children's hospital of St. Vladimir in Sokolniki. Sergei Pavlovich managed the family business he inherited, was also in the service of the Ministry of Justice, but showed much more inclination towards art - he played the piano (at one time he studied at the Moscow Conservatory) and composed music, wrote poetry, and was interested in theater. After the revolutionary events of 1905, von Derviz decided to leave Russia; he sold almost all of his possessions, including his Moscow mansion, and in 1908 he left for France, where he lived until his death in 1943.

The mansion was bought from him by oil industrialist Lev Zubalov, under whom a high stone fence was built in 1911, as a result of which the mansion was no longer visible from the street. The Zubalovs lived here until 1918, when they decided to donate the mansion to the Rumyantsev Museum, and a branch of the museum was briefly located here. Subsequently, the mansion was used for various needs; from 1941 to the present, VNIIEM is located here - the semi-closed Institute of Electromechanics, now part of the structure of the Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos). Access to the mansion is closed to everyone except institute employees.

The building is a cultural heritage site.