“Ropshinsky Ponds” is a cottage village, it is an ecologically clean place, which is located just 30 kilometers southwest of St. Petersburg. It implements an excellent transport system, has its own school, shop, cafe, hospital of regional significance, as well as fully modern housing, connected to all communications. On an ongoing basis, the territory of the Ropshinskiye Prudy KP is guarded by video surveillance systems and on-duty by professional employees of security companies.
Cottage Village "Ropshinsky Ponds". Description
The territory of the village includes 91 modern built cottages with all the necessary communications for life and a well-developed surrounding infrastructure.
Thus, the location of the “Ropshinsky Ponds” deserves special words. You can get to the city by private car along the Ropshinsky highway, maintained in excellent condition all year round. St. Petersburg is only 30 kilometers or 20 minutes away without traffic jams.
In the nearest settlements public transport runs from the metro station Prospect Veterans. The stop is located within walking distance from the entrance to the village.
The entire territory of Ropshinsky Ponds is fenced and is under round-the-clock surveillance. Roads of the second and third stage are laid inside the village. Quite a rare occurrence - all individual sections are fenced in a single style with decorative fences.
House solutions are not offered as standard, but unique, but supporting a common design style. Land plots vary in size from 10 to 26 acres and are transferred to private use by buyers. The area of the houses and the number of storeys are also different: most houses have two floors, but some have an attic. The proposed area is from 167 square meters. m to 264 square meters m
All communications are immediately brought into finished houses. The layout offers spacious rooms, a living room with a fireplace for a pleasant time with the whole family. The houses of Ropshinsky Ponds have glazed verandas and balconies with individual forged railings.
The general layout of the plots implies the presence of public areas where there are playgrounds, village square and convenient guest parking. Such areas can be used by every resident or guest of the village.
Thus, the village is a small ennobled world that harmoniously combines with the surrounding nature: those landscape views that are called native Russian, sung by great writers and poets, artists and composers.
Fishing at Ropshinsky Ponds
For excellent fishing, it is far from necessary to go to completely deserted and remote places from St. Petersburg. Near the village of Ropsha there are famous paid ponds throughout the district, which have all the necessary amenities to brighten up the vacation of an avid fisherman. And, of course, a variety of fish is found in them, which certainly bites with an enviable frequency!
You can catch many representatives of aquatic fauna in the Ropsha ponds. Carps, breams, zander, pike, some species of trout and salmon are bred in them. The cost of paid fishing is kept to the utmost "popular" framework and amounts to 1000 rubles for 8 hours. The price immediately includes 7 kilograms of catch that you can take with you. More weight is paid extra, but always cheaper than buying fresh fish at the supermarket!
Untouched places and picturesque landscapes are truly priceless. They do not cost any money, but you can enjoy them forever. Ropsha ponds are ennobled enough to feel part of civilization and not to experience any inconvenience, but also to clearly feel the unity with nature.
Equipped and comfortable place with lots of benefits
The main advantages of Ropshinsky ponds:
- proximity to a large city (St. Petersburg about 30 kilometers on the highway);
- a truly qualitative variety of healthy fish species;
- natural landscapes and bottom topography, coastal and underwater vegetation, which create natural conditions for the normal living of different types of fish;
- a large pond for paid fishing (which reaches more than 300 meters in length and 150 meters in width);
- a long coastline that allows you to create a large number of secluded places for each individual company of fishermen;
- it is impossible to meet desolation near the ponds and near the water, garbage - everything is cleaned and maintained in excellent condition;
- immediately on the territory you can use the gazebos with tables and chairs, insect protection, where everything is arranged for cooking fish soup, barbecue, as well as gatherings among friends and family;
- individual bridges and gatherings to the water, which can be paid both for the company of fishermen and for single people who want to enjoy silence, solitude and their own thoughts;
- excellent ecology and real Russian nature around, from which it aches in the chest!
