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Chapel-tomb merchants Polyakovs

Chapel-tomb of A.Ya. and A.I. Polyakovs, built near the church around 1910 by I.E. Bondarenko with the participation of V. Vladimirov. Brick faced with light decorative tiles and richly decorated inside and out with glazed polychrome ceramics, it is an outstanding piece of art of the Neo-Russian style.

The restoration is currently underway.

 

The Polyakovs are the last owners of the Znamenskoye-Gubailovo estate in the center of Krasnogorsk, Moscow Region.

In 1885 the estate was bought by N.Ya. Polyakov, having arranged a weaving production in the premises of the former factory.

In 1885 his brother, the famous Moscow merchant Alexander Yakovlevich Polyakov, the owner of a cloth and weaving factory, became the owner of the estate.

Subsequently, Znamenskoye-Gubailovo began to belong to Sergei Alexandrovich Polyakov, N.Ya. and A. Ya. Polyakovs, engineer, translator, philanthropist, founder and owner of the Scorpion publishing house, one of the founders of the Libra magazine, which became the cradle of Russian symbolism.

Unfortunately, after the revolution, the fate of Sergei Alexandrovich was rather tragic. Polyakov accepted the loss of wealth after the revolution with philosophical indifference. In 1929 S.A. Polyakov was evicted from Moscow, banned from living in the 5 largest Russian cities. He died in 1943 in Kazan, where he was exiled.

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Uploaded on February 9, 2021
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