The first owner of the estate was Dmitry Aleksandrovich Tolstoy, brother of P. A. Tolstoy. He received the estate during the distribution of Belarusian estates from Catherine II and turned Grudinovka into a flourishing family estate. During the war of 1812, Dmitry Alexandrovich was the governor of Mogilev from 1812 to 1813. He was buried in the Strudin church in 1832.
The last owner of Grudinovka was Countess Alexandra Grigoryevna Tolstaya, born Princess Shcherbatova. Near Grudinovka in 1899, she built the Ryzhkovsky hospital at her own expense, which has survived to this day[2]. The best doctors of the Mogilev province worked in the hospital. Countess Alexandra Grigorievna paid for the work of medical personnel from her own savings, every year she came to the estate and visited the hospital with her two daughters. For newborns, the Countess brought a special children's dowry. In 1905 she was a member of the Bykhov District Committee of the Red Cross. In addition to the estate in Grudinovka, she had a house in St. Petersburg, on Mokhovaya Street. Countess Alexandra Grigorievna died and was buried in Paris in 1925.
During the Great Patriotic War, the building of the estate was adapted for a hospital. After the war, there was a secondary school, an orphanage, a sanatorium boarding school for children with rheumatism.
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