Charitable Activities of the Apraksin Nobles on the Brasovo Estate of the Orel Province in the Second Half of the XVIII – First Quarter XX Century (by Documents of the Manuscripts Department of the Russian State Library)

Abstract

 The article covers the charitable activities of the Apraksin nobles in the context of the Brasovo estate of the Oryol province (now the territory of the Bryansk region). Little-known documents from the Apraksin family's personal collection at the Manuscripts Department of the State Library of Russia were used to write the paper. Brasovo estate in the 18th – the first quarter of the 20th centuries was one of the brightest examples of multi-branch private property.  The manor afforded almshouses, churches were built, and benefits were paid to the poor and the suffering. Separate attention should also be paid to the fact that the Apraksins continued to provide charitable assistance to the surrounding population after the sale of the estate to the imperial family. In 2019, the Brasovo estate became one of the points on the map of the project «Imperial route», which provides for scientific research, restoration work, and in the future the creation of a museum.  The geography of the Brasov estate is associated with such significant cultural and historical sites of the Bryansk region as:  Kazan Bogoroditskaya Ploshchanskaya hermitage - one of the oldest orthodox monasteries, the railway station «Altukhovo» (the building in pseudo-Russian style of the early XX century), which currently houses the museum of A.D. Vyaltseva, the stud farm «Lokotskaya» (founded in the first half of the XIX century, operates to this day) - one of the leading horse farms of Russia, historical and local history museum of Brasovsky district in the settlement Lokot.