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      Ostafyevo and Dubrovitsy: Karamzin and the crowned church

      ⏱ 9 h 50 min🚶 700 m + 🚌🚕🍽 2📍 6 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      South on MCD-2: the Vyazemsky estate where Karamzin wrote his “History of the Russian State”, the white-stone church with a crown instead of a dome in Dubrovitsy, and a Georgian dinner in Podolsk.

      🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🚆 Out of town
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      Getting there
      🏛 Kursky Railway Station
      ул. Земляной Вал, 29
      MCD-2 trains run every 6–12 minutes, pay with a Troika card; the buses from the west exit in Shcherbinka together run about every 15–20 minutes. Set off around 9:30. A route for Tue–Sun (October 2026 timetable)
      🚌 by bus to Ostafyevo Museum-Estate: the “Russian Parnassus”
      MCD-2 from Kurskaya to Shcherbinka (49 min), then from the west exit bus 509 (at :30), 509k or 1045 to the “Museum-Estate Ostafyevo” stop, 8–15 min
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        🖼 Ostafyevo Museum-Estate: the “Russian Parnassus”
        Москва, пос. Рязановское, с. Остафьево, Троицкая ул., 1А
        🎟 ticket
        The estate of the Princes Vyazemsky, where Karamzin wrote his “History of the Russian State” and where Pushkin, Zhukovsky, Gogol and Griboyedov were guests; the palace has an Oval Hall with a painted ceiling.
        Tue–Sun 10:00–18:00, Saturday until 21:00; closed Mon, and on the last Tuesday of the month it opens at 12:00. The oval hall with a painted ceiling and Karamzin’s study; entry to the museum stops 30 minutes before closing
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        Ostafyevo Museum-Estate: the “Russian Parnassus”
        © Никонико962 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Ostafyevo Museum-Estate: the “Russian Parnassus”
        © Usadboved · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The palace was built at the turn of the 18th–19th centuries under Prince Andrey Vyazemsky, presumably to a design by Ivan Starov.
        • Karamzin, who was married to the owner's daughter, lived at Ostafyevo for 12 years, from 1804 to 1815.
        • On 2 October 1803 a balloon landed here carrying Praskovya Gagarina, the first Russian woman to go up in the air, and André-Jacques Garnerin.
        • In 1899, for Pushkin's centenary, Count Sergey Sheremetev turned the estate into a public Pushkin museum.
        • The Oval Hall for receptions is decorated with sixteen Corinthian half-columns of artificial marble.
        • Pyotr Vyazemsky's library numbered 5,000 volumes by poets and writers of Pushkin's time.
        • After the museum closed in the 1930s there was a military hospital here, then a rest home of the Council of Ministers; museum status returned on 5 December 1988.
      2. 🚶 on foot
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        🌳 Ostafyevo Park: Big Pond and the “Temple of Apollo”
        Москва, с. Остафьево, Въездная аллея
        The estate's landscape park with lime alleys, the Big Pond, a humpback bridge, the “Temple of Apollo” gazebo and monuments to Pushkin, Karamzin, Vyazemsky and Zhukovsky.
        Walk around the Big Pond along lime alleys, across a humpback bridge to the gazebo. The park is open daily 8:00–23:00
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        Ostafyevo Park: Big Pond and the “Temple of Apollo”
        © mos.ru · CC BY 4.0
        Ostafyevo Park: Big Pond and the “Temple of Apollo”
        © Helga-Tigrokisa · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Ostafyevo Park: Big Pond and the “Temple of Apollo”
        © mos.ru · CC BY 4.0
        • The “Temple of Apollo” gazebo on the bank of the Big Pond was built for Pyotr Vyazemsky by Foma Melnikov in the early 19th century.
        • The humpback bridge was lost by the 1950s and recreated from historical plans in 1999.
        • The lime alley is the oldest part of the ensemble: grown trees already appear on the estate plan of 1805.
        • According to legend, Pushkin named the alley the “Russian Parnassus”, but the historian T. N. Smirnova argues the name was invented in Soviet times.
