Spasskoye-Kurkino Estate

The main house of the estate is semi-stone, two-storey with mezzanines, built almost entirely of larch - an exceptional wood in strength. The austere facade is decorated with a powerful portico with six wooden Doric order columns and a light triangular pediment. The bright two-storey house with an area of 1200 square meters with a large number of windows at one time was famous far beyond the province for its luxurious and elegant interiors: the floor in 25 main rooms was covered with rosewood red and ebony parquet, all Empire-style furniture was made of mahogany or Karelian birch, painted ceilings (paintings on the ceilings are still preserved under a layer of plaster: this is evidenced by research samples taken by the restorer O.A. Sokolova) were decorated with plafonds and crystal chandeliers, the walls were upholstered with silk wallpaper. The decor was complemented by mirror slides with porcelain from Russian factories, marble statuettes, lithographs, paintings, icons, portraits. The owners of the estate also managed to collect a rich library – there were over four thousand volumes in it. Currently, the property, furniture, dishes, various utensils and personal belongings of the Rezanov-Andreev nobles are in the funds of the Vologda Museum-Reserve, and most of the noble library can be seen in the rare book department of the Vologda Regional Universal Scientific Library. Moreover, it may be recalled that the richest library of the Rezanovs-Andreevs, expropriated after the events of the October Revolution of 1917, entered the funds of the Vologda Regional Library at the end of October 1918, among the first four nationalized Starodvoryan libraries. A volume of poems in French, published during the lifetime of A. S. Pushkin, is registered at number one in the regional library. There are monograms of the Rezanov-Andreevs on the book. Like every ancient manor, Spasskoye-Kurkino has its own secrets, legends and secrets. One of them is an underground passage that, according to legend, existed in the manor, but has not yet been found. In 2006, the old park and several buildings of the former noble estate received the status of a cultural heritage site of regional significance, and two years later the huge English park adjacent to the house was declared a specially protected natural area. The highlight of the park were three-stemmed lime trees, as well as intricately trimmed birches grown by an experienced gardener who worked at the Rezanov-Andreev estate. In the summer of 2014-2015, restoration work was carried out on the territory of the estate by Russian and foreign volunteers; the Spasskoye-Kurkino Estate program operates under the Vologda Land Charitable Foundation, whose tasks include the restoration, reconstruction of the estate and the creation of a museum and tourist complex on its basis; a coordinating council for the restoration of the estate was established in the Vologda district. Various festivals, charity concerts, historical reconstructions, master classes are held on the territory of the estate by local enthusiasts, the first Victory Ball in the last century was held; the beauty and views of the estate become the theme of many plein-airs. The estate is often visited by the descendants of the Rezanov-Andreevs - Anatoly Vladimirovich Andreev (St. Petersburg) and his daughter - Svetlana Anatolyevna (Pau, France). S.A. Andreeva participated in the II International Festival of Folk Crafts "The Voice of Crafts" and presented to the future museum of the estate her competitive work - a tea pair with manor views. Activists of the village have published three books dedicated to Kurkino and the estate: "Spasskoye-Kurkino Estate" (2013), "Shone with Spiritual Light ..." (2014) and "Arabesques of my Life" by A.F. Rezanov (2015). The noble estate Spasskoye-Kurkino is considered the most artistically decorated landowner's estate of Vologda region and today is the most valuable monument of provincial noble culture. Not indifferent people of the village have recently made considerable efforts to preserve the estate and its revival. They are convinced that with a reasonable investment of funds, the search for investors, the estate in Kurkino can become a model of a decent attitude to its history, an interesting object for tourism not only in the Vologda region, but also in the entire Vologda region, and will serve to educate more than one generation of young citizens.

