Tsaritsyno Park

The Tsaritsyno Palace Park (Russian Царицыно ) is located in the same district in the Southern Administrative District of Moscow, Russia, about 18 km from the city center.

The area was in 1712 still under its original name of " Chernaya Grjas " ( Black Mud ) by Peter I. bestowed the Great Moldovan prince DK Kant emir, whose son AD Kantemir, sold the estate in 1775 to Catherine the Great, the territory in Tsaritsyno ( could rename "place of Zarin " ) to build a country house outside Moscow there. She gave a construction in order, which should compete in the Petersburg area with the buildings. After ten years of construction it was very dissatisfied with the first main building and had this tear again. To 1793 was built on a second draft, the construction has been set, however, were terminated as the main and the most important outbuildings only approximately half. During the 19th century, some smaller outbuildings were completed in the neoclassical style, the main building remained part but to the millennium unfinished, but a museum were in the 1980s in parts opened. Together with the scenic park were the ruins of a popular tourist destination.

In 2004, the by then the Russian state-owned land in exchange for another museum to the city of Moscow, which built much since then for new plans. The city administration plans in the completed complex a "Moscow Hermitage " accommodate. The restoration of the buildings and the park was completed in early September 2007.