The gate to the estate is narrow. Manor park narrow
From the estate to the palace and park ensemble: an architectural and historical cheat sheetIn 1692, Uzkoye was bought by Tikhon Streshnev, a representative of another branch of this family. Thinking about leaving worldly life, he ordered the construction of the Kazan Church. The temple was built quickly and completed in 1697 - before the prohibition of stone construction by Peter.
Tikhon's granddaughter Sophia married Prince Boris Golitsyn, later an admiral. They arranged a regular park and several terraced ponds in the estate. Their son, Major General Alexei Golitsyn, built a new house and commercial buildings.
Then the estate was inherited by his eldest daughter Maria Tolstaya. She was married to Count Peter Tolstoy. He became the next owner of Uzkoye in 1826. And in the early 1880s, the estate passed from the Tolstoys to their relatives Trubetskoy. Then the old wooden house was rebuilt in the neoclassical style according to the project of S.K. Rodionov, they supplemented it with stone outbuildings, and the road to the estate was lined with larches on both sides.
The whole color of literary life has been here. Boris Pasternak often walked in the park. Even one of the linden alleys was named after him, and in response he dedicated poems to Uzky. And in 1900, the philosopher Vladimir Solovyov died in the owner's office.
After 1917, almost all Trubetskoys emigrated, and in 1922 the estate was transferred to the Central Commission for the Improvement of the Life of Scientists (since 1931, the Commission for the Assistance to Scientists), and in 1937 - to the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.
An exemplary farm saved the estate: it is known that the Trubetskoys grew pineapples, peaches and other exotic fruits in greenhouses.
During the war, a hospital was set up in the main house. Then a movie booth was set up at the main entrance. Immediately after the war, a sanatorium for members of the Academy of Sciences was reopened in Uzky, and the empty walls of the main house were decorated with "trophy" paintings by Western European masters of the 17th-19th centuries, taken from German museums. In 1948, the collection was replenished by the collection of Academician Nikolai Morozov. Among them were the works of I.A. Aivazovsky, V.L. Borovikovsky, I.E. Grabar, B.M. Kustodieva, I.E. Repin, N.K. Roerich, A.A. Rylova, I.I. Shishkin and other artists of the XIX-XX centuries.
Now access to the estate is possible only as part of an excursion group, although the place is very picturesque! Not without reason, in 2007, Burnt by the Sun - 2 was filmed here.
A very long time ago I became interested in the Uzkoye estate, but I still couldn’t get inside due to the fact that the entrance to the main house was limited. The former noble estate associated with such surnames as the Gagarins, Golitsyns, Streshnevs, Trubetskoy and Tolstoy, located within Moscow, was inaccessible to mere mortals. Now the sanatorium of the Academy of Sciences is located inside, and, according to reviews, even the guards at the entrance of this institution were incorruptible. Of course, the most cunning ones managed to get into the territory with the help of holes in the fence, but this only gave access to the park, and in Uzky there was also an old manor house, inside which there are many original paintings and interior items of the 17th-19th centuries. Fortunately, in Lately excursion groups began to be allowed into Uzkoye. We were happy to join one of these excursions with my friends.
You can get to the estate from the metro stations Yasenevo, Belyaevo and Teply Stan". The meeting of the group was to take place at the ancient and very beautiful Kazan Church, which was once part of the estate, and is now located outside the gates of the sanatorium, so this is one of the few buildings in Uzky that can be viewed at any time. Near the graceful church, our guide began a story about the history of this interesting place.
Narrow has been known since the beginning of the 17th century. Then there was a wasteland, which in some strange way belonged to two governors: A.F. Gagarin and P.G. Ochin-Pleshcheev. Soon the lands passed into the state treasury, and were later bought by M. F. Streshnev, who was a cousin of the wife of Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich Evdokia Streshneva. In the middle of the 17th century, a manor appeared in Uzky. In 1692, Uzkoye acquired the first Moscow governor, Tikhon Nikitich Streshnev, from his relatives. He builds a temple on the estate in honor of the icon of the Kazan Mother of God in the then fashionable style of the Naryshkin baroque. The architect of the temple is unknown, but some are trying to connect this building with the name of such an architect as Osip Startsev. As proof, they give examples of two Kyiv cathedrals, which the mentioned architect accurately built. In their form, they undoubtedly resembled a temple in Uzkoye. However, there is no documentary evidence that Startsev had a hand in the Kazan Church. Several times the temple was repaired, something new was added to its appearance. In the 18th century, under the Golitsyns, it was surrounded by a white-stone porch, which was destroyed not in Soviet times, but, oddly enough, in our days, when after 1992 the church was returned to the Russian Orthodox Church. In Soviet times, the Church was plundered, icons local residents they were allowed to take them home, and other valuables were confiscated. Kupala was thrown off, and for a long time the temple stood. A book depository was equipped inside, where the works of repressed writers, church literature and books brought as trophies from Germany after the war were collected. They say they renovated the church for the 1980 Olympics in Moscow. They installed new onion-shaped domes, which are completely different from those that were originally on the temple. Before the revolution, they were more elongated. At the same time, the gate icon of the Kazan Mother of God was cleared. She is said to be miraculous.