The main house of the estate is semi-stone, two-storey with mezzanines, built almost entirely of larch - an exceptional wood in strength. The austere facade is decorated with a powerful portico with six wooden Doric order columns and a light triangular pediment. The bright two-storey house with an area of 1200 square meters with a large number of windows at one time was famous far beyond the province for its luxurious and elegant interiors: the floor in 25 main rooms was covered with rosewood red and ebony parquet, all Empire-style furniture was made of mahogany or Karelian birch, painted ceilings (paintings on the ceilings are still preserved under a layer of plaster: this is evidenced by research samples taken by the restorer O.A. Sokolova) were decorated with plafonds and crystal chandeliers, the walls were upholstered with silk wallpaper. The decor was complemented by mirror slides with porcelain from Russian factories, marble statuettes, lithographs, paintings, icons, portraits. The owners of the estate also managed to collect a rich library – there were over four thousand volumes in it. Currently, the property, furniture, dishes, various utensils and personal belongings of the Rezanov-Andreev nobles are in the funds of the Vologda Museum-Reserve, and most of the noble library can be seen in the rare book department of the Vologda Regional Universal Scientific Library. Moreover, it may be recalled that the richest library of the Rezanovs-Andreevs, expropriated after the events of the October Revolution of 1917, entered the funds of the Vologda Regional Library at the end of October 1918, among the first four nationalized Starodvoryan libraries. A volume of poems in French, published during the lifetime of A. S. Pushkin, is registered at number one in the regional library. There are monograms of the Rezanov-Andreevs on the book. Like every ancient manor, Spasskoye-Kurkino has its own secrets, legends and secrets. One of them is an underground passage that, according to legend, existed in the manor, but has not yet been found. In 2006, the old park and several buildings of the former noble estate received the status of a cultural heritage site of regional significance, and two years later the huge English park adjacent to the house was declared a specially protected natural area. The highlight of the park were three-stemmed lime trees, as well as intricately trimmed birches grown by an experienced gardener who worked at the Rezanov-Andreev estate. In the summer of 2014-2015, restoration work was carried out on the territory of the estate by Russian and foreign volunteers; the Spasskoye-Kurkino Estate program operates under the Vologda Land Charitable Foundation, whose tasks include the restoration, reconstruction of the estate and the creation of a museum and tourist complex on its basis; a coordinating council for the restoration of the estate was established in the Vologda district. Various festivals, charity concerts, historical reconstructions, master classes are held on the territory of the estate by local enthusiasts, the first Victory Ball in the last century was held; the beauty and views of the estate become the theme of many plein-airs. The estate is often visited by the descendants of the Rezanov-Andreevs - Anatoly Vladimirovich Andreev (St. Petersburg) and his daughter - Svetlana Anatolyevna (Pau, France). S.A. Andreeva participated in the II International Festival of Folk Crafts "The Voice of Crafts" and presented to the future museum of the estate her competitive work - a tea pair with manor views. Activists of the village have published three books dedicated to Kurkino and the estate: "Spasskoye-Kurkino Estate" (2013), "Shone with Spiritual Light ..." (2014) and "Arabesques of my Life" by A.F. Rezanov (2015).

The main house of the estate is semi-stone, two-storey with mezzanines, built almost entirely of larch - an exceptional wood in strength. The austere facade is decorated with a powerful portico with six wooden Doric order columns and a light triangular pediment. The bright two-storey house with an area of 1200 square meters with a large number of windows at one time was famous far beyond the province for its luxurious and elegant interiors: the floor in 25 main rooms was covered with rosewood red and ebony parquet, all Empire-style furniture was made of mahogany or Karelian birch, painted ceilings (paintings on the ceilings are still preserved under a layer of plaster: this is evidenced by research samples taken by the restorer O.A. Sokolova) were decorated with plafonds and crystal chandeliers, the walls were upholstered with silk wallpaper. The decor was complemented by mirror slides with porcelain from Russian factories, marble statuettes, lithographs, paintings, icons, portraits. The owners of the estate also managed to collect a rich library – there were over four thousand volumes in it. Currently, the property, furniture, dishes, various utensils and personal belongings of the Rezanov-Andreev nobles are in the funds of the Vologda Museum-Reserve, and most of the noble library can be seen in the rare book department of the Vologda Regional Universal Scientific Library. Moreover, it may be recalled that the richest library of the Rezanovs-Andreevs, expropriated after the events of the October Revolution of 1917, entered the funds of the Vologda Regional Library at the end of October 1918, among the first four nationalized Starodvoryan libraries. A volume of poems in French, published during the lifetime of A. S. Pushkin, is registered at number one in the regional library. There are monograms of the Rezanov-Andreevs on the book. Like every ancient manor, Spasskoye-Kurkino has its own secrets, legends and secrets. One of them is an underground passage that, according to legend, existed in the manor, but has not yet been found. In 2006, the old park and several buildings of the former noble estate received the status of a cultural heritage site of regional significance, and two years later the huge English park adjacent to the house was declared a specially protected natural area. The highlight of the park were three-stemmed lime trees, as well as intricately trimmed birches grown by an experienced gardener who worked at the Rezanov-Andreev estate. In the summer of 2014-2015, restoration work was carried out on the territory of the estate by Russian and foreign volunteers; the Spasskoye-Kurkino Estate program operates under the Vologda Land Charitable Foundation, whose tasks include the restoration, reconstruction of the estate and the creation of a museum and tourist complex on its basis; a coordinating council for the restoration of the estate was established in the Vologda district. Various festivals, charity concerts, historical reconstructions, master classes are held on the territory of the estate by local enthusiasts, the first Victory Ball in the last century was held; the beauty and views of the estate become the theme of many plein-airs. The estate is often visited by the descendants of the Rezanov-Andreevs - Anatoly Vladimirovich Andreev (St. Petersburg) and his daughter - Svetlana Anatolyevna (Pau, France). S.A. Andreeva participated in the II International Festival of Folk Crafts "The Voice of Crafts" and presented to the future museum of the estate her competitive work - a tea pair with manor views.

