Tabolovo Manor

The history of the Tabolovo estate began in the XVII century, when the lands were owned by the boyars Morozov. Later, ownership of the village passed to Apraksin, who built a stone Assumption Church in the village in 1705-1715, and in the second half of the XVIII century the owners of the estate with a wooden house and a regular garden were Prince Trubetsky. Then the collegiate adviser Melgunov, and finally the last owner was the merchant Gavrilov.

It was the Gavrilovs who constantly ennobled and equipped the estate. To the events of the Great Revolution on the estate as a whole, three 2-storey cottages, a stone barn, a barn for 30 heads, two stables, a barn for a significant number of vehicles of that time, a laundry room, a bathhouse, a milk shed, 2 stone sheds, several sheds for storing hay, a gardener's apartment, a greenhouse were built. Unfortunately, today most of the buildings, including the master’s house of the once picturesque estate, have not survived. The layout of the estate is also lost.

The main attraction, undoubtedly, is the church complex of white stone, built under Apraksin, including the Assumption Church and the gate bell tower, visual monuments of the turn of the eras and the mixing of several architectural trends of Russian architecture. Here and European Baroque, and the layout of the XVI-XVII centuries, and Peter's Baroque, and "Naryshkin" style of temple construction with original and very high-quality details. Currently, the church ensemble is active.

It is preserved in the Tablovo estate and once a luxurious pine park with ponds. True, now very feral and overgrown. And you can also see the remains of the former economic complex.

It is worth noting that the Tabolovo estate is inextricably linked with the family of the famous classic of Russian literature - A.P. Chekhov, since the father of the great writer and both his cousins served in the trading house of the Moscow merchant Gavrilov, the last owner of the estate. And there is every reason to believe that Chekhov has repeatedly visited Tabolov. They say he even wanted to marry Gavrilov’s daughter. But, alas, it didn't.