This church is unusual in that the bell tower is located in the tower above the entrance, and not in the center. According to legend, during the retreat from Moscow, Napoleon climbed this bell tower and watched the movement of his army.
During the tour, we noticed that people tried to enter the temple from time to time, but despite the rather early hour, it was closed. Around the sanatorium, some farmstead buildings and stone gates have been preserved, but we were in such a hurry to get inside that we did not have time to look around.
So, we go through the checkpoint. The board of honor immediately catches the eye. As if returned to the Soviet past. The first unsightly building on our way, which houses the administration. It was also called the "cat's house", as many cats once lived there. We didn't notice a single one.
Next we go to the wooden manor house, which was built at the end of the 18th century, when Alexei Borisovich Golitsyn owned Uzkiy.
Although the Uzkoye estate belonged to different surnames, all of them, one way or another, were relatives of each other. So, for example, the granddaughter of Tikhon Nikitich Streshnev married Prince Boris Vasilyevich Golitsyn, and he received these lands as a dowry. Three generations of the Golitsyns lived in Uzkoye. Then a regular park appeared here, cascades of ponds, greenhouses and the original stone house.
When in 1811 the next owner of the estate, Yegor Alekseevich Golitsyn, who did not have time to acquire offspring before his death, died, his married sister Maria Alekseevna became the heiress who received Uzkoye. Her husband was Count Peter Alexandrovich Tolstoy. Under the Tolstoys, Uzkoye was actively engaged in agriculture, using advanced Western crop cultivation technologies. One of the sons of Maria Alekseevna and Pyotr Alexandrovich, Vladimir Petrovich, marries Sofya Vasilievna Orlova-Denisova. The couple did not have their own children, and they took in the upbringing of the early orphaned nephews of Sofya Vasilievna, the three children of her late sister Lyubov Vasilievna in the marriage of Trubetskoy. Her husband Nikolai Petrovich Trubetskoy remarried, and he had nine more children, and two daughters and a son from his first marriage grew up on the Uzkoye estate with his aunt and uncle Tolstoy. Pyotr Nikolaevich Trubetskoy became the next owner of the estate. According to the documents, he bought Uzkoye, but the amount was indicated so insignificant that it becomes clear that it was just a formality. At the end of the 19th century main house rebuilt according to the project of the architect S.K. Rodionov, who was related to the Trubetskoys.
Pyotr Nikolaevich was a leader of the nobility, served as a justice of the peace, was a businesslike and purposeful person. The following episode says a lot about his character: when in St. Petersburg he was accidentally met and called out on the street by his half-brother Evgeny, whom they had not seen before for a couple of years, Pyotr Nikolaevich smiled at him as if he were an unfamiliar person and ran to some public figure, from whom he was waiting for a decision on the question that occupied him at that time. In Uzkoye Manor in 1900 the famous philosopher Vladimir Sergeevich Solovyov visited. On July 31, he died in the office of the main house. Pyotr Nikolaevich Trubetskoy himself died rather absurdly. In 1911, together with the Trubetskoy family and Christie, he came to Novocherkassk for the solemn reburial of one of his ancestors. After the ceremony, Pyotr Nikolaevich and his nephew's wife V.G. Christie went by car to the station and got into a private carriage. They were sitting at the table when an enraged nephew burst in, jealous of his uncle, his wife, and shot at point-blank range at Pyotr Nikolaevich. Why Trubetskoy immediately died. They tried to hush up the case, as the surname was too famous. By the way, Maria Alexandrovna Christie, because of whom Pyotr Nikolaevich died, later remarried and gave birth to a son, Pyotr Petrovich Glebov, who played Grigory Melikhov in Gerasimov's film "Quiet Don".
