Gruzino estate

The Gruzino (Russian: Гру́зино) estate near Chudovo, Russia, was constructed by a team of Neoclassical architects under Vasily Petrovich Stasov for Count Alexey Arakcheyev in the 1810s.

Using serf labor, Arakcheyev built Gruzino to one of the most up-to-date estates in Russia at the time.

The celebrated sculptor Ivan Martos contributed a statue of Emperor Paul.

Two months after Arakcheyev's death, Emperor Nicholas gave the estate to the Novgorod Cadet Corps.

Although it is stated officially that the manor was destroyed by the Nazi German troops during the World War II, other sources maintain that the estate was wiped out in the 1930s, during Joseph Stalin's industrialisation process.