Where, where? In Non-Moscow! The village of Khrenovoe.
There are many unusual names on the map of the country: farmstead Fun Life, village Slut, village Hello AgainToday's story is about the village of Khrenovoe.
📍Despite its name, life in the village is quite good, as the slightly more than 4800 residents will confirm. Khrenovoe is located in the Bobrovsky district of the Voronezh region, 90 kilometers from the regional center. It is famous throughout the country and the world—the world of equestrians.
📍The village was founded at the beginning of the 18th century, and in 1776 Екатерина Вторая granted these lands to the Count To Alexey OrlovHere he is. started to implement His dream of creating his own breed of horses—beautiful, spirited, and hardy. That same year, he began construction of a stud farm (the complex is recognized as a historical and architectural monument).
It took 33 years to develop the famous Orlov breed, founder became a stallion Bars I.
In the following years, the Emperor visited the stud farm. Alexander I, writer Anton Chekhov, marshal Semyon Budyonny. Today, the Khrenovsky stud farm is the largest in the world. It breeds Orlov trotters and produces champions.
Currently, the stud farm is located in the neighboring village of Sloboda, which was formed to accommodate soldiers at the stud farm.
📍There's something interesting and useful in Khrenov for every taste: for example, horse breeding museum, which contains the breed's stud books, awards, harnesses for 19th-century troikas, and much more interesting items. It is also located here. Sanatorium "Khrenovoe"", where they treat with kumiss.
📍The village's name, as expected, is the subject of legend: either Peter the Great or Catherine the Great commented on the local roads, saying they were really bad. In reality, the village's name happened from the Khrenovaya River, along whose banks wild horseradish grew in abundance. This spice is still abundant in the village. The stress in the village's name is on the last syllable: Khrenovоe, and not at all as one might think.
📍 It is interesting that in the Voronezh region there is another village with the same name is the administrative center of the Khrenovskoye rural settlement in the Novousmansky districtHistory is silent on how horseradish grows there.
Photo: Tripadvisor.ru, sanatorium "Khrenovoe"