Of course, often in the fishing just the “wild” setting, less civilization and other special details are valued. To do this, many are trying to move away from people and major cities. But Ropsha is a place that is very close to St. Petersburg, there is a road nearby, but in which natural beauty is nevertheless maintained, which is ennobled by the necessary amenities.
Is it really bad when there is something to admire in the Ropshinsky ponds district (photo can be seen in the article), but you don’t have to walk through the mud, you can go down to the water through convenient walkways, calmly put fishing rods in special holders, and not worry about preparing a place for lunch and cooking?
And if you add to this the most important quality of paid fishing - a guaranteed catch, then there should be no doubt! After all, Ropshinsky ponds are excellent farms for natural and artificial fish farming, so no fisherman can get away without prey.
Own farm
In addition to paid ponds, a fish breeding farm is located on the territory of the complex. In compliance with the norms and requirements, enclosed ponds grow carps, breams, trouts, zander, salmon. You can buy the freshest meat or live fish at competitive prices. Guaranteed for its cultivation no harmful feed was used, and the purity of the water allowed us to grow environmentally friendly products.
Hunting in and around Ropsha
In Ropsha, at Ropsha Ponds, members of the royal family were also fond of hunting. The whole color of the Russian intelligentsia often gathered here not only for fun, balls, but also for a traditional hobby - hunting. These lands are still rich enough in wild animals, which attract many lovers of ancient male hobbies.
Today, in places near Ropsha, hunting for waterfowl, which loves the area for the abundance of small lakes and ponds, where there is always something to eat, is especially successful. Distant forests and lands boast a variety of ungulates and fur animals, which are also allowed to hunt in certain periods.
You can clarify all the details and obtain permits in local forestries. There are paid the services of huntsmen and hunting on the territory of special lands, where guaranteed production is guaranteed.
Livestock farm
In the nearest settlements livestock farms are located in which cows, pigs, and poultry are raised. The whole process is debugged, it happens with the exact observance of technology. Thanks to this, high-quality products are produced, which are supplied to St. Petersburg and transported to the Leningrad Region, as well as to neighboring regions.
Near Ropsha, right on the farms, you can buy fresh meat with minimal margins. Products are accompanied by documents confirming high quality.
Mysticism of the Ropsha Palace
Such a rich historical place simply could not help but gain rumors and chilling stories from local residents and guests.
Of course, the lion's share of tales is connected with the local palace, which today attracts hundreds of tourists, although it is in a deplorable state. But they say that all attempts to restore it ran into a series of inexplicable accidents that seemed to deliberately put sticks in the wheels.
After the move, the military unit stationed on the territory of the residential complex will take with it almost everything, including doors, partitions and floors. When the restoration work is almost over, there will be a terrible fire, which will destroy all labor to ashes.
Against the backdrop of strange patterns, the unexpected lack of funding, when work has already begun, seems like a real trifle that could only collapse on the ill-fated building. Among the local population, even the opinion that the palace near Ropshino is cursed and will never regain its former appearance is firmly rooted.
Finally, often the work was interrupted for a long time or completely curtailed for the reason that the builders refused to return to the premises of the palace. They explained their refusals by hearing voices and seeing ghosts who did not want their refuge to become the center of attention of the living.
Where did all these stories come from?
The source of numerous stories was the grim fate of the palace, which was built by Peter the Great as a roadside estate for rest on the way or a stopping place to hunt. A little later, the estate was transferred to Peter's associate, Fedor Romodanovsky. It was believed that the emperor himself was afraid of his official. Needless to say, Romodanovsky was the head of the secret office, which was engaged in the capture of spies, criminals and deserters.
It is clear that the palace in Ropshino soon enough turned into a place of torture and imprisonment not only of murderers and thieves, but also of persons undesirable for the tsarist regime. Not always to blame.
