Kyarovo, Historical estate in Gdovsky District, Russia.
Kyarovo is a former Konovnitsyn family estate on the right bank of the Cherma River, 9 km north of Gdov near the village of Verkholyane-1. Of the old manor only the cemetery and the stone Pokrovskaya Church remain, built in 1788–1789 as a private family burial vault.
Kyarovo passed to Pyotr Petrovich Konovnitsyn as dowry when he married Anna Ivanovna Korsakova on 17 April 1801. Dismissed from service in 1798, he lived here in seclusion, farming and studying, before returning to St Petersburg in 1806. After his death in 1822 his coffin was brought here, and his widow Anna was buried beside him in 1843. Their son Grigory settled on the estate in 1843, and later descendants were also buried here.
The Pokrovskaya Church was built in 1788-1789 and served as a burial vault for the Konovnitsyn family, with numerous graves preserved inside. The cemetery surrounding the church shows how important this place was to the local family and remains a testament to their presence in the region.
Kyarovo lies 9 km north of Gdov on the right bank of the Cherma River, beside the village of Verkholyane-1. The church is still in use and regular services are held, though it is undergoing repairs, so parts of the building may be closed off. The old wooden clergy house and the granite base of the lost Konovnitsyn monument are the only other traces of the estate.
Until the 1840s the name Kyarovo applied only to a half-farmstead holding a cattle yard, and it was regarded as a corruption of the Russian word for cow. The Konovnitsyn estate itself took the name later. The granite base of a monument to Pyotr Konovnitsyn, set up by his brother Ivan, is all that survives of it.
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