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The first owner of the plot at the 9th verst of the Peterhof road was the Siberian tsarevich Vasily, a descendant of Khan Kuchum, sent to the Russian court. In 1718, he was exiled as one of the participants in the case of Tsarevich Alexei. The estate was granted to the head of the secret investigative office, General Andrey Ivanovich Ushakov. In 1720, the site had only a hut and a cattle yard. But by 1745, there was a manor house with outbuildings, a park, and two ponds, and by the road, a "foreign innkeeper Ulyan Ulyanov's yard" was built with a tavern and brewery. Possibly, the name "Ulyanka" originated from here. Pylyaev writes that it came from the tavern of the Chukhonka Ulyana. Some researchers associate this name with the Finnish village Ulyalya, which was located in this area.
After Ushakov's death in 1747, the estate passed to his stepson S. F. Apraksin, and after Apraksin's death in 1758, the manor was owned by Peter III’s courtier A. I. Glebov.
By the mid-1770s, the dacha already belonged to Nikita Ivanovich Panin. In 1780, N. I. Panin died, and the estate changed hands several times in a short period: Prince S. Meshchersky, Count P. I. Panin, Prince S. A. Menshikov, and Count N. P. Panin. According to Georgi, P. I. Panin’s dacha was wooden and consisted of three buildings in a row, connected by colonnades.
In 1806, Nikolai Petrovich Sheremetev bought "Ulyanka" from Count Panin. After the death of his beloved wife
P. I. Sheremeteva (Zhemchugova), N. P. Sheremetev devoted the rest of his days to raising his son and charity. According to family tradition, he sought solitude at the "Ulyanka" estate after his wife's death.
By that time, Count Panin’s house had deteriorated, and the mansion was rebuilt under the guidance of academic architect Jeronim Dominikovich Korsini. On the site of the old wooden house, a stone palace was erected, and a picturesque pond with a square island was dug in front of it. The palace was furnished modestly.
After his father’s death in 1825, Count Dmitry Nikolaevich Sheremetev ordered the old manor house to be rebuilt, the living quarters repaired, and the rooms furnished. Friends of the owner, comrades from the Cavalry Guards Regiment, often visited "Ulyanka".
Count Alexander Dmitrievich Sheremetev—the last owner of the "Ulyanka" estate—was a well-known musical figure, composer, honorary chairman of the Musical Historical Society, and conductor of the symphony orchestra.
At the estate, the count founded the "Voluntary Fire Brigade named after Peter the Great," consisting of 13 squads scattered throughout the Peterhof road area. At his own expense, together with Alexander Pavlovich Chekhov, brother of Anton Chekhov, Alexander Dmitrievich regularly published the magazines "Firefighter" and "Fire Depot".
The ensemble suffered significant damage in 1918: local residents tore up the dams and released water from the ponds in search of the "count’s car with treasures." However, overall, the ensemble was preserved. During the Great Patriotic War, Ulyanka was almost completely destroyed.
On the site of the destroyed manor house now stands a gray brick building of the interschool educational and production complex on a high foundation, built in the mid-1950s, repeating the general outlines of the palace. In the depth of the block to the south of it, several old oaks have been preserved, some of which were destroyed quite recently. The regular pond at the foot of the ridge between the former palace and the road has remained untouched since the times of the stern grandfather of the sinister Lady of Spades.
Sources:
Pylyaev M. I. Forgotten Past of the Suburbs of Petersburg. - St. Petersburg: "Paritet", 2002, pp. 144-145)