The main house of the estate is semi-stone, two-storey with mezzanines, built almost entirely of larch - an exceptional wood in strength. The austere facade is decorated with a powerful portico with six wooden Doric order columns and a light triangular pediment. The bright two-storey house with an area of 1200 square meters with a large number of windows at one time was famous far beyond the province for its luxurious and elegant interiors: the floor in 25 main rooms was covered with rosewood red and ebony parquet, all Empire-style furniture was made of mahogany or Karelian birch, painted ceilings (paintings on the ceilings are still preserved under a layer of plaster: this is evidenced by research samples taken by the restorer O.A. Sokolova) were decorated with plafonds and crystal chandeliers, the walls were upholstered with silk wallpaper. The decor was complemented by mirror slides with porcelain from Russian factories, marble statuettes, lithographs, paintings, icons, portraits. The owners of the estate also managed to collect a rich library – there were over four thousand volumes in it. Currently, the property, furniture, dishes, various utensils and personal belongings of the Rezanov-Andreev nobles are in the funds of the Vologda Museum-Reserve, and most of the noble library can be seen in the rare book department of the Vologda Regional Universal Scientific Library. Moreover, it may be recalled that the richest library of the Rezanovs-Andreevs, expropriated after the events of the October Revolution of 1917, entered the funds of the Vologda Regional Library at the end of October 1918, among the first four nationalized Starodvoryan libraries. A volume of poems in French, published during the lifetime of A. S. Pushkin, is registered at number one in the regional library. There are monograms of the Rezanov-Andreevs on the book. Like every ancient manor, Spasskoye-Kurkino has its own secrets, legends and secrets. One of them is an underground passage that, according to legend, existed in the manor, but has not yet been found. In 2006, the old park and several buildings of the former noble estate received the status of a cultural heritage site of regional significance, and two years later the huge English park adjacent to the house was declared a specially protected natural area. The highlight of the park were three-stemmed lime trees, as well as intricately trimmed birches grown by an experienced gardener who worked at the Rezanov-Andreev estate. In the summer of 2014-2015, restoration work was carried out on the territory of the estate by Russian and foreign volunteers; the Spasskoye-Kurkino Estate program operates under the Vologda Land Charitable Foundation, whose tasks include the restoration, reconstruction of the estate and the creation of a museum and tourist complex on its basis; a coordinating council for the restoration of the estate was established in the Vologda district.

