Journey to the New Animal

Village Zhivotinnoye, which appeared at the turn of the XVI and XVII centuries and was granted Terenty Venevitinov - ataman of the fortress Venev near Tula. At the end of the XVII century, in the vicinity of Zhivotinny, the village of Novozhyvotinnoye was founded and the barry choirs were built, the former village began to be called Starozhivotynny. When the construction of the fleet began at the Voronezh shipyard, Tsar Peter appointed Venevitinov as the caretaker of ship forests. Under him, a two-storey stone house and a stone Archangel Church were erected in the estate.

The estate of the Voronezh noble family Venevitinov in Novozhyvotinny is a two-storey mansion, built in classical style in the second half of the XVIII century and has been rebuilt many times since then. It is a symmetrical structure with a portico, a wide balcony and terraces on the end sides. The estate includes: the main house of 1760-1770, a wing of 1887, a fence and gates of the middle of the XIX century, a park with a pond of the XVIII century, the remains of the church of Michael the Archangel in 1780. Now it has a museum dedicated to the most famous representative of this kind - the poet Dmitry Venevitinov. Passing through seven halls, they get acquainted with the history of the noblemen of the Venevitinovs, what role they played in the development of domestic shipbuilding, of course, with the life and work of the poet, as well as with the interior of the noble estate of the XIX century.

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