Krasnoe estate, Ryazan oblast, Federal cultural heritage estate in Ryazan Oblast, Russia.
Krasnoe is a protected estate in Ryazan Oblast featuring extensive grounds laid out as a landscape garden. The Church of Our Lady of Kazan serves as the main building, surrounded by service structures that reflect how Russian country estates were organized.
The earliest known owner was Countess N. P. Yaguzhinskaya (died 1778); by 1783 the estate passed to Colonel F. I. Boborykin, and in 1786 the Church of Our Lady of Kazan was founded. General A. P. Yermolov, a former favourite of Catherine II, acquired it around 1790 and built the landscape park, the manor house and the round cattle yard. Construction ended in 1810 with the church's consecration; the architect is unknown, though Bazhenov's name was only hypothesised.
The name Krasnoe comes from a Russian word meaning red or beautiful. The Church of Our Lady of Kazan stands at the center of the grounds and continues to define how the place looks and feels today.
The estate is fenced off and closed to visitors; the former cattle yard now serves as monastic cells with a cross above the entrance. The grounds belong to the Sretensky Monastery's metochion, with the St. Seraphim skete in the former Kazan Church and a children's home nearby. Viewing is limited to what can be seen from outside the fence.
The cattle yard, the estate's most original structure, stands on an artificial peninsula and is disguised as a miniature fortress with four slender towers. An unknown architect set white-stone details against red brick; the resemblance of this jagged, pointed decor to Bazhenov's work at Tsaritsyno led local historians to suggest his involvement. It now serves as monastic cells, with a cross above the entrance.
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