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      Ponds and the Horse Yard of Kuzminki

      ⏱ 1 h 20 min🚶 2 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      A cascade of ponds along the Churilikha, the Golitsyns' estate with its cast-iron lions and the Horse Yard with Klodt's horses. You can finish with lunch on a café veranda in the park.

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        🌳 Kuzminki Ponds
        A chain of ponds in Kuzminki forest park with dams, little bridges and walking paths.
        A cascade of ponds along the Churilikha River
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        Kuzminki Ponds
        © Max Ryazanov · CC BY-SA 3.0
        Kuzminki Ponds
        © Max Ryazanov · CC BY-SA 3.0
        Kuzminki Ponds
        © karel291 · CC BY 3.0
        • The cascade of ponds on the Churilikha River has existed since the 18th century, with a total area of 30 hectares.
        • The Lower Pond used to be called the Mill Pond, after the mill that gave Kuzminki its name.
        • The Big Upper Pond appeared under Alexander Stroganov, when the Churilikha was dammed.
        • Under Prince Mikhail Golitsyn a cascade of four ponds was built on the river, and it survives to this day.
        • In 1811 the Lion Pier was built on the Upper Pond, from where a ferry crossed to the other bank.
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      3. 2
        🏛 Kuzminki Estate
        🎟 partly ticketed
        An 18th–19th-century Golitsyn estate with classical wings, bridges and ponds.
        The estate ensemble and cast-iron lions. Restoration continues until 2028: the wings and the Horse Yard may be in scaffolding and behind a fence, while the park and ponds are open
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        Kuzminki Estate
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        Kuzminki Estate
        © Max_Ryazanov · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • 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.
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        🏛 Kuzminki Horse Yard
        The Horse Yard ensemble of 1819–1823 by Gilardi, with Klodt's cast-iron horses by the pavilion.
        The Horse Yard's music pavilion
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        Kuzminki Horse Yard
        © Ludvig14 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Kuzminki Horse Yard
        © Ludvig14 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The Horse Yard was built in 1805, and in 1823 Domenico Gilardi rebuilt it.
        • The cast-iron horses at the Music Pavilion were cast to a design by Peter Klodt and repeat the groups on the Anichkov Bridge.
        • The fence incorporates two corner guesthouse pavilions for the estate's guests and the Music Pavilion in the center.
        • The stables housed horses, sleighs and carriages, and stored fodder and harness.
        • In 1978 the Music Pavilion burned down; it was later rebuilt.
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        ☕️ Lesnoy Café in Kuzminki
        парк Кузьминки, у Конного двора
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        Lunch
        🍴 A café with a terrace right in the park, a couple of minutes from the Horse Yard; daily 9:00–21:00, dogs welcome. What to order: fish soup (ukha), shashlik, dumplings, blini.

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