Kuznetsova mansion - two-storey house in which lived the owner of the estate (now the building № 1) , built in 1889 in the style of Russian classicism , designed by architect Billianga . Its interior is decorated with the best masters of applied art. So far, 15 have survived the magnificent wall panels made Yu Yu clover.Mural painted on canvas glued on wet plaster. Probably , this technique allowed the paintings to survive .
They depict landscapes of Central Russia . Alexander G. was seriously ill and had to be a long time in the Crimea .
In 1887, the estate of 300 hectares Foros bought at auction Moscow merchant, 1st guild Alexander G. Kuznetsov - Russia's largest marketer and tea farforozavodchik , the grandson of A. Gubkin , who owned tea plantations in India and Ceylon .
Mansion Kuznetsova its rigorous simplicity ( they do not contradict , however , impeccable style ) as it further underlines the magnificent beauty of the park. Seeing pictures of nature, with balconies that open house , even more established in the idea that the architect's concept was to make invisible all but nature.On the west balcony , overlooking the distant headlands and green carpet of the park, from the south - vast , and every day a new sea in the east - Panorama 15 - 18 kilometers of coastline , from the north - park and forest in the background of which - the ridge of Crimean mountains with majestic rocks and graceful temple, which seems suspended in air.
At about the same time as the mansion was built two -storey building (nowadays it is hull number 2, and 3). These buildings were a guest room , apartment estate manager , and various outbuildings .
Foros was not only a comfortable place to stay and rest, but also a model farm.It was built on 30 hectares of vineyard , built a winery with a wine cellar , the second largest after Golitsinskogo in Yalta . These cellars ( but without the wine) still exist . The estate gave up to 10 thousand liters of wine per year , which was exported to the center of the empire and abroad .
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