The Rudinsky–Sergeyev Estate is a historical and cultural monument of regional significance located at Bolshaya Pecherskaya Street, 14 (Nizhegorodsky District). The estate complex took shape in the mid-19th century, was gradually rebuilt up to the early 20th century, and was nationalized in 1918. It is protected by a resolution of the Nizhny Novgorod Region of 11 December 1998 No. 329.[3]
History of ownership
The estate arose at the end of the 18th century in connection with the laying-out of Bolshaya Pecherskaya Street, whose direction was determined by the The 1770 Regular Plan of Nizhny Novgorod. In the early 19th century the property belonged to titular councillor I. N. Bogdanov and his heirs; all the buildings of that time, including the main house, were wooden, and the estate's grounds extended to the parallel Zhukovskaya (now Minina Street), onto which the garden and kitchen garden opened. By the mid-19th century this part of the plot had been separated from the estate, and thereafter its boundaries remained unchanged.[3]
The formation of the complex as it exists today dates to the mid-1850s through the first half of the 1860s, when the estate belonged to civil servant N. Ya. Rudinskaya and her husband, collegiate secretary I. I. Rudinsky. The earliest building of this period was the semi-masonry outbuilding along the eastern boundary of the estate (now house No. 14-b, block B); its design was produced by Nikolai Ivanovich Uzhumedsky-Gritsevich, who also drew up a design for a semi-masonry main house that was never realized. Under a new design, approved in 1862, a two-storey masonry main house was built (now house No. 14, block A), along with a single-storey wooden outbuilding with a mezzanine on a masonry foundation, and outbuildings (a carriage house and a stable); firewalls also appeared at the same time as construction.
Supervision of the construction was carried out by architect I. F. Nebolsin. The author of the main house's design has not been established; it may have been V. I. Rudinsky, who had shortly before been appointed assistant city architect. According to the 1865 assessment book, the estate had two further wooden outbuildings; by the mid-1870s these had been rebuilt in masonry.[3]
Rebuilding under the merchant Sergeyev
In the 1900s the main estate house was extended by its next owner — the merchant A. P. Sergeyev, a well-known timber magnate and a generous benefactor to the cause of public education. The street facade received rich stucco decoration using techniques and details borrowed chiefly from the Baroque and Classicism. At the same time several wooden outbuildings were erected along the estate's boundaries.[3]
Later history
In 1918 the estate was nationalized (municipalized). Residential and public institutions were subsequently housed in the buildings. Owing to new construction within the block, the estate's grounds shrank significantly; the wooden outbuilding and other outbuildings have been lost. Today the complex comprises the main estate house with an attached outbuilding (block A) and a masonry outbuilding (block B); both buildings survive with losses to their original appearance and interiors. Repair work has been carried out on both the main house and the outbuilding. The estate lies within the historic area of "Old Nizhny Novgorod", in the part of the block bounded by Bolshaya Pecherskaya and Minin streets, and adjoins the neighbouring estate complexes on its northwest and southeast sides (houses No. 12 and No. 16 on Bolshaya Pecherskaya).[3]
Sources
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- opentextnn.ru — Appendix 1. List of cultural heritage sites included in the Unified State Register of Cultural Heritage Sites (historical and… (archive)
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