Plato von Ustinov

[citation needed] He was a Russian nobleman who held a manor estate in Ustinovka (Устиновка) in today's Balashov Raion.

The couple earned their livelihood through several enterprises, including a steam mill, a pilgrim hostel, and trading in imported European merchandise.

Once his lung disease was completely cured, he returned to Ustinovka, but left the Metzlers a considerable sum of money to enable them to establish a missionary school and an infirmary in Jaffa.

After Metzler fulfilled pastoral functions, preaching and holding service, and established a mission in Jaffa, further trouble arose when Samuel Gobat, the Protestant Bishop of Jerusalem, facilitated the placement of Johannes Gruhler (1833–1905), the Anglican priest of Ramle, at the rather Lutheran Jaffa mission.

Metzler then sold much of his real estate on 5 March 1869 to the Temple Society, a religious group seeking a new home in the Holy Land.

[11] Her father was Moritz Hall (1838–1914), a Jew from Kraków and cannon-caster of Negus Tewodros II of Ethiopia, who was converted to Protestantism by missionaries of the St. Chrischona Pilgrim Mission.

[16] ʾElhādīf (1857–1913) bought exotic plants and trees from all over the world in order to develop the garden of Ustinov's hotel into a botanical park.

[17] German Emperor William II, his wife Auguste Victoria, and their closest entourage stayed at the Hôtel du Parc on their visit to Jaffa on 27 October 1898.

[18] The Evangelical congregation of Jaffa in 1889 consisted of former Templers, Protestant German and Swiss expatriates, and proselytes gained earlier by the Metzlers' missionary efforts.

[19] Ustinov joined that congregation[20] and offered it the hall of his Hôtel du Parc in Jaffa as a venue for services from 1889 to 1897.

[22] On 18 July 1898, Peter Metzler, who then lived in Stuttgart, conveyed his last piece of real estate in Jaffa for the construction of a church to the Evangelical congregation, for which Ustinov paid 10,000 francs, two-thirds of the site's estimated value.

[23] When the Evangelical Immanuel Church of Jaffa was finally built and furnished, Ustinov gave it a large crucifix of olive wood.

His widow Magdalena, who went to live in England and later in Canada, inherited the land in Jerusalem and the partially completed building on it.

"[25] After the end of the British public custodianship of enemy property in Palestine in 1925, Magdalena von Ustinow sold the former mansion in Rechov Auerbach No.