        • Count Sheremetev put up the Karamzin monument in 1911, and those to Pushkin, Zhukovsky and the Vyazemskys in 1913.
        • Mars Field is an oval glade created for the 10th anniversary of the war of 1812, in which Pyotr Vyazemsky took part.
        • On the site of the outbuilding where Karamzin wrote the first eight volumes of the “History of the Russian State” stands a marker: eight bronze books.
      4. 🚕 Taxi ≈15 min
      5. 3
        ☕️ Park Café in Dubrovitsy
        г. о. Подольск, пос. Дубровицы, у Знаменской церкви
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        Lunch on the veranda by the church
        🍴 A café with a veranda in the estate park, a stone's throw from the church. What to order: lamb shashlik (grilled skewered meat), grilled beef tenderloin, sea buckthorn tea.
      6. 🚶 on foot
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        🏛 Church of the Sign in Dubrovitsy (Znamenskaya Church)
        г. о. Подольск, пос. Дубровицы, 45
        Prince Golitsyn's white-stone church of the turn of the 17th–18th centuries: a gilded crown instead of a dome, and facades covered with sculpture and carving.
        The church is open daily from about 8:00 to 17:00, longer on weekends. Look at the sculptures of saints on the facades and the carving inside; women: headscarf
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        Church of the Sign in Dubrovitsy (Znamenskaya Church)
        © Ludvig14 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • In 1688 Dubrovitsy was bought by Prince Boris Golitsyn, Peter I's tutor and associate.
        • Construction of the church began in 1690 and apparently finished by 1696, but it was consecrated only in 1704, in the presence of Peter I.
        • The church differs from Russian churches of that time in its 12-petal plan and a centric composition soaring upward.
        • The walls are laid of white stone from the Syanskie underground quarries.
        • According to legend, Patriarch Adrian refused to consecrate the church because of its “Catholic” architecture; in fact he was gravely ill at the time.
        • The church's first description is a 1784 manuscript by the local priest Sergey Romanovsky; the names of its architects are unknown.
        • The basement niches for crypts were filled with earth and cleared only in the early 2000s.
      8. 🚶 on foot
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        🌅 Viewpoint on Park Kurgan in Dubrovitsy
        г. о. Подольск, пос. Дубровицы
        A platform above the confluence of the Desna and Pakhra next to the Golitsyn manor house.
        A view of the confluence of the Desna and the Pakhra and of the Golitsyn manor house — you can’t go inside, so we look from outside
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        Viewpoint on Park Kurgan in Dubrovitsy
        © Olenka1805 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Viewpoint on Park Kurgan in Dubrovitsy
        © Елена Нечипоренко · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • On the cape at the confluence of the Desna and Pakhra, archaeologists found a Neolithic site and an early Iron Age settlement, the Dubrovitsy settlement.
        • Catherine II bought the estate from Potemkin and gave it to her favourite Alexander Dmitriev-Mamonov.
        • His son Matvey Dmitriev-Mamonov rebuilt the baroque palace in the classical style and founded the secret “Order of Russian Knights” here.
        • In 1999–2004 many trees that blocked the view of the main house were cut down at the estate, which opened up today's view.
      10. 🚕 Taxi ≈10 min, or bus 65 to Podolsk bus station: every 20–35 min until 21:45, 30 min ride
      11. 6
        🍽 Gruzinskie Kanikuly (“Georgian Holiday”) Restaurant in Podolsk
        Подольск, Большая Серпуховская ул., 45
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        Dinner; book on weekends
        🍴 A Georgian home-cooking restaurant with sofas and a kids' corner. What to order: khinkali (Georgian dumplings), assorted pkhali (vegetable pâtés), khachapuri (cheese bread), shashlik (grilled skewered meat).

      ↩️ Getting back: 20 min on foot to Podolsk station: MCD-2 to Kursky Station every 6–12 min, ≈1 h; faster — express 7048 at 18:47, arriving at Kursky at 19:37

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