A short while down the road from the Goncharov Estate is the Chernyshev Estate. In 1717 Pyotr Petrovich Doroshenko sold his share of Yaropolets to Grigori Chernyshev and his descendants went on to develop this estate. In the 1770 the estate comprised a stately home and elaborate gardens, and was even referred to as a Russian Versailles. Like the neighbouring Goncharov Estates it was confiscated after the revolution (it was used by the local hospital and as a sanatorium) and heavily damaged during the Second World War. However unlike the Goncharov Estate it was never restored. But this does not mean it is not worth visiting as the ruins still have a certain charm about them and the overgrown gardens and the crumbling Obelisk to Catherine the Great add to the impression creating the sense of a forgotten world.