The main house of the estate is semi-stone, two-storey with mezzanines, built almost entirely of larch - an exceptional wood in strength. The austere facade is decorated with a powerful portico with six wooden Doric order columns and a light triangular pediment. The bright two-storey house with an area of 1200 square meters with a large number of windows at one time was famous far beyond the province for its luxurious and elegant interiors: the floor in 25 main rooms was covered with rosewood red and ebony parquet, all Empire-style furniture was made of mahogany or Karelian birch, painted ceilings (paintings on the ceilings are still preserved under a layer of plaster: this is evidenced by research samples taken by the restorer O.A. Sokolova) were decorated with plafonds and crystal chandeliers, the walls were upholstered with silk wallpaper. The decor was complemented by mirror slides with porcelain from Russian factories, marble statuettes, lithographs, paintings, icons, portraits. The owners of the estate also managed to collect a rich library – there were over four thousand volumes in it. Currently, the property, furniture, dishes, various utensils and personal belongings of the Rezanov-Andreev nobles are in the funds of the Vologda Museum-Reserve, and most of the noble library can be seen in the rare book department of the Vologda Regional Universal Scientific Library. Moreover, it may be recalled that the richest library of the Rezanovs-Andreevs, expropriated after the events of the October Revolution of 1917, entered the funds of the Vologda Regional Library at the end of October 1918, among the first four nationalized Starodvoryan libraries. A volume of poems in French, published during the lifetime of A. S. Pushkin, is registered at number one in the regional library. There are monograms of the Rezanov-Andreevs on the book. Like every ancient manor, Spasskoye-Kurkino has its own secrets, legends and secrets. One of them is an underground passage that, according to legend, existed in the manor, but has not yet been found. In 2006, the old park and several buildings of the former noble estate received the status of a cultural heritage site of regional significance, and two years later the huge English park adjacent to the house was declared a specially protected natural area. The highlight of the park were three-stemmed lime trees, as well as intricately trimmed birches grown by an experienced gardener who worked at the Rezanov-Andreev estate.

The main house of the estate is semi-stone, two-storey with mezzanines, built almost entirely of larch - an exceptional wood in strength. The austere facade is decorated with a powerful portico with six wooden Doric order columns and a light triangular pediment. The bright two-storey house with an area of 1200 square meters with a large number of windows at one time was famous far beyond the province for its luxurious and elegant interiors: the floor in 25 main rooms was covered with rosewood red and ebony parquet, all Empire-style furniture was made of mahogany or Karelian birch, painted ceilings (paintings on the ceilings are still preserved under a layer of plaster: this is evidenced by research samples taken by the restorer O.A. Sokolova) were decorated with plafonds and crystal chandeliers, the walls were upholstered with silk wallpaper. The decor was complemented by mirror slides with porcelain from Russian factories, marble statuettes, lithographs, paintings, icons, portraits. The owners of the estate also managed to collect a rich library – there were over four thousand volumes in it. Currently, the property, furniture, dishes, various utensils and personal belongings of the Rezanov-Andreev nobles are in the funds of the Vologda Museum-Reserve, and most of the noble library can be seen in the rare book department of the Vologda Regional Universal Scientific Library. Moreover, it may be recalled that the richest library of the Rezanovs-Andreevs, expropriated after the events of the October Revolution of 1917, entered the funds of the Vologda Regional Library at the end of October 1918, among the first four nationalized Starodvoryan libraries. A volume of poems in French, published during the lifetime of A. S. Pushkin, is registered at number one in the regional library. There are monograms of the Rezanov-Andreevs on the book. Like every ancient manor, Spasskoye-Kurkino has its own secrets, legends and secrets. One of them is an underground passage that, according to legend, existed in the manor, but has not yet been found.

The main house of the estate is semi-stone, two-storey with mezzanines, built almost entirely of larch - an exceptional wood in strength. The austere facade is decorated with a powerful portico with six wooden Doric order columns and a light triangular pediment. The bright two-storey house with an area of 1200 square meters with a large number of windows at one time was famous far beyond the province for its luxurious and elegant interiors: the floor in 25 main rooms was covered with rosewood red and ebony parquet, all Empire-style furniture was made of mahogany or Karelian birch, painted ceilings (paintings on the ceilings are still preserved under a layer of plaster: this is evidenced by research samples taken by the restorer O.A. Sokolova) were decorated with plafonds and crystal chandeliers, the walls were upholstered with silk wallpaper. The decor was complemented by mirror slides with porcelain from Russian factories, marble statuettes, lithographs, paintings, icons, portraits. The owners of the estate also managed to collect a rich library – there were over four thousand volumes in it. Currently, the property, furniture, dishes, various utensils and personal belongings of the Rezanov-Andreev nobles are in the funds of the Vologda Museum-Reserve, and most of the noble library can be seen in the rare book department of the Vologda Regional Universal Scientific Library. Moreover, it may be recalled that the richest library of the Rezanovs-Andreevs, expropriated after the events of the October Revolution of 1917, entered the funds of the Vologda Regional Library at the end of October 1918, among the first four nationalized Starodvoryan libraries. A volume of poems in French, published during the lifetime of A. S. Pushkin, is registered at number one in the regional library. There are monograms of the Rezanov-Andreevs on the book.

