In the village of Dubasovo in the Gus-Khrustalny district there was an estate of the merchants Komissarovs.
The first mention of the village dates back to the beginning of the 19th century. The name Dubasovo comes from the name of the wasteland where in 1805 Yakov Ivanovich Barskov founded a glass factory. A year later the factory passed into the possession of the merchant of the second guild Philip Kuzmich Komissarov.
Then the factory passed to his son, hereditary honorary citizen Gerasim Filippovich Komissarov.
Then, up until 1917, the factory and estate were owned by the son of the last member of the provincial zemstvo, State Duma deputy, head of the publishing house "People's Law" Mikhail Gerasimovich Komissarov (1867-1929).
The Komissarovs' estate and nearby buildings were generally executed in the forms of classicism.
The Chekhovs are associated with the Dubasovo estate. Here, for two years (1890–1891), the writer’s younger brother, Ivan Pavlovich Chekhov (1861–1922), lived and worked as a teacher at a two-year school.
The only surviving examples of the Komissarov estate are the functioning Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, built in 1886 in the Russian-Byzantine style by G. F. Komissarov instead of the previous wooden one.
Also preserved are the one-story houses for workers of the glass factory from the second half of the 19th century, a complex of hospital buildings and a two-story school in the forms of classicizing eclecticism, built by M. G. Komissarov, and ponds. The main house was lost at the end of the 20th century.
The nearest railway station, Komissarovka, is named after the owners.
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