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Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin was a Russian writer and historian, an Active State Councillor, an honorary member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences (from 1818), and the sole official historiographer of the Russian Imperial Court (from 1803).

The village of Oznobishino, located approximately 8 km from the centre of Podolsk, has an ancient history.

The history of the village Voskresenskoe, known in Soviet times as Ptichnoe, is inextricably linked with the history of the estate of the same name. Its origins lie in the local church that gave the settlement its name-a classic example of Central Russian toponymy.

Staro-Nikolskoye Estate was founded in 1660 on the left bank of the Desna River by Boyar Fyodor Mikhailovich Rtishchev, a close associate of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, on the lands of the abolished St. Nicholas Monastery.

Saltykov Estate (Krasnoye, also known as Krasnaya Pakhra) is a historical estate near Moscow from the 17th to early 20th centuries, located in the village of Krasnoye in the Troitsky Administrative District of Moscow.

Izmalkovo is a former estate of the Samarin family, located near Moscow and dating from the 18th to the early 20th century.

Pokrovskoye-Valuevo (formerly Nastasino) is a well-preserved estate that belonged to the scholar-nobleman A.I. Musin-Pushkin, situated on the banks of the Likova River in the village of Valuevo, the Moscow Region.

The Ostafyevo Estate Museum is an outstanding monument of Russian manor culture from the late 18th to the early 20th centuries, located in the modern Shcherbinka district (Moscow).

Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky (real name – Nikolay Korneychukov) was a Russian and Soviet poet, publicist, literary critic, translator, literary scholar, children’s writer, and journalist. He was a laureate of the Lenin Prize (1962) and a recipient of the Order of Lenin (1957).