Utkina Dacha
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Utkina Dacha
(Utkin Dacha) is an XVIII century architectural ensemble in St. Petersburg, near Okkervil and Okhta rivers junction. It is included in Russian cultural heritage register
under number 7810250000. During recent years, it was abandoned.
Prior to the founding of Saint Petersburg
this land near the Nyenschantz fortress was owned by Swedish colonel Okkervil. Later the chief of the Secret Chancellery
general Andrey Ushakov became an owner. In the middle of the XVIII century this land was granted to Agafokleya Poltoratsky and her husband Mark Poltoratsky as an award for their involvement in opera productions.
Manor of Okkervil was managed by their daughter Agafokleya Sukhareva, who also owned the neighboring site upstream the river Okhta. One of their daughters, Elizabeth, became the wife of A. Olenin. Alexander Pushkin fell in love with another their daughter, Anna Olenin, granddaughter of Poltoratsky. Pushkin asked for her hand in the summer of 1828, but was turned down.
There is a speculation that the designer of the manor was the famous architect Nikolay Lvov
. In the 1820–1830's a service building was erected.
After the revolution of 1917, the estate passed to the Commissariat of Health, and housed Malookhtinsky office of the 2nd psychiatric hospital. In the late 1930s, parts of the buildings were re-planned for residential apartments, while other premises were used by various institutions.
Dacha
Dacha is a Russian word for seasonal or year-round second homes often located in the exurbs of Soviet and post-Soviet cities. Cottages or shacks serving as family's main or only home are not considered dachas, although many purpose-built dachas are recently being converted for year-round residence...
(Utkin Dacha) is an XVIII century architectural ensemble in St. Petersburg, near Okkervil and Okhta rivers junction. It is included in Russian cultural heritage register
Russian cultural heritage register
The national cultural heritage register of Russia is a data bank of historically or culturally significant man-made immovable properties – landmark buildings, industrial facilities, memorial homes of notable people of the past, monuments, cemeteries and tombs, archaeological sites, and cultural...
under number 7810250000. During recent years, it was abandoned.
Prior to the founding of Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea...
this land near the Nyenschantz fortress was owned by Swedish colonel Okkervil. Later the chief of the Secret Chancellery
Preobrazhensky regiment
The Preobrazhensky Regiment was one of the oldest and elite regiments of the Russian army. Along with the Semenovsky regiment also served as a gendarmie unit for the state Secret Chancellery in the 18th century, headed by the Prince Fyodor Romodanovsky.It was formed by Peter the Great in the late...
general Andrey Ushakov became an owner. In the middle of the XVIII century this land was granted to Agafokleya Poltoratsky and her husband Mark Poltoratsky as an award for their involvement in opera productions.
Manor of Okkervil was managed by their daughter Agafokleya Sukhareva, who also owned the neighboring site upstream the river Okhta. One of their daughters, Elizabeth, became the wife of A. Olenin. Alexander Pushkin fell in love with another their daughter, Anna Olenin, granddaughter of Poltoratsky. Pushkin asked for her hand in the summer of 1828, but was turned down.
There is a speculation that the designer of the manor was the famous architect Nikolay Lvov
Nikolay Lvov
Nikolay Aleksandrovich Lvov was a Russian artist of the Age of Enlightenment. Lvov, an amateur of Rurikid lineage, was a polymath who contributed to geology, history, graphic arts and poetry, but is known primarily as an architect and ethnographer, compiler of the first significant collection of...
. In the 1820–1830's a service building was erected.
After the revolution of 1917, the estate passed to the Commissariat of Health, and housed Malookhtinsky office of the 2nd psychiatric hospital. In the late 1930s, parts of the buildings were re-planned for residential apartments, while other premises were used by various institutions.