Yerlino estate, Manor house in Erlino, Russia
Yerlino estate is a manor complex in the village of Yerlino, Korablinsky District, Ryazan Oblast. Its brick two-storey manor house, built by Sergei Khudekov after 1891, was later dismantled and only the foundation remains. The grounds cover 35.2 hectares and include a dendrological park, a cascade of ponds, the Church of Michael the Archangel, an obelisk and two restored wings.
In the early 18th century Yerlino belonged to the Verderesvsky family; by the mid-18th century the Ivinsky landowners had built a manor house and the Church of Michael the Archangel. In 1891 the entrepreneur S. N. Khudekov bought the estate and replaced the dilapidated Catherine-era house with a new two-storey brick building, keeping only the church and probably the obelisk. After 1917 the house was dismantled, its foundation remains, and the church served as a machine station and chemical store.
The estate's name is tied to Sergei Khudekov, who bought it in 1891 and rebuilt it; a monument to him now stands in the grounds. One restored wing houses the Yerlino general school, another the estate museum. The park was awarded a medal at the 1900 World Exhibition in Paris.
The estate lies in Yerlino, Korablinsky District, Ryazan Oblast, not Tula. The park covers 35.2 hectares, or 92 hectares with its buffer zone, and is split into four sections: the manor and church, the riverside park, the arboretum and the orchards and greenhouses. One restored wing houses the Yerlinskaya school, another the Khudekov museum.
The park was awarded a medal at the 1900 World's Fair in Paris, a detail few visitors know. Its creator, Sergei Khudekov, was a ballet librettist and publisher as well as a businessman, and he rebuilt the whole estate except the church and probably the obelisk.
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