The Kurakins' estate in the village of Andreevsky

Not far from the Rybinsk reservoir, on the banks of the Ild River, there is a place called Andreevskoye. There are traces of one of the many Mologa estates– the Kurakins estate, preserved here. These lands once belonged to the Musin-Pushkin family, including Alexei Ivanovich, who discovered the texts of the "Words about Igor's Regiment" to the world. During his lifetime, English gardeners laid out a park, several ponds and trees of which have survived to this day. The landscape park covered an area of more than 3 hectares. The manor complex was built in the Romantic style fashionable at that time, which used elements of styles and decorative techniques of medieval architecture. In the first half of the 19th century, the estate passed into the possession of the Princes of the Volkonskys.

The cultural monument is named after the last owner of the estate, Prince Anatoly Alexandrovich Kurakin, wife of Elizabeth Mikhailovna Volkonskaya. He's rebuilding the manor house. The prince is building a brick kitchen building and a gallery from it to the residential wing – they, unlike the house, have been preserved. On his orders, ponds are being cleared and the park area of the estate is being brought to a modern look, a brick factory and oil mills are being built, the town and the neighboring village of Marino are being improved. Thanks to Kurakin, Andreyevskoye finds a new life.

During the revolution, the estate was nationalized. The apartment building was dismantled in the 1930s for the needs of the workers. At various times, the remaining brick office wing housed a prison camp, a state farm, and an agricultural cooperative. The preserved buildings are really atypical for Yaroslavl lands. The tower of the kitchen building is decorated with asymmetrical windows, and the upper observation deck offers views of the entire estate. The semicircular gallery was glazed, and in the center of it there was an arch, through which the road led to the river. From this shore, you can see the Church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the village of Maryino, built in the 18th century by decree of A.I. Musin-Pushkin.