Yesterday I tried to do the search, starting from Blakhernae.
This is the former name of the estate Stroganoff-Golitsyn Blakhernae-Kuzminki.
Copied here - a lot, but in my opinion, it is interesting
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Kuzminki were popular at all times of their existence. But most of the manor "Kuzminki received in the 19 century at the time of his affiliation son of Prince Mikhail Golitsyn, Sergei Mikhailovich, who had raised the estate at the peak of fame and has nominated her on a par with such architectural gems and park construction, the St. Petersburg Pavlovsk, Peterhof, Versailles and Paris. No wonder the estate called Moscow Pavlovsky and compared with the Italian sample estates of the last century. According to contemporaries, the village Blakhernae by the abundance of small architectural forms of iron production are open-air museum.
In creating the estate attended by many famous painters, sculptors and architects Ages 18-19: IV Stallion, A. Voronikhin, P. Kazakov, Artari, I. Egotov, Rossi, Campione, AG Grigoryev, MD Bykowski, Klodt, dynasty Gilardi, etc.
In Kuzminki visited famous figures of literature and art .... Kuzminki in his works sung artist Jean H. Rauch, Grabar, Valentin Serov. On the sad charm of dying "Nest of the Gentry told by Anton Chekhov in his story" In Kuzminki "... ..
Rented cottage Dostoevsky in the neighboring manor Lublin, where he worked on his novel "Crime and Punishment." At different times in country houses in Kuzminki lived: architect IM Bondarenko - one of the leading masters of the neo-Russian style, art Grabar ... Since May 12, 1882 in an apartment physician Kuzminskaya st hospital at Slobodka artist lived VG Perov, died on May 29. In Kuzminki to Perov visited his pupil MV Nesterov. June 21, 1890 one of Kuzminskii Summer Resident, some AO Osipov, in Kuzminki visited Fr John of Kronstadt (Sergeyev), rector of St. Andrew's Cathedral in Kronstadt, a preacher and spiritual writer (now canonized). In the summer of 1894 in Kuzminki visited Lenin, who lived nearby at the cottage in the manor Veshki (Tolokonnikova). The last of the Romanov dynasty, visited the Kuzminki May 19, 1901, was the Moscow Governor-General of the Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich and his wife Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna. In 1915, the son inherited Kuzminki S. Golitsyn (from his first marriage) - Prince Sergei Golitsyn (1871-1918), the new owner Kuzminok had a status of "insolvent debtor" and therefore was removed from the management and disposition of the estate, is leased in the last (fourth) wife, S. Golitsyn Princess Anna Alexandrovna, nee Princess Kugushevoy (1869-1950), then lived abroad. After the fire on Feb. 19, 1916, which destroyed the manor house along with the western wing on the front yard, was established by the "administration of the estate to reserved Kuzminki.
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(The manor house burned down in Kuzminki February 19, 1916. The fire lasted almost all day, apart from destroying the Prince's Palace, were kept there on the mezzanine precious antique mahogany furniture, old paintings, a collection of several hundreds of valuable engravings. The press has speculated that the fire arose from the failure of furnace flues, or from the negligence of the officers posted there the hospital.)