Petrovskoye-Alabino

Petrovskoye-Alabino (Петровское-Алабино) is a ruined country house near the village of Alabino, in the Naro-Fominsky District of the Moscow Oblast.

The classical house was built in the late 18th century, probably designed by Matvey Kazakov, or perhaps his mentor Vasili Bazhenov, for the Demidov family.

A route through the park to the northeast towards the Desna River was decorated with sculptures, ending with a hill surmounted by a large statue of, originally, Catherine II and later replaced by one of Apollo, which was melted down in 1919.

The main entrance was to the northwest, leading to the church of St. Peter the Metropolitan, where the tomb of Nikita Demidov is located.

It suffered extensive damage in the 1930s, and there are rumours of a plan to blow up the house shortly before Russia was invaded by Nazi Germany in 1941.

The building was in ruins before the beginning of the 21st century, leaving a brick shell with no internal floors or roof, and with only fragments of plaster and some limestone columns remaining.