Page 280: "By the end of World War II, a staggering 95% of Russia's country estates had disappeared. Some had  been targeted for destruction; most however, were simply abandoned, plundered and then forgotten, left to rot, decay and fall into ruin. An entire cultural legacy had been wiped from the face of the earth." attributed to: Okhrana i restavratsiia, 24 Russkaia usad 'ba, 145, 155; Poliakova, "Usadebnaia kul'tura 19.