Marfino, Gothic estate in Marfino, Russia

Marfino is a two-story pseudo-Gothic mansion with a salmon-pink facade. Two square crenellated towers flank the central section, which has three pointed-arch windows above a balcony with a quatrefoil-pierced railing and three arched doorways. A broad stone staircase leads to the entrance.

Marfino is first documented in 1585. Prince Boris Golitsyn bought it in 1698, renamed it Bogorodskoye and had the serf master V. I. Belozyorov build the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin in 1701–1707. In the 1760s Pyotr Saltykov erected a two-storey baroque palace. From 1837 to 1839 Countess Sofia Panina had the estate rebuilt in neo-Gothic style by architect Mikhail Bykovsky, work finished in 1846.

The estate's name comes from the village it stands in, and its grounds have served the military sanatorium since 1944. In the late 1940s the writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Lev Kopelev worked in Special Prison No. 16, a sharashka of the Soviet security ministry, which Solzhenitsyn described in his novel In the First Circle. A cryptography museum opened on the grounds at the end of 2021.

The estate lies in Marfino village, Mytishchi urban district, about 25 km from the Moscow Ring Road on the high bank of the Ucha. Since 2016 the park ensemble has been open free of charge for non-commercial visits on presentation of a passport; in 2020 entry was closed by quarantine measures, so check current access. The grounds belong to the Marfinsky military sanatorium.

In the late 1940s the estate grounds held Special Prison No. 16 of the Soviet security ministry, a sharashka where Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Lev Kopelev worked; Solzhenitsyn described it in the novel In the First Circle. A cryptography museum opened here at the end of 2021.