The main house of the estate is semi-stone, two-storey with mezzanines, built almost entirely of larch - an exceptional wood in strength. The austere facade is decorated with a powerful portico with six wooden Doric order columns and a light triangular pediment. The bright two-storey house with an area of 1200 square meters with a large number of windows at one time was famous far beyond the province for its luxurious and elegant interiors: the floor in 25 main rooms was covered with rosewood red and ebony parquet, all Empire-style furniture was made of mahogany or Karelian birch, painted ceilings (paintings on the ceilings are still preserved under a layer of plaster: this is evidenced by research samples taken by the restorer O.A. Sokolova) were decorated with plafonds and crystal chandeliers, the walls were upholstered with silk wallpaper. The decor was complemented by mirror slides with porcelain from Russian factories, marble statuettes, lithographs, paintings, icons, portraits. The owners of the estate also managed to collect a rich library – there were over four thousand volumes in it.

In the village of Kurkino, 20 km northwest of Vologda, the estate of Spasskoye-Kurkino of the landowners Rezanov-Andreev is located – in the XIX century, one of the largest and most beautiful historical and architectural ensembles of provincial manor culture in the Vologda region. In the history of the Vologda Region of the century before last, there are not so many noble surnames that would be known outside of it. These include the surnames of the Rezanovs, Andreevs and Neelovs. The Rezanov nobles, the original owners of the Spasskoye-Kurkino estate, quite large landowners (in 1828-1832 Fyodor Dmitrievich Rezanov owned 139 villages and villages in four counties of the Vologda province), invested a lot of effort and money in creating a strong landlord economy and improving the estate. To give importance to his estate, F.D. Rezanov built the stone Church of the Transfiguration of the Savior at his own expense in 1818. In the 1880s, after the only Rezanov heiress married a young nobleman Andreyev, the entire inheritance from one noble family passed to the Andreev noblemen. The Rezanov-Andreev family tree was compiled by the great-grandson of the last owners of the Spasskoye-Kurkino estate, Alexander Olegovich Andreev, who now lives in Vilnius. In the relatives of Messrs. Rezanov and Andreev, as well as L.A. Gisetti, the wife of the last owner of the estate N.N. Andreev, you can find Generalissimo A.V. Suvorov and Field Marshal M.I. Kutuzov, writer I.S.Turgenev and A.M. Ridiger – Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II. Moreover, the father of the future patriarch repeatedly visited the Spasskoye-Kurkino estate in infancy; photographs have been preserved in the archives, where the young Misha Ridiger is depicted in the arms of his mother A.Y. von Baltz on the steps of the grand staircase, running down to one of the most favorite places of recreation - the vase area. After the revolution, the estate was taken over by the GubChK, and after it housed various agricultural institutions; without proper care, the estate building and the adjacent park gradually fell into disrepair. The Kurkin estate once included a semi-stone manor house, a stone outbuilding, a sand balcony (the so-called covered sandbox where noble children walked in the rain), a wooden music pavilion (an orchestra of 40 musicians played in the estate) and its counterpart, as well as a huge park with birch and lime alleys, circles and gazebos, a greenhouse, a white courtyard in front of the stable, a cascade of ponds with islands, a swimming pool arranged for children in one of the ponds, and numerous outbuildings. To date, the manor mansion, an outbuilding, a music pavilion, a wooden building of the former almshouse, arranged for the disabled and orphans during the First World War by the wife of the last owner of the estate, L.A. Andreeva (Gisetti), have been preserved. The English park in the form of a double-headed eagle also survived (the lime trees on the site of the lost eagle's "head" were planted in the spring of 2015 by schoolchildren and teachers, as well as activists for the restoration of the Spasskoye-Kurkino estate complex led by a resident of the village, an individual entrepreneur Nikolai Saikin) and a cascade of four man-made ponds. At a short distance from the last pond there is a so-called "olennik": a forest area in which the owners of the estate bred deer for their favorite pastime – hunting. The Rezanov-Andreev nobles were also large horse breeders; the horse is also depicted on the Rezanov coat of arms.

