🖼 Vyazemy Estate: the Golitsyn Palace

Одинцовский округ, пгт Большие Вязёмы, ул. Институт

The Golitsyn palace of the late 18th century with a park and ponds; in 1812 first Kutuzov, and a day later Napoleon, stayed here.

In 1584 Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich gave Vyazemy to his brother-in-law Boris Godunov, who surrounded the estate with a wooden wall with five towers.
In the Time of Troubles Vyazemy became False Dmitry I's country palace, and in 1606 Marina Mniszech stayed here for several days.
In 1694 Peter I granted Vyazemy to his tutor Prince Boris Golitsyn.
The outbuildings were finished in 1772 and the palace itself in 1784, under Prince Nikolay Mikhailovich Golitsyn.
The man of letters Stepan Shevyryov sorted the huge estate library, and Gogol visited him here in 1849.
According to legend, it was here, at a ball, that Pushkin first saw Natalya Goncharova.
From 1908 the last owner, Prince Dmitry Golitsyn, built a dacha settlement next door, the present town of Golitsyno.

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