We heard a lot more about the Trubetskoy family interesting stories but already inside the house. And first bypassed old mansion from all sides.
The central part of the house is wooden, and the outbuildings are made of stone.
It is noticeable that stone buildings look better.
Previously, the passages that connected the house with the outbuildings were one-story. The second floor was added in Soviet times, when a sanatorium was organized in the estate.
On one side we see an open terrace with columns. From here you can get into the park and go down to the ponds.
On the other side central part looks more shabby.
Not so long ago, an old linden tree fell on it in winter. The house miraculously survived after such an incident.
Several films were filmed in Uzkoy, such as Anna Karenina and Burnt by the Sun 2. For filming, the house was painted with low-quality paint, which is now peeling off in pieces.
Not far from the main entrance we see a glacier.
It is said that it could be used for meetings of Freemasons. It is known that all the owners of the Uzkoye belonged to the Masons, their trace was preserved inside the house, but more on that later. From Tolstoy, greenhouses have been preserved, which are still used for their intended purpose. Then we walked through the park and went out to the ponds and the linden alley, sung by B. Pasternak.
It must be said that the day on which the excursion fell was rather cool, so we were very cold in an hour of walking. In the main house we were promised to drink coffee produced under the Trubetskoy brand, and we happily moved inside the old mansion.
When, finally, everyone warmed up and settled in a large living room, it was possible to continue the story of the family that owned this amazing estate. The uncle of Pyotr Nikolayevich Trubetskoy, already known to us, was Pyotr Petrovich Trubetskoy. An interesting and unusual personality. In his youth, his parents betrothed him a rich but ugly bride, and he refused to marry. Then they sent him to the Caucasus, and soon a letter arrived with the words: "prepare the monkey, I'm getting married." Three children were born in the marriage, but later in Florence he meets the American singer Ada Winans and begins to live with her. They had three sons, one of whom became the famous sculptor Paolo Trubetskoy. He was in Russia more than once and even became the author of the monument to Alexander III. In the estate you can buy an album with the works of Paolo Trubetskoy, many of which are kept in private collections.
Finally it's time to take a look around. The first floor was arranged as follows: an entrance hall, a small living room, a large living room, a dining room, a library, an office, a bedroom.
The second floor repeated the first. Of course, a lot has changed during the stay of the sanatorium, but the redevelopment mainly affected the second floor, where rooms for vacationers are now located. In Uzkoy you can see quite a lot of original paintings by Russian and Western European masters.
Something remained from the Trubetskoys, something was transferred by the Academy of Sciences to the sanatorium from the trophies brought to Soviet Union after the war with Germany. A significant part are items from the personal collection of the revolutionary writer Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov.
He was one of the participants in the assassination attempt on Alexander II, for which he served almost twenty-five years in prison. During this time, he learned eleven languages and wrote a huge number of works in various fields. Morozov lived to see the Great Patriotic War, before which, at the age of eighty-five, he completed sniper courses and later participated in hostilities. Interestingly, while still in prison, he fell ill with tuberculosis, and the doctors predicted his imminent death, but Nikolai Alexandrovich was able to cure himself and died much later in his father's house at 92 years old. Paintings and objects from his personal collection can now be seen in the billiard room, the very one where Vladimir Solovyov died. On the walls we see paintings by B.M. Kustodieva, Yu.I. Repin, A. Benois, A.P. Ostroumova-Lebedeva, A.Ya. Golovina, I.I. Shishkin and many other artists.
In addition, in the office we see two wooden sofa-chests with the coats of arms of Trubetskoy, a carved wooden table.
In the center of the room is a billiard table, which, according to experts, also dates from the 19th century. They say there are only two of them left in Moscow. In the small living room we see portraits of an unknown lady by V. L. Borovikovsky, a musician and a lady in a turban, unknown Western authors of the late 18th century, the furniture dates from the same period.
The large living room and dining room display trophy paintings, most likely taken from the palaces of Potsdam. In addition, in the large living room you can see a painting by the German artist A.Kh. Riedel "Bather". This canvas remained in the estate from the Trubetskoys and never left Uzkoye. Several ghost legends are associated with the Bather, however, most likely, she served only as a sign for the Masons that they were in the house of their like-minded person.
We were also shown the library, where old books were preserved.
