Vasilievskoye Manor

Vasilievskoye Estate is of undoubted interest to all interested in Russian history, as well as for lovers of traveling through ancient estates. Here are preserved fragments of a typical noble estate: a cobbled driveway, the remains of an ancient park, as well as a wooden Nikolsky temple, built in 1689.

In 1692, a Russian scientist-geographer Fyodor Ivanovich Soimonov was born in the Vasilievskoye estate, who entered the history of Russia as one of the first cartographers. Soimonov, who took part in numerous military campaigns of the era of Peter the Great, was actively engaged in compiling cartographic materials, studying the outskirts of the Russian Empire. He paid close attention not only to their research, but also to development problems. He compiled the first map of the Caspian Sea, was the author of the first Russian printed map, as well as the Atlas of the Baltic Sea and other works.

At the end of the XVII century, the father of the future famous scientist in his estate initiated the construction of a wooden temple. In 1689 the temple was consecrated in honor of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker. It is a small temple with a refectory and faceted apse. At a later time, the church underwent restructurings that significantly distorted its original appearance. During the restoration works of 1969 and 1980-ies the temple was returned to its original appearance.