Vozrozhdeniye (russian: Возрождение, fi, Kavantsaari, sv, Kavantholm) is a rural locality and a railway station in

Kamennogorsk Kamennogorsk (russian: Каменного́рск; known before 1948 by the Finnish name of Antrea (russian: А́нтреа; sv, S:t Andree)), is a town in Vyborgsky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the Karelian Isthmus on the left ...

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. It is located by the Vyborg–Joensuu railroad 23 kilometres north of

Vyborg Vyborg (; rus, Вы́борг, links=1, r=Výborg, p=ˈvɨbərk; fi, Viipuri ; sv, Viborg ; german: Wiborg ) is a town in, and the administrative center of, Vyborgsky District in Leningrad Oblast, Russia. It lies on the Karelian Isthmus ne ...

. The railway station was opened in 1892. It was known by the Finnish name ''Kavantsaari'' until 1948.

Kavantholm Manor

Kavantholm was a

manor house A manor house was historically the main residence of the lord of the manor. The house formed the administrative centre of a manor in the European feudal system; within its great hall were held the lord's manorial courts, communal meals w ...

with a history dating back to the 16th century. It was first owned by Måns Nilsson till Ahtis, the

vogt During the Middle Ages, an (sometimes given as modern English: advocate; German: ; French: ) was an office-holder who was legally delegated to perform some of the secular responsibilities of a major feudal lord, or for an institution such as ...

of the Vyborg Castle. In 1562 the king

Eric XIV of Sweden Eric XIV ( sv, Erik XIV; 13 December 153326 February 1577) was King of Sweden from 1560 until he was deposed in 1569. Eric XIV was the eldest son of Gustav I (1496–1560) and Catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg (1513–1535). He was also ruler of Es ...

granted to manor it to the

stadtholder In the Low Countries, ''stadtholder'' ( nl, stadhouder ) was an office of steward, designated a medieval official and then a national leader. The ''stadtholder'' was the replacement of the duke or count of a province during the Burgundian and H ...

Bertil Göransson Mjöhund. Later in the 16th and 17th centuries it was owned by the noble families of

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, Skalm and

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and since 1658 by

Henrik von Rehbinder Henrik von Rehbinder (1604–1680) was a Swedish soldier and ''freiherr'' of the Udriku estate in Swedish Estonia. Genealogisches Handbuch der baltischen Ritterschaften, Teil 2 Estland, Bd. 1, Görlitz, 1930s.187 Biography He was born on 8 Octob ...

. After Rehbinder's death in 1680, the manor was returned to the Crown. As the Old Finland was ceded to

in 1721, Kavantholm was granted to the captain Ivan Menshoi Shuvalov. After his son

Ivan Shuvalov Ivan Ivanovich Shuvalov (russian: link=no, Ива́н Ива́нович Шува́лов; 1 November 172714 November 1797) was called the Maecenas of the Russian Enlightenment and the first Russian Minister of Education. Russia's first theatre ...

died in 1797, Kavantholm was sold to the Russian merchant Alexandr Olhin and after his death in 1815 to the count

Carl Gustaf Mannerheim Carl Gustaf Mannerheim may refer to: * Carl Gustaf Mannerheim (naturalist) Count Carl Gustaf Mannerheim (10 August 1797 – 9 October 1854) was a Finnish entomologist and governor of the Viipuri province in the Grand Duchy of Finland. Caree ...

. In 1848 Mannerheim sold the manor to the general major Alexander Adam Thesleff. The last owner was his grandson Nikolai Julius Thesleff. In the 1918

Finnish Civil War The Finnish Civil War; . Other designations: Brethren War, Citizen War, Class War, Freedom War, Red Rebellion and Revolution, . According to 1,005 interviews done by the newspaper ''Aamulehti'', the most popular names were as follows: Civil W ...

Battle of Antrea Battle of Antrea was a Finnish Civil War battle, fought in Antrea (now Kamennogorsk, Russia) and Jääski (now Lesogorsky, Russia), Finland in 11 February – 25 April 1918 between the Finnish Whites against the Finnish Reds. It was fought by ...

, Kavantholm served as the Red Guards headquarters. During the

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, the staff of the Finnish Army IV Corps was housed in Kavantholm. The manor was destroyed in the Soviet Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive in 1944.

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Rural localities in Leningrad Oblast Karelian Isthmus {{LeningradOblast-geo-stub