Petrovo
Founded no later than the middle of the 18th century. Also referred to as
Arkatovsky Settlement or Nizhnyaya Iya. Formed by the division of the village
of
Arkatovo
. Local sources indicate that the village was named after the
landowner
Petr Aleksandrovich Ilyin
, although his parents bought Petrovo
(probably together with Arkatovo) no earlier than 1834 - that is, much later
than the division of the village of Arkatovo.
Owners
Alexander Ivanovich Ilyin
My parents' estate <
in Petrovo
>, built about twenty years before my birth, was
very picturesque. The garden, of considerable size, located near two dry valleys
with a river flowing through them, has grown magnificently. The pine alley and
the tastefully broken clumps of birch and lilac trees, and several alleys of
trimmed acacias, were kept in great order. A very cozy white bridge spanning
the ravine connected the flower beds near the house with the acacia alleys. Two
huge spruce trees grew near the house. They were already planted as large trees,
and I remember several fathoms in height. A one-story wooden house with a red
wooden roof and green shutters, originally six rooms, as the family grew, it was
extended in both directions and by the time I am describing it consisted of twelve
rooms, very cozy and economically arranged. On the side of the courtyard there
were two identical porches, the front porch and the maiden porch, and on the
side of the garden there was a huge covered terrace with two staircases.
On the left side of the house in the courtyard there was a long one-story
outbuilding with Ustinya Mikhailovna’s room, a white kitchen and a servant’s
room. A little further from the cellar and subsequently in one line, but behind the
bars of the yard, a hut was built for the clerk. To the right of the house there are
carriage houses and a wooden stable, and behind the bars a stable and
a warehouse for machines were also subsequently built from local limestone.
Along the lawn of the yard there were paths trodden in the grass from the house
to the kitchen and from the servants' room to the stables and cellars. The
architecture was all very simple, there were no decorations or carvings, but the
buildings were efficient and durable. The farmyard was off to the side in the
village.
Three grain barns and a master's bathhouse in the garden on a very picturesque
cape made up of two ravines complemented the buildings of the estate. The
garden was especially charming in May, when huge masses of purple and white
lilacs were in full bloom and the nightingales were incessantly singing.
Petr Alexandrovich Ilyin
On the left side of the house in the courtyard there was a long one-story
outbuilding... with a white kitchen and a servant's room. To the right of the
house are carriage houses and a wooden stable.
We do not have exact information about when and how the Ilyins bought
Petrovo. Perhaps the purchase of Petrovo was connected with the purchase of
neighboring Arakatovo by
Alexander Ivanovich Ilyin
in 1834, about which
there is detailed information.
When his son
Petr Alexandrovich
divided the land between his children in
the 90s of the 19th century, Petrovo was given to the family of
Boris Petrovich
Ilyin
.
Boris Petrovich Ilyin
Two huge spruce trees grew near the house.
Along the lawn of the yard there were paths trodden in the grass from the
house to the kitchen and from the servants' quarters to the stables and
cellars
On the garden side there was a huge covered terrace with
two staircases.
Natalya Borisovna and Kirill Borisovich Ilyin
Boris Petrovich Ilyin
I was struck by the precision, freshness, order of this estate and the calm and
silence that reigned in it. No faces stuck out of the windows of these buildings,
there were no cooks or laundresses who would drink tea in front of the
people's kitchen and fill the air with spilling and sometimes noisy singing, as
we have in Siny Bor <
that is, in Shushary
>. There were no children of
coachmen or gardeners who would jump out to meet us and run with a boom
after our troika.
...The terrace went around the entire house. Here there was white summer
furniture on it, and on the table were the latest issues of “Capital and Estate”,
“L’Illustration” and the American magazine “Home and Garden”.
... I would like everything in Siny Bor <i
n Shushary
> to be arranged just as
precisely and in the same order as in Bezdonny <
in Petrovo
>. That our
servants limit their conversations to short mutterings of “I obey” and “As you
command,” and that the peasants are not allowed to pass through our park. A
separate wing should have been built for them, like an office, as was the case
here, where they could discuss their affairs, instead of sitting on the steps of
the kitchen and servants' room, waiting for dad. The isolation that reigned in
Bezdonnoe <
in Petrovo
> seemed intoxicating to me.
From the novel by
Olga Alexandrovna Ilyina
(Boratynskaya)
“Dawn of the Eighth Day”
Olga Alexandrovna Ilyina
(Boratynskaya)
From memoirs of
Boris Petrovich Ilyin
A village in the Pestrechinsky (former Laishevsky) district,
in the Nurminka River basin (the right feeder of the Mesha
River), 60 kilometers from Kazan.
1979 —
79
1989 —
18
2002 —
8
1782 —
27
1859 —
194
1897 —
353
1908 —
411
1949 —
301
1970 —
131
Population:
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