Uzkoye
 |
 |
Uzkoe (
Prince Gagarin, then it passed to Maksim Streshnev, a cousin of Tsarina Eudoxia Streshneva
.
Upon the death of Maksim's grandson in 1692, the ownership passed sideways to a cousin,
Russian architecture. Its design is attributed to Osip Startsev, who was responsible for some of the major Baroque cathedrals of Kyiv
but also worked in Moscow.
Tikhon's granddaughter Sophie was the last of her race; she married Prince
country house swept away and replaced with a Neoclassical mansion, which borrowed many details from its predecessor. It was there that the Russian philosopher Vladimir Solovyov
died in 1900.
After the
Andrei Kolmogorov liked swimming in the local ponds.[2] The church had been stripped of its 17th-century icon screen (its whereabouts are still unknown) and until 1995 it housed libraries which were looted in Nazi Germany by the Red Army.[3] In 1995 it reverted to the Russian Orthodox Church
.
References
- ISBN 1-56396-454-6. Page 27.
- ISBN 0-8218-0872-9. Page 105.
- ^ Sutter, Sem C. 1994. “The Fall of the Bibliographical Wall: Libraries and Archives in Unified Germany.” College and Research Libraries 55 (5): 403–11.
External links
- (in Russian) Official website Uskoe
- (in Russian) Website of the church in Uzkoe
- (in Russian) History of Uzkoe: Online book