В Одинцовском районе Подмосковья на левом берегу The Moscow River has a high (25-30 meters) hill called Nikolina Gora. This is one of the oldest summer cottages, which has its interesting history of origin.
The first mention of a small monastery of the saintNikola on Pesk refers to the year 1473. It arose in the place of the churchyard, and a little later around the little monastery appeared a small selenice of 5 yards, named Nikolskoye on Sand. In the documents there is a record that in 1618 it was here that the solemn meeting of Filaret, who later became the patriarch, was organized. He was returning from Polish captivity. Not far from this small monastery was the village of Aksinino, in the parish school of which in the middle of the XVII century the throne was transferred, and Nikolina Gora, so later began to be called this place, empties for long three centuries.
The second life of this locality begins intwenties, when in the beautiful pine forests of the Moscow region are beginning to actively build summer cottages. In 1922-1925, the dachas were built by the dacha-building cooperative of the workers of the Academy of Sciences and Arts (RANIS). The terrain here is remarkable, the hill is almost completely surrounded by a small river (Moscow), a stream (Maslovsky, or the river Cleaning) and two marshes (Maslovskiy from the north, Aksininsky from the west). Beautiful beaches Diplomatic (loved to travel by embassy staff) and Cowboy gave the charms to these already wonderful places. The ancient forest (pine forest) is the main attraction of these places. The built settlement became popular and was known under the name of Nikolina Gora.
Glory brought him figures of science and culture,who lived here by arrivals or constantly, as the composer Sergei Prokofiev. The whole country knew the names of the owners of the local dachas: O. Yu. Schmidt and P. L. Kapitsa, V. I. Kachalov and S. V. Mikhalkov, V. V. Veresaev and A. S. Novikov-Priboy, M. M. Botvinnik and A. V. Nezhdanova. And a lot of other great people. Present fences in those days were not, world celebrities freely went on a visit, were friends and communicated. In connection with the artist Petr Konchalovsky, Nikolina Gora, the house where his talented children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren lived and stayed, is mentioned much more often than in connection with other figures of science and culture. A large family of Mikhalkovs and Konchalovsky is famous for the fact that each of its representatives is a well-known and public person. They were jokingly called "the nestlings of Petrovna's nest", referring to Granddaughter Surikova, daughter of Pyotr Konchalovsky, wife of Sergei Mikhalkov, mother of Andrei Konchalovsky, Nikita Mikhalkov, Ekaterina Semenova (wife Julian Semenova) - Natalia Petrovna Konchalovskaya. A talented poetess, a children's writer, an interpreter, an incredibly interesting person, she was loved by the whole huge family. Modern people, she is familiar as the author of the translation of the song "Eternal Love". Amazing verses. Nikolina Gora, like Peredelkino, was in those days peculiar cultural centers, where so many people tried to get to.
Now, Nikolina Gora, like other settlements of this kind, is, for the most part, a barbaric village.
One can only say that there is absolutelyall for a full life, all the best that the rich people can offer the Moscow Region. Nikolina Gora has always been a privileged object, but hardly anyone will object to the assertion that spirituality in former times under the "branded" Soviet power here was hundreds of times greater. Here and now there is a cooperative RANIS, headed by Yuri Bashmet. And now the representatives of the "old Rublyovka" are outraged by the machinations around the region becoming a symbol of prestige, the bad taste brought here by the nouveaux riches.
