Golitsyn estate in Dubrovitsa

The estate complex in Dubrovitsy near Moscow is interesting for us both as an architectural monument and as a place in the history of which the names of many famous noble families of Russia are closely intertwined.

Until the middle of the XVII century, Dubrovitsa belonged to the boyar Ivan Vasilyevich Morozov. His daughter Aksinya married Prince Ivan Andreevich Golitsyn. So Dubrovica became the possession of this name. In 1781, the estate was sold to Count Grigory Potemkin, and then, having changed its owners several times, again returned to the Golitsyns.

The manor palace was created in the first half of the XVIII century in the Baroque style. In the next century, the house was rebuilt in the spirit of classicism, and this is how we see it today. A large stone house of three floors with belvedere, balconies, terraces along the southern and northern walls and covered galleries rises on a small hill. At the corners of the palace square, in the past limited by an elegant forged grille, there are two one-storey wings. Luxury interior decoration, which delighted the guests of the estate, is now almost completely lost. The only exception is the Arms Hall, on the walls of which wonderful frescoes have been preserved.

Next to the estate is the Church of the Most Holy Mother of God, an outstanding architectural monument that has no direct analogues. The Baroque building is richly decorated with carvings, stone sculptures and crowned not with a traditional dome, but with a forged crown with a cross. With the construction of this temple, Peter I thanked the Almighty “for the anointing on the throne.”