The main house of the estate is semi-stone, two-storey with mezzanines, built almost entirely of larch - an exceptional wood in strength. The austere facade is decorated with a powerful portico with six wooden Doric order columns and a light triangular pediment. The bright two-storey house with an area of 1200 square meters with a large number of windows at one time was famous far beyond the province for its luxurious and elegant interiors: the floor in 25 main rooms was covered with rosewood red and ebony parquet, all Empire-style furniture was made of mahogany or Karelian birch, painted ceilings (paintings on the ceilings are still preserved under a layer of plaster: this is evidenced by research samples taken by the restorer O.A. Sokolova) were decorated with plafonds and crystal chandeliers, the walls were upholstered with silk wallpaper.

In the village of Kurkino, 20 km northwest of Vologda, the estate of Spasskoye-Kurkino of the landowners Rezanov-Andreev is located – in the XIX century, one of the largest and most beautiful historical and architectural ensembles of provincial manor culture in the Vologda region. In the history of the Vologda Region of the century before last, there are not so many noble surnames that would be known outside of it. These include the surnames of the Rezanovs, Andreevs and Neelovs. The Rezanov nobles, the original owners of the Spasskoye-Kurkino estate, quite large landowners (in 1828-1832 Fyodor Dmitrievich Rezanov owned 139 villages and villages in four counties of the Vologda province), invested a lot of effort and money in creating a strong landlord economy and improving the estate. To give importance to his estate, F.D. Rezanov built the stone Church of the Transfiguration of the Savior at his own expense in 1818. In the 1880s, after the only Rezanov heiress married a young nobleman Andreyev, the entire inheritance from one noble family passed to the Andreev noblemen. The Rezanov-Andreev family tree was compiled by the great-grandson of the last owners of the Spasskoye-Kurkino estate, Alexander Olegovich Andreev, who now lives in Vilnius. In the relatives of Messrs. Rezanov and Andreev, as well as L.A. Gisetti, the wife of the last owner of the estate N.N. Andreev, you can find Generalissimo A.V. Suvorov and Field Marshal M.I. Kutuzov, writer I.S.Turgenev and A.M. Ridiger – Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II. Moreover, the father of the future patriarch repeatedly visited the Spasskoye-Kurkino estate in infancy; photographs have been preserved in the archives, where the young Misha Ridiger is depicted in the arms of his mother A.Y. von Baltz on the steps of the grand staircase, running down to one of the most favorite places of recreation - the vase area. After the revolution, the estate was taken over by the GubChK, and after it housed various agricultural institutions; without proper care, the estate building and the adjacent park gradually fell into disrepair. The Kurkin estate once included a semi-stone manor house, a stone outbuilding, a sand balcony (the so-called covered sandbox where noble children walked in the rain), a wooden music pavilion (an orchestra of 40 musicians played in the estate) and its counterpart, as well as a huge park with birch and lime alleys, circles and gazebos, a greenhouse, a white courtyard in front of the stable, a cascade of ponds with islands, a swimming pool arranged for children in one of the ponds, and numerous outbuildings. To date, the manor mansion, an outbuilding, a music pavilion, a wooden building of the former almshouse, arranged for the disabled and orphans during the First World War by the wife of the last owner of the estate, L.A. Andreeva (Gisetti), have been preserved. The English park in the form of a double-headed eagle also survived (the lime trees on the site of the lost eagle's "head" were planted in the spring of 2015 by schoolchildren and teachers, as well as activists for the restoration of the Spasskoye-Kurkino estate complex led by a resident of the village, an individual entrepreneur Nikolai Saikin) and a cascade of four man-made ponds. At a short distance from the last pond there is a so-called "olennik": a forest area in which the owners of the estate bred deer for their favorite pastime – hunting. The Rezanov-Andreev nobles were also large horse breeders; the horse is also depicted on the Rezanov coat of arms.

