Manor Belskoye Ustje

Manor Belskoye Ustye is located in the Pskov region, near the village of Kholomki and is a large noble estate of Kozhins - Novosiltsev, built in the XVIII century. The estate once had a beautiful park, a large family church near the ancient cemetery, a wooden house on a hill by the river.

To this day, only the three-chair church in the style of strict classicism has survived, built in the name of the Ascension of the Lord, the Apostle Peter and the martyr Natalia and the Nativity of the Virgin. At different times, the estate was visited and worked there by such famous personalities as K.I. Chukovsky, E.I. Zamyatin, M.M. Zoshchenko and others. From 1944 to 1949 on the territory of the estate there was an orphanage, which sheltered many children from different cities of Russia.

Also in the Belsky Ustya is the grave of Professor A.G. Gagarin, one of the founders of the St. Petersburg (Leningrad) Polytechnic Institute, who lived in the XX century.