Roughly Kiev Dr. and Russian Village Rd. between US 6 and the Pomperaug River, Southbury, Connecticut. County/parish: New Haven.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places December 08, 1988. NRIS 88002687.
29 contributing buildings. 6 contributing sites.Also known as:
The Russian Village Historic District, also known as Churaevka (Russian: Чураевка), is a historic summer colony founded by George Grebenstchikoff and Ilya Tolstoy in Southbury, Connecticut. The colony was founded in the 1920s by Russian emigres, and retains distinctive Russian touches in the architecture of its houses, as well as a small chapel designed by Nicholas Roerich. The colony was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/132355522