Country estate as the scientific subject and its historiography
The article provides a review of the literature describing and studying the Russian country estate, the aim of this paper is to fix the moment when the country estate became the subject and the purpose of scientific research, as well as to trace the stages of studying Russian estate from the late 18th to the beginning of the 21st centuries. The focus is on regional researching of estates and its role in the development of the estate as an object of scientific study.