Description of the attraction
Zheleznov's estate in Yekaterinburg is one of the most interesting and ancient buildings in the city. In its form, it resembles a Russian tower. The manor complex consists of a main house with an outbuilding, a courtyard and a brick fence with a gate. Today the Zheleznov Manor is an architectural monument of local importance. The date of construction is evidenced by the inscription engraved on the weather vane crowning the building - 1895.
The initiator of the construction of the manor complex was the well-known in the city A. N. Kazantsev is a hereditary honorary citizen, a successful attorney at law and an active public figure in Yekaterinburg. A. Kazantsev bought the site in 1891 at an auction from the bankrupt gold miner K. Kharitonov. Around 1905, a merchant of the second guild, A. A. Zheleznov, who settled here with his family.
A. A. Zheleznov was a philanthropist who made his fortune by mining, selling gunpowder and dynamite. His wife Maria Efimovna was secretive, reserved, but at the same time a very beautiful woman who loved nature. It was for her that A. A. Zheleznov equipped a huge garden leading directly to the bank of the Iset River. In 1914, Zheleznov's wife died unexpectedly while in the theater while staging the play Romeo and Juliet by C. Gounod.
In 1917 A. A. Zheleznov and his children decided to leave their estate. In the post-revolutionary years, the house went through difficult times. At first, anarchists were housed within its walls, then a military unit was formed in it, and already with the end of the Civil War, disabled children studied here. After the war, the Zheleznov Manor was again transferred to the Department of Public Education until the Institute of History and Archeology was located here.
