Konstantinovo (Rybnovsky district)

The history of the village Konstantinovo has about 400 years. The first mention of it dates back to 1619 , the village was then the property of the royal family. A few decades later it was granted Myshetsky and Volkonsky.

Chapel and view of the Oka from the Kazan Church

Most of the village began to own Jacob Myshetsky , who gave him a dowry to his daughter Natalia, when she married Kirill Alekseevich Naryshkin .

In 1728, the son of Kirill Alekseevich Semyon Kirillovich Naryshkin became the owner of Konstantinov. He received a brilliant European education, consisted in the diplomatic service. Not having direct descendants in 1775, bequeathed Konstantinovo to his nephew Alexander Mikhailovich Golitsyn .

In 1779, a stone church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God was erected at the expense of Golitsyn. In 1808, the estate passed on to an extramarital daughter, Catherine Alexandrovna, in marriage to Dolgorukova.

According to her will, in 1843 her nephews Alexander Dmitrievich and Vladimir Dmitrievich Olsufievs became the owners of the village. After 2 years, they divided the aunt's inheritance, and the eldest of the brothers, Alexander Dmitrievich, began to single-handedly manage the estate. His son, Vladimir Alexandrovich Olsufiev (1829–1867), inherited in 1853.

A significant event in the lives of the peasants of the village of Konstantinovo was the manifesto of 1861 , when they received personal freedom. At that time, 680 revision souls of the village of Konstantinovo received into their ownership 1,400 acres 740 fathoms of land; they paid 72,945 rubles for their ransom.

The village was in the possession of the Olsufyevs until 1879 , when it passed into the possession of the Kupriyanov merchants from Bogoroditsk - Sergey, Alexander and Nikolai Grigorievich.

The eldest of the brothers, Sergey (1843 (?) - 1923), built a local school, did much to educate peasant children.

In 1897, the Moscow millionaire, owner of apartment houses on the Khitrov market, “hereditary honorary citizen of Moscow” Ivan Petrovich Kulakov became the owner of the house and the estate.

Kulakov built a new school building, decorated the temple with a wooden oak iconostasis. According to the order of the Bishop of Ryazan and Zaraisky Nikodim (Bokov), he was buried in the church fence. After the death of his father in 1911, Lidia Ivanovna became the mistress, in marriage Kashin. She continued her parent's charity work.

Since 1917, a new historical period began in the life of the village of Konstantinovo.

Manor Konstantinovo

Manor Konstantinovo (formerly Ryazan County ) was founded in the middle of the 17th century by the stolnik , Prince Ya. K. Myshetsky (died 1700), then transferred to Kravchev KA Naryshkin , married to his daughter Princess A. Ya. Myshetskaya. Then their daughter T. K. Naryshkina (1702-1757), who married Admiral General M. M. Golitsyn the Younger (1684-1764), departed. After their son, Vice-Chancellor Prince A. M. Golitsyn (1723-1807), who in 1806 bequeathed the estate of his extramarital daughter E. A. de Litsyna (1757-14444). Then the rulers of her nephews A. D. Olsufiev ( 1790-1853) and the actual State Counselor and Cavalier Count V. D. Olsufiev (1796-1858), who in 1879 sold the estate to the Moscow merchants brothers S. G., A. G. and N. G. Kupriyanov. Since 1897, the estate was owned by the Moscow merchant I. P. Kulakov (d. 1911), and until 1917 his daughter L. I. Kulakov (1886–37), who married the professor of philology N. P. Kashin.

The one-storied house with a wooden mezzanine has survived the main house of the turn of the 18th — 19th centuries, a barn. The current Kazan Church in 1779 in the style of classicism, built, presumably by the architect I. Ye. Starov (possibly according to a project developed in Starov's workshop) by order of Prince A. M. Golitsyn (the church was restored in 1964 according to the project of S. V. Chugunov) . Chapel of the Holy Spirit of the XIX century (restored in 2002).

In January 1918, when the owners of the house were evicted, the Konstantinovsky estate and all property was transferred to the Ryazan district council of workers and peasants' deputies. In 1919 the Konstantinovsky orphanage named after the III International was placed in the manor house. In 1933, a seven-year wooden school was built on the estate in the park, and the families of teachers settled in the former house of the landowner. From 1965 to 1969, a consumer services combine operated in the manor house of the village of Konstantinovo, in which there were sewing and shoemaking workshops, a hairdresser, and a carpentry shop. The new life of the old manor house began when it was transferred in 1969 to the jurisdiction of the State Museum-Reserve of S. A. Yesenin. During the overhaul and restoration of the building, the appearance of the beginning of the twentieth century was restored, in 1995 it housed the museum of the poem “Anna Snegina” - one of the few in the world dedicated to a single literary work and its prototype - L.I. Kashina .

The poet S. A. Yesenin, the artist L. O. Pasternak , the director of the Zoological Museum, Professor G. A. Kozhevnikov, the actor of the Maly Theater G. A. Khudoleev, the writers E. L. Yantariev and N. M. Bags.

The State Tretyakov Gallery preserves the painting by L. O. Pasternak “Preparation for the Dance”, for which the children of L. I. and N. P. Kashins posed for and the portrait of Prince A. M. Golitsyn by D. G. Levitsky . The epistolary heritage of the owners and guests of the estate is located in the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art.

The owners of the estate, from the princes Myshetsky and ending with the Olsufyevs, belonged to the Tula estate Red Buits ^[2] .

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  Kazan Church in Konstantinov

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  Kazan Church, bell tower

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  View of the Oka River downstream towards Kuzminsky

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  House priest I.Ya. Smirnova

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  The house where Yesenin was born and lived

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  Manor L. I. Kashinoy

• Kazan Icon of the Mother of God temple
• Photos of the village Konstantinovo

• Solzhenitsyn A.I. On Yesenin's homeland // Collected Works in 30 volumes. - M .: Time, 2006. - T. 1. Short stories and little ones. - p. 547. - 672 p. - ISBN 5-94117-168-4 , ISBN 5-9691-0032-3 (general).