Naryshkin Pond in Filevsky Park
Description:
Naryshkinsky (second name - Soldatenovsky) pond is located on the territory of the famous Naryshkin estate, in Fili Park and is a pond-digging and the largest pond of the forest park - it is 90 meters long and 55 meters wide.
The story says that after the suppression of the Strelets revolt, Tsar Peter I presented boyar Lev Kirillovich Naryshkin, his uncle, the patrimony of Mstislavsky. And Naryshkin arranged in Fily estate of European scale - with cascades and ponds.
The banks of Naryshkin Pond are low and natural, but quite dry. It is believed that this pond is mentioned in the work “On the Eve” by I. S. Turgenev, so it is also called Turgenevsky.
Unfortunately, the pond is currently rotting and needs cleaning.