Big Vyazem - Zakharovo
Description:
On the tour: Travel information. In Vyazemy, acquaintance with the palace and park ensemble, a visit to the palace. In Zakharovo, acquaintance with the garden and park ensemble, a visit to the manor house.
Departure / arrival: Departure - 9:00. Metro station "Victory Park", exit to the street. Barclay, the first car from downtown.
Return around 17:00.
The poetic homeland of Pushkin is called the estates of Zakharovo and Vyazemy near Moscow - after all, his childhood passed here. It was in these places, in the grandmother’s estate near Moscow, that Pushkin first saw the beauty of Russian nature, peasant dances, heard folk songs, saw the life of the rich and provincial nobility, here his views on life were formed, here he began to write his first poems, here he formed as a great national poet. Pushkin came here during the most difficult periods of his life. Now the State Historical and Literary Museum-Reserve of A. S. Pushkin is located on the territory of two estates. Arriving in these places, you can not only wander along the paths of ancient parks, where the great poet walked, and breathe this magical air, but also touch the silent witnesses of the poet's childhood - magnificent monuments of architecture, which are united in a whole palace and park ensemble of the XVI-XIX centuries. In Vyazemy preserved the Church of the Transfiguration, the belfry of the end of the XVI century., the palace and two wings of the XVIII century., outbuildings, parks, ponds XVI-XIX centuries. In total, there are more than 20 monuments of history and culture on the territory of Vyazem. These places are associated with key events in the history of Russia: “Times of Troubles”, Petrovsky transformations, the Patriotic War of 1812, the Civil and Great Patriotic Wars. Here were Boris Godunov, False Dmitry I, Peter I, Paul I, Kutuzov, Napoleon, Bagration, N. V. Gogol, L. N. Tolstoy, M. Tsvetaeva, A. Akhmatova and many others, whose names are proud of world history. In Zakharov there is a pond, part of the park, sung by Pushkin. In 1999, the manor house of M.A. Hannibal was restored, where the museum of the great poet’s childhood is located.