A family legend reports that the great grandfather of Stepan Fedor Stepanovich, who was not rich, was elected to the ownership of the enormous Khomiakov estate by the peasants. According to the legend, in the middle of the eighteenth century Kirill Ivanovich Khomiakov, an extremely wealthy landowner who possessed an estate called Bogucharovo and many villages in the Tula region, an estate in the Riazan' region, and a house in St. Petersburg decided, on the death of his wife and only daughter, to find a son and heir among the Khomiakov clan. He asked his peasants to elect their new master. They found and elected Stepan Aleksandrovich Khomiakov, a man of modest means, to become the new owner of the huge estate. He was known as an excellent master and a practical man who enriched and embellished his property.
His son, Aleksandr, did not inherit his father's pragmatism. He did not value what he had and, like many young men from wealthy Russian families, unwisely used the resources of the estate. Aleksandr loved to feast, hunt, and gamble. He married Nastasiia Ivanovna Griboedova, for whom Lipitsy, an estate in the province of Smolensk, was given as a dowry.
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