🏛 Grachyovka estate

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An eclectic late-19th-century palace with caryatids and lions — according to legend, a copy of the casino in Monte Carlo; under restoration since 2025, the park with a pond on the Likhoborka is open.

The village was originally called Khovrino: by one version, from the nickname "Khovra" — "untidy" — of its 15th-century owner Georgy Safarin.
In 1700 Peter I granted Khovrino to Fyodor Golovin — the first knight of the Order of St Andrew.
In 1812 the estate was looted and burned by Napoleon's soldiers; it was then owned by Natalya Stolypina, sister of Lermontov's grandmother.
The estate got its name from the merchant Mitrofan Grachyov, who bought it in 1895; the present palace was built to a design by Lev Kekushev.
In 1918 the Grachyovs were evicted; later the place housed a tuberculosis clinic, a kumis-therapy facility, a military hospital and, since 1947, a physiotherapy hospital.
In 2020 a sign reading "Moscow's oldest tree" was hung on the old oak in the park — it was then counted as 432 years old.
In 1975 a monument was erected in the park to the soldiers who died in the military hospital at the estate and were buried here.