Aspen Grove (Manor)

	Object of cultural heritage of Russia of regional significance; reg. No. 781520228140005 ( EGROKN ); Object № 7810194000 (Wikigid database)
World Heritage Site
Link	No. 540-024 in the list of World Heritage Sites
Criteria	i, ii, iv, vi
Region
Inclusion	1990 ( 14th session )

Aspen Grove
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Aspen Grove
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Location
Status	OKN No. 7810194000

The Levashov-Vyazemsky manor is a ruined monument of manor architecture in the village of Osinovaya Roshcha (now the Vyborgsky district of St. Petersburg ), at the fork of the Vyborgsky and Priozersky shosse, 4 km from the village of Pesochny . One of the many objects in St. Petersburg , placed in 1990 under the protection of UNESCO .

1886 plan

In the 1770s, a miniature villa of Prince Grigory Alexandrovich Potemkin stood on Osinovaya Roscha manor, where Empress Catherine visited him in May 1778. Impressed by the location of the manor, she wrote to Baron Grimm ^[1] :

Petersburg and the sea at your feet; before my eyes all the cottages on the Peterhof road and then lakes, hills, forests, fields, rocks and huts. The English gardener and architect is in our retinue and we wandered all of yesterday and, God knows, how much we planted, set up. Tsarskoye Selo, Gatchino and even Tsaritsyno by the location of rubbish in comparison with Aspen Grove. Now the whole yard lives in a house of ten rooms, but what a view from every window! By God, this is wonderful.

The estate with a wooden manor house and office buildings developed in the era of Russian classicism , at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. The manor house was built by order of Princess E. N. Lopukhina, professor of architecture V. I. Beretti in 1828-1830 ^[2] . According to the same project, the Zinoviev manor house was built on the Theological Manor .

In 1847, P.P. Lopukhin sold the Aspen Grove to Count V.V. Levashov . Here, Countess Olga Levashova often gathered supporters of the continuation of the liberal transformations undertaken by Alexander II . Her daughters, Ekaterina and Maria Vladimirovna (wife of Prince L. D. Vyazemsky ), at the beginning of the 20th century, began to sell estate land for development. The last private owner of Aspen Grove was Mary's son, Prince B. L. Vyazemsky .

In Soviet times, the manor house was used to accommodate the military unit, then adapted for a rest house. A year after receiving UNESCO conservation status, the monument burned down and was not restored after.