The Meindorf family[c][d][e] established their estate including the castle Barvikha or the castle of Baroness Meyendorf (Russian: Усадьба Мейендорф) here in 1904 prior to the Russian Revolution of 1917.[7] In 1908, under the Russian ambassador to Denmark, Baron Karl Karlovich Buksgevden [ru], Baron F. M. Meyendorf became a diplomat with rank as a Russia state advisor (equivalent to a colonel) and became the first secretary of the Russian diplomatic mission to Denmark which was a very esteemed honor because TsarNicholas II's mother, the Tsarina Maria Fyodorovna, was born a Danish Princess Dagmar of Denmark.[2]
After the outbreak of the Great War the owners of the castle left Russia for abroad.
During Vladimir Putin's visit to the castles of the Loire valley in 2002, Jacques Chirac commented that Russia had nothing to compare with these French castles.[2] Putin directed his staff to find a castle near Moscow and restore it.[2][5] At only 20 minutes from Moscow, his staff transferred ownership of Bavikha to the Office of the President of the Russian Federation [ru] as the residence of the President and remodeled the 1,300 square metres (14,000 sq ft) manor to the grandest in Russia when it opened for use in November 2008.[2] The Barvikha castle or Meyendorf Manor [ru] is officially called State Residence Barvikha (Russian: «Госрезиденция „Барвиха“») since November 2008 but others (RIA Novosti and Echo Moscow) refer to it as Meyendorf Manor or Meyendorf Castle.[6]
While Gorky-9 (Russian: Горки-9) was undergoing renovations, Dmitry Medvedev, as president of Russia, resided primarily at Barvikha until the Gorky-9 renovations were completed upon which Medvedev primarily resided at Gorky-9 which is 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) from Moscow.[11]
^Meyendorf (Russian: Мейендорф) is also spelled Meiendorf, Meindorf, and Mayendorf.
^In 1679, Swedish lieutenant general Baron Jacob Ikskul at Castle Ikskile in Ikskile, Latvia, of the House of Iksskuli or the House of Uexküll, which used the letters H and X for its house, researched his family line and found that Baron Konrad Meyendorf in the 11th century established the Ikskule or Ikskile castle 28 kilometres (17 mi) from Riga in 1185.[2] This castle and church built in 1186 were located on the high right bank of the Western Dvina or Daugava River.[2] These facts led Jacob Ikskul to realize that the Ikskul line is a Meyendorf.[2] Between 1932 and 1934, Albert Rust discovered the Hamburg archaeological culture which had the oldest known arrows from about 14,000 to 16,000 years ago near Hamburg, Germany, at Meiendorf along the Stellmoore Paleolithic lake [de].[2][3]
^The Meindorf family owned the entire Odintsovo okrug: nearby Usov and its railway, post office and sawmill, which is a closed area today, as well as Likov and the estate of Samynok.[4][5]
^Nadezhda Alexandrovna, the wife of the Minister of Foreign Affairs Baron Mikhail Feliksovich Meyendorf (1861–1941) who was the son of Feliks Kazimirovich Meindorf [ru] (Russian: Феликс Казимирович Мейендорф), held the estate from 1886 to 1917.[6][2]
^Nadezhda Alexandrovna Meyendorf, the daughter of Major General Alexander Borisovich Kazakov who obtained the Podushkino-Rozhdestveno estate on which the castle was built, received the estate as a dowry in 1886 upon her marriage to Colonel General Staff Evgeny Aleksandrovich Verigin in 1882 but became a widow in 1891 and then married Baron M. F. Meyendorf in 1898.[6][2][5] Returning on a Baltic steamboat to St. Petersburg from a European capital with important papers in his briefcase in autumn of 1891, Colonel Verigin inadvertently dropped the case overboard, dove into the stormy Baltic Sea, retrieved the documents, but later had a fever and became ill.[2] He died from his exposure in his wife's arms.[2] Built before the castle, the original manor house burned down in 1892.[5]
References
^ abБлюмин, Георгий (Blyumin, Georgy). Барвиха [Barvikha]. Terra Real Estate. Archived from the original on 25 December 2007. Retrieved 21 February 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^ abcdбондарева, Наталья (Bondareva, Natalia) (2002). Подушкино. Усадьба Подушкино [Podushkino: Manor Podushkino]. «Одинцово-ИНФО» (Odintsovo-INFO) (in Russian). Archived from the original on 21 January 2008. Retrieved 21 February 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^ abcdМитронов, Николай (Mitronov, Nikolay) (20 December 2005). Цитадель истории: Барвихинскому замку — 120 лет [The Citadel of History: Barvikhinsky castle – 120 years]. «Одинцово-ИНФО» (Odintsovo-INFO) (in Russian). Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 21 February 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)