Izvara, a country estate

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Izvara, a country estate (the village of Izvara, the Volosovo district). Firstly (since 1747) the grange was owned to Count K.E. Sivers. In 1872 St. Petersburg lawyer K.F. Roerich bought the estate with a stone manor-house built in the English Gothic style, the fruit garden and many service constructions. His son, the future painter N.K. Roerich spent his childhood and youth in Izvara. His interest and thirst for art, archaeology and Old Russian history was appeared and developed there. It was promoted being Old Russian burial mounds of the 11-16th centuries not far from the estate. Roerich took part in the archeological expeditions of L.K. Ivanovsky and himself researched some burial mounds. In the early 20th century Izvara was bought by the merchant A.P. Vernader who built some factories, mills, bred trout in the lake. On the eve of the Revolution of 1917 in Izvara the Agricultural School with the Church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God (1916-1917, the architect I.I. Yakovlev) was opened. On present days the manor-house has been restored; some service constructions: stables, cattle yard and others are intacted. In 1984 in Izvara the memorial estate of N.K. Roerich was opened. Chekanova, Olga Aleksandrovna
Ivanovsky, Lev Konstantinovich
Roerich, Konstantin Fyodorovich
Roerich, Nikolay Konstantinovich
Sivers, Karl Yefimovich, Count
Vernander, A.P.
Yakovlev, Ivan Ivanovich
Leningrad Oblast, the/Volosovo District/Izvara Village
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Мурашова Н.В. Сто дворянских усадеб Санкт-Петербургской губернии: Исторический справочник. СПб., 2005., 119-121
Old Russian Kurgans (barrows)
The Church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God (Izvara Village, Volosovo District)
The museum-estate of N.K. Roerich