08 May
2019
There are many interesting museums in Moscow that are worth a visit and appear on my bucket list. One of them is the Cold War Museum called “Bunker 42”. The special thing about the museum is that it is actually inside a former bunker. It is located underground near the Taganskaya metro station, in the ...
11 Oct
2018
A very Russian institution The St. Petersburg metro is often praised for its beauty but it is also a place full of little stores, nooks and crannies which I found myself looking at yesterday. About everything and anything can be found there from a kitten calendar and the newest Russian romance novels to pens, newspapers ...
15 Feb
2017
Last weekend I visited the 2016 Wildlife of Russia Photography Exhibition in St.Petersburg. It displays the winning pieces from last year’s competition of the same name. The project is a collaboration between National Geographic Russia and Binbank. The exhibition is located on the 5th floor of the Loft Project ETAGI, 74, Ligovski Prospect. The entrance ...
31 Jan
2017
Do You Prepare For A Museum Visit? Is a Museum visit a part of every travelling experience? Moscow is a city that commemorates history with appreciation and is a home to over 50 different museums. Of course, when we travel and arrive to a new city – we want to visit a museum. However, is that ...
13 Oct
2016
Moscow As The Melting Pot Of The East Time flies, and before you know it is time to leave the melting pot and go back home. I do not have many homes away from home, but Moscow surely makes it on the list. It has become really close to my heart. Learning Russian in ...
29 Sep
2016
Theatre in Life, Life in Theatre Just a stone’s throw from Paveletsky Station is the Bakhrushin State Central Theatre Museum (Государственный центральный театральный музей имени А. А. Бахрушина). Named for its founder, the merchant and advocate of the arts Aleksei Alexandrovich Bakhrushin, the Museum is compact, despite being housed in Bakhrushin’s own manor. Glorious and ...
21 Sep
2016
Dusting down the State Museum of Biology Among the many blocks of flats dominating Malaya Gruzinskaya Ulitsa is a redbrick manor house that once belonged to Pyotr Shchukin, one of three brothers famed for their art and literature collections. The building once housed Shchukin’s own museum, displaying his treasures, but now it is the home of the rather ...
04 Sep
2015
As a future Geology student, I decided to visit the Vernadsky State Geological Museum. This is a very particular place to visit. There are very few people apart from a handful of passionate geology students, jotting down a few notes on their notepads, sketching minerals… Therefore visiting the museum feels like a discovery walk in ...
08 Jul
2015
A Journey Through Time With the House of Fabergé I recently had the chance to visit the incredible Fabergé Museum in central St. Petersburg, just a few minutes away from Liden & Denz in the city center. The Fabergé Museum’s impressive collection gives the visitor a unique glimpse into the history of imperial Russia, particularly ...
23 Jun
2015
Every once in a while one stumbles upon these hidden gems that surprise you in a good way. Last weekend I visited the Dostoevsky Museum, which of course was interesting, and on my way back home I stumbled upon the Russian State Museum of the Arctic and Antarctic. Well, stumble is maybe the wrong word ...
![In the early XIXth century the Russian poet Andrey Raevskiy wrote: “Всë, что природа изящного, что искусство прекрасного имеет, – всë найдете Вы в Царицыне” [All that is graceful in nature and beautiful in the arts is to be found in Tsaritsino]. He was right and I suspect that this statement is truer now than it was when these lines were written. Indeed, the construction of the Tsaritsino complex was only completed recently and it never served its initial purpose, i.e., to become a royal residence for Catherine the Great. In fact, the monarch died before the project was finished and after her death the construction works were abandoned. It is after this Empress that the extensive estate was called, Царицыно meaning queen’s estate/land.
The construction of the royal palaces started in the late 1770’s in commemoration of the then recent victory in the war against the Ottoman Empire. Under the supervision of the architect Bajenov, the erection of the main buildings was completed by 1785 [see below the initial plans of the complex], but following the Empress’ dissatisfaction with the look of the buildings, important reconstruction works were undertaken. It was the architect Kazakov who oversaw this stage of the works until 1797. It was in this year, shortly after Catherine’s death, that the project was interrupted and remained unfinished for more than 200 years. It was only in the late 2000’s that the palace and the surrounding gardens and natural parks were entirely renovated and became part of one whole.
Today, the palaces of Tsaritsino represent a magnificent ensemble of buildings, all devoted to the arts. The permanent collection includes works from Europe, Russia and Central Asia, dated mainly from the XVIIIth century onwards. Also, many temporary exhibitions are hosted in the buildings of Tsaritsino.
Another asset of Tsaritsino are its wonderful gardens, where onе can walk, ride a boat, have a picnic or just sunbathe and enjoy nature and architecture. Tsaritsino is a natural oasis, located just 20 minutes away from Moscow’s city-centre and easily accessible using the underground.
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