Pokrovskoe is one of the oldest estates of the Chicherin family in the Tambov region. Researchers assume that in the second half of the 18th century it belonged to Tambov governor Dementiy Chicherin. It was he who applied for introducing his family in the 6th part of the noble genealogy of the book on the Tambov province and in 1794 received a diploma for the nobility.
The first truly known owner of Pokrovskoe is the son of Dementiy Chicherin - Vasily, colonel of the Preobrazhensky regiment. In 1828, Pokrovskoe passed into the possession of the heir of Vasily Dementyevich, Nikolay Chicherin. He was a very famous person in the province. Having married the daughter of a Tambov landowner and provincial prosecutor, Ekaterina Khvoshchinskaya, at first he lived with his wife and children in Pokrovskoe.
According to the recollections of the eldest son of Nikolay Chicherin, Boris, ‘The area was pretty deserted; there were almost no educated neighbors with whom it would be nice to have permanent relationships…’ Only when the youngest son Vasily settled here in 1869 with his family, after leaving the diplomatic service, did the estate begin a new life, becoming a center of culture and education.
At the initiative of Vasily Chicherin and his wife Zhorzhina Chicherina and with their direct participation, a school for peasant children, a library and a medical center were opened in Pokrovskoe. The head of the family often treated sick peasants himself, who were brought from all neighboring villages. There his children grew up - Nikolay, Sophia and Georgy, who later inherited the estate.
Usually the Chicherins spent the whole summer in the village. There was a park, orchards, ponds on the territory of the estate. A bathhouse was often arranged on the river, which brought extraordinary joy to the children.
Since the end of the 19th century, Pokrovskoe was pledged in the Special Department of the State Noble Land Bank, in 1898 it was pledged again. The Chicherins tried in every possible way to improve the economic situation of the estate. In 1918, it was nationalized.
In 1931, in the former estate of the Chicherins, the School of Peasant Youth was opened, which became secondary in the 1950s. Currently, the Pokrovo-Chicherinsky secondary school is housed in a brick building of a former master’s house, the facade and internal layout of which have remained the same.
There are two memorial plaques on the building, one of which is dedicated to Georgy Chicherin.
The first truly known owner of Pokrovskoe is the son of Dementiy Chicherin - Vasily, colonel of the Preobrazhensky regiment. In 1828, Pokrovskoe passed into the possession of the heir of Vasily Dementyevich, Nikolay Chicherin. He was a very famous person in the province. Having married the daughter of a Tambov landowner and provincial prosecutor, Ekaterina Khvoshchinskaya, at first he lived with his wife and children in Pokrovskoe.
According to the recollections of the eldest son of Nikolay Chicherin, Boris, ‘The area was pretty deserted; there were almost no educated neighbors with whom it would be nice to have permanent relationships…’ Only when the youngest son Vasily settled here in 1869 with his family, after leaving the diplomatic service, did the estate begin a new life, becoming a center of culture and education.
At the initiative of Vasily Chicherin and his wife Zhorzhina Chicherina and with their direct participation, a school for peasant children, a library and a medical center were opened in Pokrovskoe. The head of the family often treated sick peasants himself, who were brought from all neighboring villages. There his children grew up - Nikolay, Sophia and Georgy, who later inherited the estate.
Usually the Chicherins spent the whole summer in the village. There was a park, orchards, ponds on the territory of the estate. A bathhouse was often arranged on the river, which brought extraordinary joy to the children.
Since the end of the 19th century, Pokrovskoe was pledged in the Special Department of the State Noble Land Bank, in 1898 it was pledged again. The Chicherins tried in every possible way to improve the economic situation of the estate. In 1918, it was nationalized.
In 1931, in the former estate of the Chicherins, the School of Peasant Youth was opened, which became secondary in the 1950s. Currently, the Pokrovo-Chicherinsky secondary school is housed in a brick building of a former master’s house, the facade and internal layout of which have remained the same.
There are two memorial plaques on the building, one of which is dedicated to Georgy Chicherin.
