ABSTRACT
In the article, on the example of Novoladozhsky uyezd, the characteristic features of the estates of the highest nobility located in the territory of distant uyezds (Luzhsky, Novoladozhsky, Yamburgsky, Gdovsky) are considered Saint Petersburg Province and in the border regions of the Vyborg and Novgorod provinces. The parameters used in the comparison of representative estates of the upper classes and ordinary noble estates, as well as the differences between the estate complexes of the far and near “belts” are described. The landscape-geographical features of the objects ‘placement and the associated characteristic features of the planning structure are revealed. The average values of the area of the estate territories, the number of buildings and options for their functional diversity, depending on the degree of remoteness from Saint Petersburg, the features of existence, and the duration of residence, are determined. As examples, different in size, but similar in landscape and geographical features (riverine) estates of Novoladozhsky uyezd are considered: large estate Pokrovskoye, medium-Uspenskoye and small-Bardinshchyna