People were kept in pits with small windows where light barely penetrated. They were not always fed, and, of course, tortured in the endless tangled labyrinths of basements. Today, in empty window openings, silhouettes that do not know peace are visible, wandering darkly through empty halls and corridors. They do not cause harm, but endlessly scare their night guests.
These places were not without the spirit of Romodanovsky himself. They say that he is met far beyond the borders of "his" estate. Even during his life, the people considered Fedor Yurevich a devil in the flesh. And today they say that for all the countless sins, his soul knows no peace and never knows him.
Romodanovsky was a man in his body, almost always wore black clothes to the floor, so you can always find out his terrible silhouette. This is a dark large figure that is visible from afar. They say that he is seen in the surrounding forests, near lakes and Ropshinsky ponds. Close he does not fit, but scary scary.
A new round of gloomy stories for the estate began during the reign of Peter III. It is known that he became a victim of a conspiracy and was killed in this palace. The disease became the official version, but he was old and young knew for sure that Count Orlov, the favorite of Peter III’s wife, Catherine, strangled the deposed ruler, who was exiled to the Ropsha Palace.
At the funeral, the face of Peter III was black, as happens with asphyxiation. But his ghost, which is met in the nearby forests and on the roads, is pale as the moon. They say that when the emperor was strangled, his own scarf was pulled around his neck. Now his spirit is asking lonely travelers to untie the blindfold, but no one has yet tried to heed the requests of otherworldly strength.
However, the mysticism of the Ropshinsky ponds and the inexplicable did not end there. The son of Peter III, Paul I, for some reason loved these places where he had so terribly dealt with his father. But fate did not remain favorable to him, since he was also killed as a result of a conspiracy.
Finally, the wife of the last emperor of Russia, Nicholas II, Empress Alexandra Fedorovna loved to be here. As you know, her fate also happened tragically, like the whole Romanov dynasty.
Reviews about Ropsha and its environs
In general, negative reviews about the pleasant nature and well-groomed territory are difficult to find about Ropshinsky ponds. But there are also negative opinions.
For example, the main pain of local residents for decades is the palace complex, which has been destroyed to the state of ruins. Of course, the sight is sad. Especially if you know that the Ropsha Palace is included in the list of cultural heritage of mankind according to the respected world organization - UNESCO.
However, there is reason to believe that certain shifts in its restoration will nevertheless be in the near future and invest in construction. True, we are talking about a huge budget. The figures are called 5 billion rubles or more. But if such investments are attracted, then we can safely say that such wonderful places, the triumph of architecture and natural beauty, will bloom with new colors, will attract even more tourists and vacationers from St. Petersburg.
Reviews about the cottage village "Ropshinsky Ponds"
Opinions about these places are extremely good. Happy homeowners in the Ropshinsky Ponds cottage community (it is known that more than half of the fund has already been sold out) note that the area is really picturesque, pacifying, conducive to the contemplation of eternal values and a deep and fruitful rest from city bustle and work.
You always want to come back here, because all kinds of recreation are concentrated here, which are inextricably linked with nature. Convenient and ennobled fishing, Ropshinsky ponds will present hunting in deserted forests, just walks at any time of the year on skis or bicycles. All this, of course, makes the village an ideal place for the whole family to live.
Reviews about the rest in Ropsha
These places, which are located very close to St. Petersburg, are perfectly connected with a large city and are adapted for anyone by the duration of their vacation alone or in company. You can come to Ropsha and stay overnight, while going to one of the ponds (not only paid, but also wild, which are in the forests, albeit at a distance from the main highways and trails). It is also easy to leave things and go on foot to hunt or by car - to those places that can be called truly wild and remote.
Even the architectural appearance of Ropsha herself, although not in good condition, can still attract fans of ordinary walks. Until now, excursions are sent to the dilapidated estate every day, on which there is something to listen to. The local places are distinguished by a truly rich historical and cultural heritage, so they will certainly present many unforgettable, pleasant cognitive hours.