🌳 Larch Alley in Serednikovo

г. о. Химки, пос. санатория «Мцыри», усадьба Середниково

An old alley of the estate park; the young Lermontov spent his summer holidays in Serednikovo in 1829–1832.

The slopes of the ravine in the park are mostly covered with conifers: spruce, pine and larch.
Senator Vsevolozhsky, who owned the estate in 1775–1796, heaped up a hill seven sazhens high for a gazebo and planted a pine grove on it.
Here Lermontov experienced his first love, wrote youthful poems and made translations.
For the poet's centenary, in 1914, an obelisk inscribed “To the singer of sorrow and love” was put up by the house.
In autumn 1941 a line of Moscow's defence ran by the estate, and traces of earthworks survive in the park.

Part of these routes