` ::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.`