Bogoroditsk (Tula Peterhof) + Epiphany
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We invite you to visit two interesting small towns in the Tula region: Bogoroditsk, known for its main attraction, the Bobrinsky Palace-Museum and Epiphany, was once a large county city, and today it is an urban-type settlement, with a population not reaching two and a half thousand people.
Bogoroditsk is a small district center near which the Battle of Kulikovo took place in 1380. In 1783, the construction of the imperial estate was completed in Bogoroditsk, here the first landscape park in Russia was laid out. The Bogoroditsky Palace was built by order of Catherine the Great herself, and even the unusual fan layout of the streets of the town of Bogoroditsk begins from him. This participation of the Empress in the fate of the state settlement is quite understandable, because the luxurious palace and the town around it were built for the illegitimate secret son of Catherine II and Gregory Orlov - Count Alexei Bobrinsky. Contemporaries compared the majestic palace and magnificent manor park with the palaces of Peterhof, and later it was in this house that Leo Tolstoy “settled” Anna Karenina and Alexei Vronsky. Every visit to the estate is a celebration of meeting the beautiful!
After getting acquainted with the Bogoroditsky you will go to the small provincial village of Epifan, which boasts its Red Square, as well as one of the main historical and architectural sights of the Tula region, ready to argue with the capital - the majestic Nikolsky Cathedral. It was built in the period from 1814 to 1850 on the money of parishioners, and primarily local merchants. In addition to Red Square and Nikolsky Cathedral, the museum of merchant life also deserves special attention. It is located in the estate of the merchant Baibakov. You can walk around the living room, look into the office and the female half. Here they treat fragrant tea from a samovar, pastries prepared according to ancient recipes of the Kulikovo Field kitchen and fragrant jam. The museum of merchant life will help you to travel a hundred years back and feel the charm of provincial philistine life.