There are many interesting elegant objects in the house that you want to look at for a long time.
Almost every item has a story associated with it. It's amazing how in this little known place so many original paintings and works of art have been preserved. Of course, in the history of the sanatorium there have been thefts here. Nevertheless, Uzkoe has retained its history, partly appearance and partially the layout of the first floor. The Soviet past, of course, left its mark, but this cannot be corrected. The only pity is that outwardly the main house is not in the at its best. But, as I understand it, the access policy tour groups to this amazing estate has been revised and now everything will be done to attract new guests. Perhaps this will help Narrow to flourish.
The Uzkoye estate in the south-west of Moscow is a former noble nest, in Soviet times a children's sanatorium, and now a health resort of the Academy of Sciences. Near the estate there is a village of the same name. The estate is surrounded by Bitsevsky park.
Many centuries ago, Uzkoye was a wasteland, in its history it was called both Uzhsky and Usky, but in the end, the current name was assigned to the estate. The first known owner of the wasteland was Prince Afanasy Gagarin, who divided this land with the steward Peter Ochin-Pleshcheev. In the 20s of the 17th century, the Gagarin allotment was acquired by the boyar Maxim Streshnev, a relative of Evdokia Lukyanovna, the second wife of Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich. Boyar Streshnev built an estate on the wasteland in about two decades. At the end of the 17th century, Tikhon Nikitich, a representative of another branch of the Streshnev family, became the owner of the estate. Under him, a church with five domes was built on the estate, consecrated in honor of the Kazan Icon Mother of God. The temple was restored in the 70s of the last century, therefore it has survived to our time.
After the marriage of the granddaughter of Tikhon Streshnev, the Uzkoye estate passed into the possession of the Golitsyn princes. Sofya Ivanovna's husband was Boris Vasilyevich Golitsyn, a military man who retired with the rank of admiral in 1762. The Golitsyn family had many children, but one of their sons Alexei Golitsyn entered the history of the estate more than others. Under the father and son Golitsyns, terraced ponds, which have survived to this day, a regular park, were built on the estate, a new master's house and service buildings were built. The daughter of Alexei Golitsyn, Maria, became the wife of Count Peter Tolstoy, and under the Tolstoys, the estate also acquired greenhouses.
Towards the end of the 19th century, the Trubetskoys became the owners of Uzkoye, under whom the central mansion was again rebuilt. The building acquired the features of neoclassicism, the road leading to the estate from the highway turned into a larch alley. The Trubetskoys ruled Uzkoye until the revolution.
After the events of 1917, the Trubetskoys left the estate. The estate was nationalized and in the 1920s it was turned into a children's sanatorium, which was very soon converted into a sanatorium for scientists, and in 1937 was transferred to the Academy of Sciences.
Today, on the territory of the former noble estate, you can see not only the central mansion and the church, but also ponds, a horse yard and an old greenhouse, an outbuilding built in the middle of the 18th century, and one of the service buildings have been preserved.
Manor Narrow.
Manor "Uzkoe"
LINDE ALLEY
B.L. Pasternak
Gate with a semicircular arch.
Hills, meadows, forests, oats.
In the fence - the darkness and cold of the park,
And a house of unparalleled beauty.
There are lindens in several girths
Celebrate in the twilight alleys,
Hiding the peaks for each other,
Your bicentenary.
They close the arches from above.
Below is a lawn and a flower garden,
Which is the right moves
They cross straight.
Under the lindens, as in a dungeon,
Not a bright spot in the sand
And only the opening of the tunnel
Lights up the exit in the distance.
But here come the days of flowering,
And lindens in the belt of fences
Scatter along with the shadow
Irresistible aroma.
Walkers in summer hats
Breathe in whoever passes
This incomprehensible smell
Understandable by bees.
He composes in these moments,
When he takes the heart
The subject and content of the book
And the park and flower beds are binding.
On an old bulky tree,
Hanging the house from above
Burning, dripping with wax,
Flowers lit by rain.
The UZKOE estate is one of the numerous landlord estates located around Moscow. In its history, divided into 4 periods, real facts intertwined with the "traditions of antiquity deep."
