Versailles near Moscow - Kuskovo estate (Vykhino)

Versailles near Moscow is Kuskovo estate.

The summer country estate of Count Sheremetev is truly a pearl of the 18th century near Moscow! It impresses with its scope, a French regular park decorated with marble statues, a grotto whose interiors are decorated with hundreds of sea and river shells. Walking through the park you can admire the riot of colors, flowers, a variety of small architectural ensembles...!

On the tour you will see:

• French regular park
• palace
• rulers
• birdhouse
• pottery
• greenhouse
• Dutch-house
• Hermitage pavilion
• lodge
• cave
• Swiss-house

! The tour includes: a walk around the estate with a visit to the palace.

During the tour you will learn:

• Where did the name Kuskovo come from?
• what was Kuskovo in the 16-17 centuries and why it was here that Count P.B. Sheremetev decided to build a country residence;
• Who were the ancestors of the Sheremetevs, where they came from and what united them representatives of the royal family of the Romanovs;
• What is depicted on the ancestral coat of arms of counts Sheremetev;
• than he liked to surprise, amuse guests Count P.B. Sheremetev;
• love story of Count P.B. Sheremetev and serf actress Praskovya Kovaleva-Zhemchugova;
• Which ballroom dances were popular in the 18th century and which were considered the height of indecency?
• what theatrical figure Medox complained about the theater of Count Peter Sheremetev;
• What was the air theater, what was its repertoire, and what did Catherine the Great give as a sign of admiration to the leading serf actress P. Kovaleva-Zhemchugova?
• What has become the country residence of the counts after the revolutionary whirlwind of 1917?
• How was the fate of the descendants of the last pre-revolutionary owner of the estate S.D. Sheremetev
• And much more.

How to get to the estate "Kuskovo":

1. Metro Ryazan Avenue. From the metro right to the stop "Museum Kuskovo" there are buses No. 133 and No. 208.

2. Vykhino Metro. Bus #620 will take you to the Kuskovo Museum stop

• tour
• entrance tickets to the palace of Count P.B. Sheremetev