"The result of the management is complete ruins": the Obolenskys' Nizhny Novgorod estate was seized from its private owner.
How to сообщает the Guardians of Heritage publication, citing the government Nizhny Novgorod area, this decision was made “due to the poor condition of the estate” and the owner’s unwillingness to preserve a cultural heritage site of regional significance.
If the court decision is not challenged, the property in the village Red Hill will be sold at public auction, and the former owner will be refunded the proceeds from the sale.
Specify, The estate, built in the 19th century on a royal scale, belonged to To Platon Sergeevich Obolensky-Neledinsky-Meletsky. She is represented It is a real castle with towers, a covered terrace, a fountain and a park organized according to the latest fashion trends with landscaped descents to the river.
Now only ruins remain.
According to the Heritage Guardians, until the 1990s, the estate housed the local state farm's community center, and even the oak floors from the princely era were preserved. But afterward, the state farm went bankrupt and sold its community center to Firma Rossiya. Vyacheslav Golubeva. Like that one He claimed According to local press reports, he paid $6 million for the estate and planned to restore it. But he never did.
Let us clarify that now, after the confiscation, the state will be able to sell the estate again.
And this isn't the first Nizhny Novgorod cultural heritage site to fall into ruin. In mid-May, another private owner confiscated Soviet neoclassical cinema "Rodina" from 1958.
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