Description of the attraction
At the very beginning of the 19th century, the Maryinsko estate, or in the old way Devil's, belonged to A. V. Druzhinin's mother, and from the middle of the 19th century it became the property of Druzhinin himself. The Devil's estate has always been the ancestral estate of the Druzhinin family. The writer Alexander Vasilyevich Druzhinin left a deep mark in literary life, because it was he who became the author of such stories as "Polenka Sachs", as well as "Sentimental Journey of Ivan Chernoknizhnikov to St. Petersburg Dachas."
Druzhinin was born on October 8, 1824 in the city of St. Petersburg. The writer's father Vasily Fedorovich served under Catherine in the ranks of the Izmailovsky Life Guards regiment. Mother Maria Pavlovna was previously married to F. D. Shiryaev, and after his death she married V. F. Druzhinin, a collegiate adviser. During 1847-1856, Alexander Vasilyevich Druzhinin published in the Sovremennik magazine, and was also an outstanding literary critic of this magazine immediately after the death of V. G. Belinsky. From 1856 to 1860, Alexander Vasilyevich was the editor of the magazine "Library for Reading". The greatest period of the writer's life was spent in the city of St. Petersburg, although every summer Druzhinin came to his country estate.
The manor house was built by the writer's father not far from the village, right on the shore of a beautiful lake, which was more than one verst long and about a hundred fathoms wide. In the 17th century, the lake had the name Chertovo, which corresponds to the name of the former owner - DI Chertova; in modern times, the lake is called Maryinsky.
The border with the neighboring estate ran along the lake. Vasily Fedorovich built an estate on an elevated lake shore. Judging by the documents for the house, the following buildings belonged to the specified object: a two-story house with twelve rooms built of wood, a kitchen nearby with three more rooms, an outbuilding that includes three rooms, a glacier, a house for workers, a barn, a stable, a stone-built stockyard, a stone bathhouse, a gardener's house with a greenhouse, a barn for storing bread, a threshing floor, and a lakeside laundry.
The house had two orchards, consisting of fruit trees, mainly apples, and berries. There were greenhouses and vegetable gardens nearby. The manor park was located on the shore of Lake Maryinsko. The age of nearby trees reaches more than 120-140 years, which is not to say about oaks, which are 200-300 years old, and some species have been growing for more than 500 years.
The writer himself was very fond of spending time in the backyard outbuilding. The outbuilding is presented as a one-storey one with a large spacious room equipped with three windows on both sides; on the side there was a porch and a staircase that led directly to the garden; there was also a corridor with a stove, and behind it there were three small rooms that served as premises for the minister and for official purposes. From the corridor one could get into the courtyard. There were sofas along the perimeter of the walls of the large room - it was here that guests who came to Alexander Vasilyevich, including Turgenev I. S., Nekrasov N. A., Grigorovich D. V., were accommodated.
During the 20s of the 20th century, the outbuilding was gradually dismantled and moved to another place in the same village of Maryinsko. Here it was recreated anew, which can be said about the repeated marks on the existing logs. As a result of the work carried out, the building became residential. It is clear that the roof is not at all the same as that of the previous wing, because only the frame was moved to another place. From the large windows, you can immediately understand that the building was not the property of a simple peasant.
Died A. S. Druzhinin in 1864 from consumption, was buried at the Smolensk cemetery in St. Petersburg.
