EXEMPLARY ESTATE FARMS AND TOWNS IN THE ECONOMIC SYSTEM OF LARGE AND VERY LARGE ESTATESKURSK REGION IN THE XVIII - 1ST HALF OF XIX CENTURIES

The study is based on the identified archival and published sources, field research of the author, which enable to reconstruct a more reasonably shaped structure is lost in the nobility and merchant estates in the reconstruction of their spatial organization in the border region of Russia. The scientific novelty of the research is associated with the author's expeditions to identify signs of existence and full-scale examination of a number of preserved manor complexes, which previously did not attract the attention of researchers. Of particular importance is the identification of archival and printed sources that allow more reasonably reconstruct the figurative and material structure of the lost elements of noble and merchant estates. The special significance of the complex research work is due to the possibility to fill the gaps in the study of important pages of the history of national and regional Russian culture, which affected the formation of regional features of construction techniques and imagery of architectural ensembles of the estates of the Kursk region.

Kursk region (province), model estates, landscape, composition, planning, gardens, parks, ponds, manor houses, churches, construction, reconstruction