AN Manor Peshchurova
   Photo: Manor AN Peshchurova

On the border of the county, in a large scenic river Lies, once housed the famous estate of a rich called Lyamonovo .  Today, on the border with Latvia passing along the roads of the city Krasnogorodskaya you can only see fragments of once wealthy estates .  Lyamonovo is a small village, which according to the administrative division stayed as part of the Intercession in the parish district of the Pskov province Opolochetskom .  Since the second half of the 18th and ending with the end of the 19th century, the estate belonged to the family of Peshchurova whose representative in the person of Alexei Nikitich, was the leader of Opochetsky nobility in the period from 1823 po1828 years that occurred in the years of exile Pushkin A . FROM .  the Mikhailovsky .  Some time later, Alexei Nikitich chose Pskov and Vitebsk civil governor .  He had a son, Alexei, and five daughters .  According to testimonies of local residents, in the churchyard in the village Lyamonovo, family vaults were located Peshchurova family in which were buried the landlord and his wife Elizabeth Khristoforovna, their son and other relatives .  Today the family vaults looted .

Once at the end of 1822 Peshchurova elected leader of the county gentry, he lived permanently in Lyamonovo and doing landscaping his estate. Under the tutelage of the man at the time he appeared AS Pushkin. Pushkin came to Lyamonovo to his friend lyceum Gorchakov, and he, in turn, was the nephew Alexei Nikitich. Before reaching Lyamonovo just 58 miles away, AS Pushkin turned his attention to the high pine trees, which stood right beside the road. According to the classification, it was a giant pine tree that has no equal in volume to all representatives of the Pskov forest.

And Manors . H .  Peshchurova cover 4, 5 acre, and the territory is divided in half the road, stretching from south to north .  From the west of the road is the manor house, which is located on the edges of wings, followed by the house there is designed for the needs of business premises, and on the south side of it you can see the park .  From the north of the gardening area is a small area planted with trees and a small pond and building the smithy .  From the east located Farmstead .  In the old days, right beside the road there is a large room, most likely, it was stable, as well as seasonal and carriage house .  For a large room located cellars and gardens .  Renowned artist Naumov described that Lyamonovo village, at that time, was considered one of the richest and most luxurious of all the villages of the province of Pskov .  Less important hallmark and pride of the village has become a luxurious flora and well-planned park, equipped with multiple light paths, bathing spot and a pond .

It is known that in 1875 the village was located Lyamonovo Orthodox Church, which was built of brick, as well as malt, the distillery and its mill.

During the years 1950-1960 in the place is large enough cattle farm. Around the same time in the area of ​​the park area was built a small dairy. On the perimeter around Lyamonovo we were working on the cultivation of grain, flax and potatoes.

At this point in the park in good condition are lime, maple alleys and larch giant. Park leafy avenue consists of 27 larch trees, one of them dead. Miraculously preserved ash alley, but still a great number of trees were killed. Among aspen and spruce thickets grows five mighty old oaks. Not far from the road and pond are old willow, and in the central part of the park grows majestic Siberian pine. Near the cemetery is alder alley and a swimming pool. Just a few hundred meters from the ash alley to the north, in the thickets of aspen and alder, is a second swimming pool.

All the buildings, previously found on the estate of Peshchurova have long are the ruins, from which only the foundation remained. In late 1992, a cross was erected height of three meters to the place of the demolished church. In June 2004, in the village of Pushkin's birthday was a memorial plaque in honor of his meeting with fellow Lyceum - AM Gorchakov.

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