The Goose the Iron. Ryazan Region - sights. Gus-Iron: photos

Gus-Zhelezny (the photos shown in this article show the sights of this locality) is an urban-type settlement. It is located in the Ryazan region (Kasimov district), is the administrative center of the Gusev urban settlement. It was located on the Gus River, near the dam, built in the eighteenth century, about twenty kilometers from the administrative center - Kasimov. The village is surrounded by mixed and coniferous forests.

"We lived with the grandmother ..."

"Two gay goose were living at the grandmother's house: Gus-Zhelezny and Gus-Khrustalny," the citizens of the Vladimir province joked in the old days . Both these villages with similar names were in the Melenkovsky district, on the same Gus river. If the first of the Gusei brothers, located in the headwaters of the river, was the center of the glass industry of the famous Maltsov breeders, the brother in the lower reaches of the Gus (near the confluence of the river to the Oka) became the capital of the no less famous and famous "iron kings" - the Batashev brothers. More than one hundred and fifty years "two gay goose" were in the Vladimir region, but in the twentieth century, the fate of the villain divided them with a single movement of the pen. So, after a series of administrative and territorial reforms at the behest of officials, Gus-Zhelezny was in the Ryazan region. However, his story is inseparable from the past of the Vladimir region, and even today, to the border with her from the Goose, it is only ten kilometers.

We set off on the road ...

Usually Gus-Zhelezny (Ryazan region) tourists visit in passing, on the way to the ancient merchant city of Kasimov. Two paths lead to these regions. The first one is from Moscow to Ryazan along Novoryazanskoye Highway (M 5), and from there - along the road P 123 - R 105. The second one - from Moscow immediately to Kasimov (or Goose) along Egorievskoe Highway (R 105). Most often, tourists choose the second option to visit Gus-Iron (the map will help you figure out the route), because this is the direct way. However, not everything is gold that glitters. He has many minuses, Yegoryevskoe highway is for the most part narrow and winding, it is not easy to overtake it. Along it there are many country sites, so the workload is high, resulting in an average speed of 60-70 kilometers per hour. But after a ninety kilometer (there are noticeably fewer holiday villages), it's a pleasure to go.

And the fairy tale comes to an end ...

And now Moscow is behind, the harsh Russian roads begin. Only the car crosses the sign "Ryazan region", the road becomes either bad or very bad. Here there are areas with continuous potholes (and considerable sizes), which alternate with relatively good, but, unfortunately, very short stretches. In some areas, sometimes up to ten kilometers, it is necessary to move (if it can be called a movement) with a snail's speed (15 km / h). It is not recommended to go here at night.

First impressions

The first thing you pay attention to when you get to this village is the majestic silhouette of the temple. It literally reigns over a small river and squat houses. Here the temple subordinates everything to itself, it can be seen from everywhere. It seems that the life of the inhabitants of Gusia-Zheleznoy is concentrated exclusively around him. Before the temple there is a small provincial market. And even among traders there is a slow, measured rhythm of local life. In the town there is a "relic" of the Soviet era - the traditional statue of VI Lenin. As in any other locality of the former Soviet Union, it occupies a central place. In Gus-Zheleznom this square, but here the leader of the world proletariat timidly peeps out from behind bushes, he does not even pretend to have any more or less significant role in the life of the settlement. The hulk of the temple simply reduces Ilyich to the rank of a private object. Earlier, during the heyday of metallurgical production, this Trinity Church was a real city cathedral. But we will talk about it a little later.

Andrey Batashov

The active development of the surrounding villages on the Gus River began in the middle of the eighteenth century when representatives of the well-known Russian dynasty of Tula blacksmiths and armourers Ivan and Andrei Batashov (on the main square of Gus-Zhelezniy they erected a monument) founded their iron foundry. It was part of an impressive empire, which included 18 metallurgical plants in different provinces (yielding to the smelting of pig iron only to the factories of Yakovlev and Demidov). This settlement was first named Gus-Batashovsky, and then, in time, was renamed Gus-Iron, unlike his brother Gus Maltsovsky-Khrustalnogo, and his sole owner was one of the brothers - Andrei Batashov.

Batashov Manor

Andrei Rodionovich arranged a manor in the village "Eagle's Nest." In addition, a dam was erected on the river for its funds (it was partially preserved). The main house of the estate (late 18th century) is close in architectural style to the typical urban public buildings of that period: very extensively along the longitudinal axis, has strict, practically devoid of decorative elements facades. He is not very remarkable. But among the provincial contemporaries, the mansion caused very different feelings, all resembling "its a medieval castle, or a fortress". And this is easily explained, because the house with the garden adjoining to it was surrounded by a stone wall up to seven meters high (today it was partially preserved), and at the entrance to the dam a watchtower with a huge iron goose was erected on its spire. In addition, the estate housed a poultry house, a menagerie and a serf theater. In a garden divided into three parts, greenhouses and gazebos were built, in which various exotic fruits were grown: peaches, oranges, lemons.

Gus-Zhelezny: sanatorium

Today, the children's sanatorium is located on the territory of the mansion. This specialized treatment and prophylactic institution carries out rehabilitation of children after acute illnesses they have suffered, and also works to prevent chronic diseases and increase the level of health in children aged 5-15 years.

Legends of an ancient manor house

One part of the park area was very eloquently called "The Garden of Horrors". The appointment she had the appropriate name - for torture and punishment. In addition, according to legends, there is a rather extensive underground complex under the estate, thanks to which the main house was connected with the plant and various buildings. There are many eerie legends associated with the estate. For example, according to one of them, in the Batashov dungeons, runaway convicts minted counterfeit money. And when the investigative commission came to investigate these rumors, Andrei Batashov ordered to fall asleep, thereby burying the workers alive. According to another legend, the police officer arrived at the plant to investigate the criminal case, disappeared without a trace, and after some time a human skeleton was found in the wall of the plant, and only through the brass buttons on the suit were able to identify the missing official in it.

In general, the legends of secret burials and hidden in the underground manors of untold treasures throughout the nineteenth century excited the minds of many people, but to this day they have not found reliable evidence. Andrei Rodionovich Batashov peacefully ended his life in the estate without ever being sued, despite the fact that his "record" list is quite impressive: there are murders, kidnappings, bribery of officials, seizure of property.

Gus the Iron: temple

Monumental Trinity Church was laid after the death of A. R. Batashov, with his son, as early as 1802. Completion of construction work was in the 1840-1860 gg. In the church interesting features of various styles and styles (classicism, neo-Gothic, baroque) intertwined; In the ascending arrow-shaped niches there is something Moorish. All elements (profiles, pilasters, arches, lancet windows) - this is not just a decor, but "flesh from the flesh" of the architecture of the building itself. All of them form a single whole, it is this harmony of the image which strikes most: the church, even now, despite the cracks in the walls and the collapsing masonry, resembles a monolithic block sticking out of the ground.

In our days Batashov's homestead is somewhat reminiscent of idyll, depicted in the paintings of old masters. So, in a park in the background of pavilions and walls graze cows, somewhere in the distance a church with a long-standing clock tower clock rises. Observing such a picture, you involuntarily catch yourself thinking that all this exists as if in timelessness, and the life boiling next to it does not have power over this space.