🏛 Kuzminki Estate

An 18th–19th-century Golitsyn estate with classical wings, bridges and ponds.

The name comes from the Kuzminsky mill mentioned in the 17th century; the estate itself was at first simply called "the Mill".
In 1704 Peter I gave this land to Grigory Stroganov, and that is how the estate began.
In 1757 Kuzminki passed to the Golitsyns as the dowry of Anna Stroganova; in 1912 Prince Sergei Golitsyn sold the estate to the city.
In the summer of 1826 Empress Maria Feodorovna stayed here for three weeks; Nicholas I and Alexander II visited later.
The Egyptian Pavilion, the former manor kitchen, was built in 1813–1815 by Domenico Gilardi and Andrey Voronikhin.
The entrance gates were cast at the Golitsyns' Ural factories, hence the name of Chugunnye Vorota (Cast-Iron Gates) Street.
The main house burned down on 19 February 1916, four years after the estate was sold to the city.
In the summer of 1866 Dostoevsky visited Kuzminki, renting a dacha in neighboring Lublino.