In the village of Kurkino, 20 km northwest of Vologda, the estate of Spasskoye-Kurkino of the landowners Rezanov-Andreev is located – in the XIX century, one of the largest and most beautiful historical and architectural ensembles of provincial manor culture in the Vologda region. In the history of the Vologda Region of the century before last, there are not so many noble surnames that would be known outside of it. These include the surnames of the Rezanovs, Andreevs and Neelovs. The Rezanov nobles, the original owners of the Spasskoye-Kurkino estate, quite large landowners (in 1828-1832 Fyodor Dmitrievich Rezanov owned 139 villages and villages in four counties of the Vologda province), invested a lot of effort and money in creating a strong landlord economy and improving the estate. To give importance to his estate, F.D. Rezanov built the stone Church of the Transfiguration of the Savior at his own expense in 1818. In the 1880s, after the only Rezanov heiress married a young nobleman Andreyev, the entire inheritance from one noble family passed to the Andreev noblemen. The Rezanov-Andreev family tree was compiled by the great-grandson of the last owners of the Spasskoye-Kurkino estate, Alexander Olegovich Andreev, who now lives in Vilnius. In the relatives of Messrs. Rezanov and Andreev, as well as L.A. Gisetti, the wife of the last owner of the estate N.N. Andreev, you can find Generalissimo A.V. Suvorov and Field Marshal M.I. Kutuzov, writer I.S.Turgenev and A.M. Ridiger – Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II. Moreover, the father of the future patriarch repeatedly visited the Spasskoye-Kurkino estate in infancy; photographs have been preserved in the archives, where the young Misha Ridiger is depicted in the arms of his mother A.Y. von Baltz on the steps of the grand staircase, running down to one of the most favorite places of recreation - the vase area. After the revolution, the estate was taken over by the GubChK, and after it housed various agricultural institutions; without proper care, the estate building and the adjacent park gradually fell into disrepair. The Kurkin estate once included a semi-stone manor house, a stone outbuilding, a sand balcony (the so-called covered sandbox where noble children walked in the rain), a wooden music pavilion (an orchestra of 40 musicians played in the estate) and its counterpart, as well as a huge park with birch and lime alleys, circles and gazebos, a greenhouse, a white courtyard in front of the stable, a cascade of ponds with islands, a swimming pool arranged for children in one of the ponds, and numerous outbuildings. To date, the manor mansion, an outbuilding, a music pavilion, a wooden building of the former almshouse, arranged for the disabled and orphans during the First World War by the wife of the last owner of the estate, L.A. Andreeva (Gisetti), have been preserved.

In the village of Kurkino, 20 km northwest of Vologda, the estate of Spasskoye-Kurkino of the landowners Rezanov-Andreev is located – in the XIX century, one of the largest and most beautiful historical and architectural ensembles of provincial manor culture in the Vologda region. In the history of the Vologda Region of the century before last, there are not so many noble surnames that would be known outside of it. These include the surnames of the Rezanovs, Andreevs and Neelovs. The Rezanov nobles, the original owners of the Spasskoye-Kurkino estate, quite large landowners (in 1828-1832 Fyodor Dmitrievich Rezanov owned 139 villages and villages in four counties of the Vologda province), invested a lot of effort and money in creating a strong landlord economy and improving the estate. To give importance to his estate, F.D. Rezanov built the stone Church of the Transfiguration of the Savior at his own expense in 1818. In the 1880s, after the only Rezanov heiress married a young nobleman Andreyev, the entire inheritance from one noble family passed to the Andreev noblemen. The Rezanov-Andreev family tree was compiled by the great-grandson of the last owners of the Spasskoye-Kurkino estate, Alexander Olegovich Andreev, who now lives in Vilnius. In the relatives of Messrs. Rezanov and Andreev, as well as L.A. Gisetti, the wife of the last owner of the estate N.N. Andreev, you can find Generalissimo A.V. Suvorov and Field Marshal M.I. Kutuzov, writer I.S.Turgenev and A.M. Ridiger – Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II. Moreover, the father of the future patriarch repeatedly visited the Spasskoye-Kurkino estate in infancy; photographs have been preserved in the archives, where the young Misha Ridiger is depicted in the arms of his mother A.Y. von Baltz on the steps of the grand staircase, running down to one of the most favorite places of recreation - the vase area. After the revolution, the estate was taken over by the GubChK, and after it housed various agricultural institutions; without proper care, the estate building and the adjacent park gradually fell into disrepair.