Lopukhins' Estate, Architectural estate in Khamovniki District, Russia.
Lopukhins' Estate is a three-story stone building in the Khamovniki District of Moscow, with two residential floors, cellars below, and a two-level porch on its western facade. The building sits on a long narrow plot and shows the typical features of Russian noble architecture from the late 17th century.
The estate was founded in 1689 by Fedor Lopukhin, the father of Eudoxia Lopukhina, who became the first wife of Peter the Great. Over the following century, ownership passed through several hands and the building was used at one point to house Swedish officers taken prisoner during the Great Northern War.
The name Lopukhin comes from an old Russian word for a type of burdock plant. The estate sits in a neighborhood where several noble families once lived side by side, and walking the surrounding streets still gives a sense of how that aristocratic world was arranged.
The estate is in the historic Chertolye area, a short walk from the Moscow Kremlin, in a part of the city where several other noble residences from the same period still stand. Visiting on foot is the best way to take in the surrounding streets and nearby buildings at your own pace.
During excavations in the 1990s, remains of a metal casting workshop from the 17th century were found beneath the property. This means the site was already being used for craft production before any noble family ever moved in.
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