Forgotten farmsteads of Crimea | Shatilov's estate | Montgenet Castle | House of the Yusupovs
Forgotten manors of Crimea
The southern coast of Crimea abounds in palaces and estates built for noble persons, striking with their pomp and unusual architecture. But there are no less beautiful estates in the small villages of the peninsula, which few people know about.
Shatilov's estate
In the Nizhnegorsk region, in the village of Tsvetushche, there is the Shatilov estate, recognized as an architectural monument. This surname is known to few today. Meanwhile, Iosif Shatilov was an outstanding zoologist and agronomist, the founder of the first agrotechnical school in Russia. In Crimea, he spent a total of 20 years. It was he who came up with the idea of ​​artificial afforestation in the steppe zone of Russia. And the first forest protection strip in the South of Russia was planted in the Crimean estate of an agronomist in 1877. Iosif Shatilov was one of the first to draw attention to tarpans wild horses of the Crimea, having published several articles about them. On most of the Azov, Kuban and Don steppes, tarpans disappeared in the late 17th early 19th centuries.
They survived the longest in the Black Sea steppes, where they were numerous back in the 1830s. However, by the 1860s and in the Crimea, only their individual herds were preserved, and in December 1879, in the Tauride steppe near the village of Agayman (now Frunze), 35 km from AskaniaNova, the last steppe tarpan in nature was killed. By the troubles of Shatilov in 1862, a tarpan foal caught in the Crimea (according to other sources, in Kherson) in 1854 was delivered to Moscow in transit through Mokhovoe (the family estate in the Oryol province). He lived out his life in the Moscow Zoological Garden, where he was photographed by Shatilov in 1884.
But back to the Shatilov estate in Blossoming. This estate was built in the middle of the 19th century, three auxiliary rooms have survived to this day: a living room, a grain warehouse and a former coach house (built in 1888).
.Mongene Castle
noble estate built in the neogothic medieval style. The architect was Oskar Andreevich Clausen. By the way, this architect built several more wellknown architectural monuments on the territory of Crimea, which have partially survived to this day.
As you can see, the structure was a 2storey building with a 3storey wing tower. As you can see today, only the facade wall is more or less well preserved. It used to be home to the family coat of arms depicting a mythical animal with a human head. It has not survived to this day. There used to be an orchard around the estate, and in front of it there were small ponds in which ornamental fish swam. There was also a small fountain and a small pool at the entrance to the building. Oddly enough, we see its remains to this day. If you imagine all of the above in your head, you create an image of a rather cozy, relatively luxurious estate, which once delighted not only the eye. As you can see, it is located in a small valley formed by two low hills. Which, at a minimum, protected the estate from strong winds and unwanted eyes. Not far from here, from a bird's eye view, the Simferopol reservoir is visible. Therefore, even at that time, it was not difficult to get to the city from here. As well as vice versa. At a certain period of time in the life of this estate, almost all the world of that time knew it. High receptions and feasts were often held here. The hostess, Countess Mongenet, who moved to Crimea with her husband Adolphe Mongenet, was a wellknown lover of such events. Many guests gathered at the estate.
The Yusupovs' hunting house
On the southern outskirts of the village of Sokolinoe there is an unusual structure, amazing in its beauty and originality. The building of an asymmetrical composition with a tower, drops of tiled roofs and pointed chimneys is the former Kokkoz Palace of the Yusupov princes.
Immediately after the family acquired an estate in this mountainous Tatar village in April 1908, Princess Zinaida Nikolaevna Yusupova wished to have a house “in the local style” there. The palace was built two years later. When in 1914 Felix Yusupov Jr. married the niece of Nicholas II, Princess Irina Alexandrovna, the "hunting lodge" was presented to the daughterinlaw as a gift.
The architect of the Kokkoz Palace was Nikolai Krasnov, the creator of many palaces, villas and mansions in the Crimea, including the Livadia royal palace.
According to family legend, the ancestors of the ancient princely family of the Yusupovs was the Nogai prince Yusuf. Therefore, it was proposed to design a palace in the Crimean Tatar style. Therefore, Krasnov, who for 10 years participated in the restoration of the Bakhchisarai Khan's palace, introduced the corresponding architectural motives of this palace into the appearance of the structure. Crimea 2020 Crimea today