Three and a half centuries ago, the boyars Streshnevs settled here, connected by family relations with Mikhail Fedorovich, the first Russian sovereign from the Romanov dynasty. The Streshnevs are the first owners of Uzkoye, who left real traces of their activities in it. The Streshnevsky period in the history of the estate is the longest, rather than the subsequent ones, and at the same time, the least known. The scarcity of sources does not allow to reliably reconstruct the appearance of the estate. Judging by indirect data, the Streshnevs repeatedly visited their fiefdom, at which time its formation was completed. The territory collected from separate parts became a single whole. Under the Streshnevs, the Narrow became Narrow. This is their merit.
Sofya Ivanovna Golitsyna (née Streshneva) was the last of some owners and the first of others. In 1726, a naval officer, Prince Boris Vasilyevich Golitsyn, married her, Uzkoye was her dowry.
Under the Golitsyn princes, who came into possession of the estate in 1726, at the end of the 18th century, Uzkoye gained fame as one of the best landscaped landlord estates in the Moscow region. Golitsyn Uzkoe owes its architectural flourishing. The last owners only supplemented and rebuilt the ensemble, which was basically formed in the 1770-1780s. Considerable attention was also paid to the landscape - a park was laid out, ponds were arranged. architectural structures, created under the Golitsyns, formed the artistic appearance of the estate.
Many of those who owned the estate became prototypes of the heroes of literary works. So, Princess Natalia Petrovna Golitsyna is the old countess in Pushkin's The Queen of Spades. And Famusov’s exclamation: “What will Princess Marya Alekseevna say!”; also refers to the owner of Uzkoy, Maria Alekseevna Golitsyna, by her husband Tolstoy, a former maid of honor, whose opinion is equivalent to the opinion of high Moscow society.
During the war of 1812, Uzkoe suffered significantly. The French army came out of burned Moscow on October 5, 1812 along the Old Kaluga road, ruining the villages and villages located along it. Evidence of the presence of the French in the estate was the trace of a cannonball on one of the bells of the church, from where, according to legend, Napoleon himself watched the movement of the "Great Army". Similar legends about the alleged personal visit of the emperor are typical for the areas along the path of the French from Moscow.
From the beginning of the 19th century, agriculture, taking into account the latest European achievements, was put at the forefront in Uzky. The greenhouse remained from the Golitsyns. The economy was multiplied and began to be conducted on a grand scale. New well-equipped greenhouses and greenhouses appeared. There were more than a dozen of them. In 1850, their number is reduced to one, the same one that exists in our time.
As newlyweds, Maria Nikolaevna and Nikolai Ilyich Tolstoy, the father and mother of Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, spent time at the Uzkoye estate. During the tenure of the Uzky Tolstoy, the manor composition basically acquired modern features. The greenhouse and hothouse economy neither before nor after has acquired such grandiose proportions. It largely determined further fate narrow.
In 1883 Uzkoye passed into the possession of Prince Pyotr Nikolaevich Trubetskoy, a sociable and energetic person. His brother Sergey Nikolaevich Trubetskoy, a humanities scholar, since 1905 - the rector of Moscow University, maintained friendly relations with the outstanding scientific philosopher and poet of the "Silver Age" Vladimir Solovyov. In the summer of 1900, the friends met in Uzkoy, hoping to have a rest together. But fate decreed otherwise. Solovyov fell seriously ill and on July 31 died in Trubetskoy's arms. Since then, Uzkoye has been associated with the name of the great Russian philosopher. Under Trubetskoy manor park, passing into the larch forest, has undergone reconstruction. Narrow was not enriched with new outstanding structures. The activity of the owners was aimed mainly at the preservation of existing buildings. The rebuilt manor house has lost most artistic merits that distinguished him earlier, which indicates a decline in taste. The death of Vladimir Solovyov brought fame to the estate, which has since become a place of pilgrimage for his admirers. Later, in the room where he died, there will be a library, but even today it is called the Solovyov Room.
In the post-revolutionary years, Uzky was lucky. Most of the landowners' houses and estates were swept away by the "revolutionary element" as "the haven of class enemies." Uzkoye, as they say, "got off with little bloodshed." In the first years of Soviet power, Uzkoe protected from destruction exemplary land use on the estate - agriculture and gardening. In the future, Uzkoye turned into a sanatorium for the rest of the scientific intelligentsia.
Sanatorium "Uzkoe" was opened in the estate in 1922. Almost all of the country's leading scientists, academicians and corresponding members of the USSR Academy of Sciences, cultural and art figures rested and worked in the Narrow. In 1931, English playwright B. Shaw visited Uzkoye, accompanied by A.V. Lunacharsky, who arrived in the USSR for ten days. There they met with K.S. Stanislavsky, who was on vacation. B. Shaw said about Konstantin Sergeevich that he is “the most beautiful person in all the globe". In 1935, V.I.Vernadsky and Academician A.N.Severtsov posed for I.E.Grabar, filling in the gaps in the portrait gallery of outstanding Russian scientists.
