Podiachevo estate was founded in the last quarter of the 18th.

 

From 1802 to the middle of the 19th passing to the Olsufyev family until 1917. The most significant period in the history of the estate was when Tolstoy and Mendeleev stayed at Nikolskoye (this is the former name of the village).

 

The village was renamed in honour of the Soviet writer Podyachev (1866-1934), who was born there.

 

The manor ensemble represented at Nikolskoye is clearly divided into a different sections: the entrance, the household and the garden. The focal axis, marked by the entrance alley, runs behind the main building through the garden and ends at two-level ponds. The buildings are laid out almost symmetrically to this axis. The buildings from the 1880s are of little interest; they are not connected to the estate either artistically or functionally, and are located outside of the main territory.

 

Built at the beginning of the 19th mezzanine. It is a wooden, stuccoed building on a base of white stone. It is a typical example of classicism, decorated at the front with a portico (loggia) and an extended pediment. Its main feature was once an elegant hall with a painted ceiling and access to the garden.

 

The brick wings are architecturally even simpler and more laconic than the manor house, to which they are linked by means of covered arcades, one of which has been lost. There used to be conservatories in the semi-circular windowed galleries. Full glazing saved heat-loving plants like lemons plants and tropical flowers from the rural cold.

 

St. Nicholas Church (1794), which was built in a style typical of early classicism, has a prolonged longitudinal shape. The two rows of windows in the church have an adjacent altar and refectory with a three-tiered prismatic bell tower crowned with a spire.

 

However, according to many art critics, the main attraction of the Nikolskoye-Obolyaninovo estate is its landscaped garden, which s ‘one of the finest examples of landscape garden art of the late 18-19th century by the merchant P. Vlasov. century it belonged to Obolyaninov family, before  century, the manor house is a single-storey building with a  centuries in the suburbs of Moscow’.