At 160 kilometers from Penza, on the banks of the river Hopper is the famous estate of Sergei Fedorovich Golitsyn. The unique architectural monument of the eighteenth century, immortalized in the paintings of famous artists and stories of contemporaries, today is a dilapidated building, vaguely reminiscent of the palace.

The history of the manor begins with 1776, when Empress Catherine II granted land Privolzhskie Prince Golitsyn for military exploits and impeccable service .  Extensive holdings located in Balashov district of the Saratov province on a huge hill with centuries-old oak groves and a plurality of springs .  In the 1780s were built a palace and park complex, which consisted of: three-storey stone palace with the adjacent wings (theater and a kitchen), Transfiguration Church with the ancestral burial Golitsyn, chapel, bell tower and decorative Gothic .  In the park between the avenues were built fountains, pavilions, three miniature house (Chinese, children and tea) and complementing the beauty of the architectural ensemble was arranged swimming-pool .  Authorship of a unique palace complex, in the absence of documentary evidence, most researchers attributed the two great architects - and . E . Starov and D . Quarenghi . 

The estate takes a lot of famous people: I.E.Krylova, Derzhavin, Radishchev, PA Vyazemsky, Lermontov, Ya.P.Polonskogo. Family Golitsyn famous for charity and in the nearby village of Zubrilova were built for farmers: a school, a hospital, a hospice and a boarding house for children. But the prince's homestead has not escaped the "senseless and merciless" peasant revolt, and the autumn of 1905 all the buildings of the architectural complex was looted and burned. By the time the direct heirs have not been and wrecked the estate transferred to the state.

At the end of the 1930s, the palace was restored for a holiday home political workers, and in 1948 the estate was located tubercular sanitarium. In 1979, the sanatorium basements were flooded by groundwater, which led to the closure of institutions and further desolation of the estate. In the 1990s, it was partially restored Holy Transfiguration Church and the necropolis of Prince Golitsyn.