Until 1685 Fuchshöfen was called Wolfshöfen and belonged to the von Creutzen family. The estate belonged to the parish of Arnau (Rodniki). After Georg Wilhelm von Creutzen (1629–88), Amtshauptmann of Fischhausen and Obermarschall of Prussia, returned the estate to the state, in 1685 the Elector Frederick William I granted it to the minister Paul Freiherr von Fuchs (1640–1704) , who renamed it Fuchshöfen. The estate was inherited by his son Johann Paul (1676–1712), after whose death his second wife, Anna Franzelina, became mistress of the estate.
At the demand of King Frederick William I, Anna Franzelina married a second time, to Field Marshal Ludwig von Wylich und Lottum (1683–1729). The marriage took place by order (the king even sent two companies of soldiers to the estate) so that the field marshal could cover his gambling debts from the estate's income. But Ludwig von Wylich und Lottum all but squandered the estate as well. After his death in 1729, Anna's daughter Luise Sophie became the heiress. After that, the estate passed from mother to daughter for four generations. The line of inheritance was broken when Christiane von Wangenheim (1791–1873) married the chief forester Barthold Johann von Bassewitz (1782–1827).
In 1807 Fuchshöfen was visited by Queen Louise, and a memorial stone was erected in the park to mark the occasion.
In the 19th century the Fuchshöfen estate formed a Gutsbezirk in the Landkreis Königsberg (from 1939 the Kreis Samland). The Gutsbezirk also included the Vorwerke of Koggen (Nagornoye), Gänsenkrug (Kashtanovka), Ramstau and (until 21 October 1905) Gehlblum (Trubkino). In 1874 the Amtsbezirk Fuchshöfen was formed in the Landkreis Königsberg, comprising five rural communities: Altsitt (Grushevka, part), Friedrichswalde (Koltsovo), Norgehnen (Streltsovo), Spohr, Stangau (Malinovka), as well as the Gutsbezirk Fuchshöfen (Slavyanskoye).
Various officials from Fuchshöfen headed the Amtsbezirk in 1874–77 and 1885–1921. On 30 September 1928 the Gutsbezirk Fuchshöfen was abolished and merged with the Stangau community into a new rural community of Fuchshöfen. On 1 October 1929 the communities of Altsitt (Grushevka, part), Norgehnen (Streltsovo) and Friedrichswalde (Koltsovo) were merged into a new rural community of Norgehnen. The Amtsbezirk Fuchshöfen now consisted of three rural communities: Fuchshöfen (Slavyanskoye), Norgehnen (Streltsovo) and Spohr (Shpoor), until on 1 April 1936 the Spohr community became part of the Friedrichstein (Kamenka) community in the Amtsbezirk Löwenhagen (Komsomolsk). The last owner of the estate was Friedrich von Bassewitz, who rebuilt and enlarged the manor house in 1933. Before the war Fuchshöfen had a school.
On 17 November 1947 Fuchshöfen was renamed the settlement of Slavyanskoye. In 1955 and 1963 Slavyanskoye had nine houses. A school operated in the settlement until the 1990s. In 1991 the agricultural experimental station in Slavyanskoye was transformed into an agricultural research institute, a branch of the V.R. Williams All-Russian Fodder Research Institute.
In the 2010s an animal shelter was opened in Slavyanskoye.
Coordinates of the settlement: 54°40'40'' N 20°43'11'' E
Sights: the former manor park is overgrown, and by 2018 only fragments of the walls remained of the manor itself; the old school building, numerous pre-war farm buildings, the family cemetery (54°40'46'' N 20°43'45'' E).
Population change: 1982 – 130, 2002 – 114 inhabitants
Population change of the Gutsbezirk and community of Fuchshöfen: 1905 – 368, 1910 – 336, 1933 – 331, 1939 – 350 inhabitants.
Population of the Vorwerk Ramstau: 1905 – 44 inhabitants.
Modern photo by Mikhail Ogorodnikov.
Translated from Russian with the help of AI (Claude, Anthropic), October 2026.
