Memorial House-Museum-Estate of N.E. Zhukovsky

The Zhukovsky Memorial House was founded in 1937 in the house in which in 1847 the genius of world science, the founder of theoretical, experimental and practical aerodynamics, the "father of Russian aviation" N.E. Zhukovsky was born on January 17. In Orekhovo passed the childhood of the scientist, he came here throughout his life. The roots of the estate go to the beginning of the XVII century. In 1621, Mikhail Romanov granted Vasily Petrovich Vsevolozhsky, the son of the Patriarch of All Russia Hermogenes, a wasteland, where the manor manor with a villager was founded. The property was passed down from generation to generation. In 1841, the estate was bought by the parents of N.E. Zhukovsky in installments: lands of 112 hectares, 56 serf souls, a park, ponds, sundials. Currently, the estate has an area of 12 hectares. 3 km from Orekhov is the necropolis of Vsevolozhsky and Zhukovsky.