Herchik's estate

Two-storey mezzanine house-palace is a monument of late classicism with features of Palladianism. Strict exterior with porticoes of a large order on the main facades, if you compare it with "frozen music" - sounds solemn and even somewhat arrogant. Its bright features include round mezzanine windows, they successfully echo the arches of balcony niches.

A small, one-headed, cross-shaped church with a detached bell tower is also significant in architectural terms. The temple functioned until 1958, and for decades turned into ruins.

Memories of one “Smolensk nobleman” vividly paint the paintings of Gerchikov of the middle of the XIX century: “Gorchakovo was a very beautiful village, with a huge stone manor house and a stone church, at that time still new.” From church to house there was an alley of huge, magnificent chestnuts, and the house itself was surrounded by flower beds, greenhouses and a park down the hillside descending to a vast pond. From one of these hills a spring of beautiful, crystal-clear, and extraordinarily fresh and tasty water thundered inexhaustibly. The spring still exists today.

In 1914, Gerchikovo was bought by St. Petersburg sculptor V.A. Beklemeshev, whose works adorn St. Petersburg and suburbs: the monument to Maria Fedorovna in Pavlovsk, the doctor and public figure S. Botkin in St. Petersburg and others. However, Vladimir Alexandrovich was not long able to enjoy the charms of Gerchikov – after the October Revolution of 1917, the estate was nationalized, and the Trinity Church was closed. In the manor house until 1975 there was a school, and until 1995 - a children's summer health camp.

At the turn of the millennium, the old manor was abandoned. In 2009, the new owner began restoration work. In December 2010, the restored estate turned into a hotel.