Bugrov's Dacha in Volodarsk is a wooden mansion in the "Russian style," built at the turn of the 1880s and 1890s for the Nizhny Novgorod merchant and philanthropist Nikolay Aleksandrovich Bugrov in the settlement of Seyma (now the central part of the town of Volodarsk). It is located at 6 Klubnaya Street. Since 1989 it has been a cultural heritage site of regional significance.[1] The building houses the Volodarsk District Museum Center.[3]

History and Owner

Nikolay Aleksandrovich Bugrov (1837–1911) was a first-guild merchant, an Old Believer, the owner of the largest flour-milling operation on the Seyma, and one of the best-known philanthropists of Nizhny Novgorod. Mills appeared here beginning in 1867: the first, a water mill, near the village of Peredelnovo, and ten years later a second near the settlement of Novishki. Bugrov acquired the estate on the Seyma by trading A. A. Turchaninov an apartment building at the start of Bolshaya Pokrovskaya Street in Nizhny Novgorod for it.[1]

The dacha stood next to the industrial zone of the plant, on a small landscaped plot. In the Soviet era the center of Volodarsk was not subjected to intensive development, so the dacha grounds survived almost in their original form: the fairy-tale house stands among old lindens and larches.[1] In 1893 the dacha is mentioned in connection with the reception of Finance Minister Sergey Yulyevich Witte, whom Bugrov greeted here at the railway station of Seyma.[1]

Architecture

The two-story wooden house is built in the "Russian style" of the eclectic era. Its characteristic features are a tall, elaborate terem-style roof with a turret-like belvedere, fanciful glazing of windows in a variety of shapes, ornate porches and balconies (some of them false), and an abundance of fretwork carving in the so-called "Ropet-style" ornamentation.[1][3] A drawing from 1897 is signed by the architect Pavel Petrovich Malinovsky, who, according to existing conjectures, may have acted as the executor or author of the design; the direct authorship of Ivan Pavlovich Ropet with regard to this building remains in question.[1]

Researcher of eclectic architecture Ye. I. Kirichenko ranks such buildings among the finest examples of the wooden "Russian style," which revived the folk tradition of using wood as the main architectural material.[1]

Use and restoration

During the Soviet decades the building successively housed the district party committee, a kindergarten, various state institutions, and a Palace of Pioneers.[1] In 1989 the dacha was added to the list of cultural heritage sites of regional significance.[1]

In the early 2010s the building was restored as part of the regional targeted program "Development of Culture in Nizhny Novgorod Region." Sergey Shumilkin, Doctor of Architecture and professor at NNGASU, named the Bugrov dacha among the monuments "saved from decay" during the restoration work of this period.[2] After the restoration, the Volodarsk District Museum Center opened in the building, housing exhibits related to the history of the Bugrov family and of flour milling on the Seyma.[1][3]

Sources

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  2. NIA "Nizhny Novgorod" — The courthouse on Pokrovka, the Balakirev house, the Bugrov dacha in Volodarsk,
  3. nataturka.ru — Volodarsk. N.A. Bugrov's house — Photos — How to get there? (archive)
  4. gttp.ru — The Bugrov dacha in Volodarsk
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In progress, Old Believers of the Nizhny Novgorod Land, Ropet Ivan Pavlovich