During the Great Patriotic War, when the Germans were near Moscow, it was turned into a field hospital, and in 1943, during the war, Uzkoye again opened its doors to vacationers.
K. Chukovsky created memories of Vl. Mayakovsky here, L. Leonov worked on the chapters of the novel "Russian Forest". And how many poems about the Narrow were written by the poets B. Pasternak, A. Bezymensky, S. Vasiliev, S. Marshak, V. Lugovskoy, Yakub Kolas!
On August 30, 1960, after the inclusion of Uzkoye into Moscow, part of the buildings, according to the Decree of the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR (church, horse yard), as well as the park with ponds, were put under state protection as monuments of architecture and garden and park art.
On December 4, 1974, another Decree of the Council of Ministers referred several more objects to their number: the main house of the estate, the southern wing, the greenhouse and the service building.
Other buildings: the northern wing, the glacier, the manager's house, the three gates - northern, southern and western ("heavenly"), as well as the forge are not under state protection. Until now, the art collection located in the sanatorium does not have a special status, which caused the loss of a number of values.
Church - five-domed, stone, built by the Streshnevs, now is one of interesting monuments Moscow architecture. It was built in the style of the Moscow "Naryshkin" baroque, characteristic of the capital's architecture of the late XVII-XVIII centuries. It was brought under the roof by 1696. On August 2, 1990, the Uzky Church was given to the Patriarchy. At the time of the transfer, the building was a book depository, so its consecration took place only on April 26, 1992.
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Only own photographs were used - date of shooting 06/01/2009 and 07/26/11Moscow, Profsoyuznaya st., 123a, 123b
There is no entrance to the territory of the sanatorium.
Official site of the Uzkoye estate
The Uzkoe estate has been known since the beginning of the 16th century. Its main attraction is the Church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God. It was built in 1698 by boyar Tikhon Streshnev, uncle of Peter the Great. This temple is an excellent example of manor architecture in the style of the Moscow "Naryshkin" Baroque.
According to legend, Napoleon watched the retreating French army from the belfry of this church in 1812.
The interior, despite the destruction that the temple underwent during the Second World War, is striking in its elegance. The high space under the central dome and in the side aisles, consecrated in honor of the Finding of the head of John the Baptist and St. Nicholas, amazing in their beauty, provide unique acoustics.
For two centuries, the temple in honor of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God was the center of the spiritual life of the Uzkoye estate, which was owned by different years were the ancient names of the Russian princes Golitsyn, Gagarin, Streshnev, Obolensky, Neyelov, Tolstoy. The last owner of the Uzkoye estate was P. Trubetskoy.
The temple, closed in 1928, was used for many decades as a repository of valuable books, which were withdrawn from scientific and cultural circulation in different years. These are Russian antiques, archives and books of repressed writers, the rarest monuments of church and liturgical literature, captured German libraries and archives taken out of Germany at the end of the war.
In Uzky, the manor complex has been almost completely preserved: a former manor house with outbuildings, services, a manager's house, a glacier, a greenhouse, a horse yard and a smithy, a church, a park with a system of terraced ponds, and three gates. It is by Uzky that one can get an idea not only of the front door, but also of the economic life of a large landowner's estate. However, despite the abundance of surviving buildings, there are no outstanding architectural monuments in Uzkoye, with the exception of the original church of the late 17th century.
The current ensemble began to take shape at the end of the 17th century, when the estate was owned by Vladimir Petrovich Tolstoy, the former possessions of Prince A.F. Gagarin and P.G. Ochina-Pleshcheeva.
Today, on the territory of the estate and in its main house there is a sanatorium Russian Academy Sciences.
Preservation of the Manor Narrow:
1. Temple of Our Lady of Kazan in Uzkoye
2. Main house
3. Forge
4. Horse yard
5. Greenhouse
6. Park
7. Service building
The balance affiliation of the estate is the Academy of Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Northern gate of the Uzkoye estate |
 Old technical buildings of the Uzkoye estate |
 A park |
 Wooden house built in the 1920s |
 The former house of the estate manager Uzkoye |
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