The Park of Kuskovo

Ryazansky Prospekt metro station

26 points in the rating of "The best parks of Moscow". Location: 3 Atmosphere: 5 Beauty: 5 Entertainment: 4 Singularity: 4 History: 5

How to reach: from the metro station "Ryazansky Prospekt"bus 133 and 208 to the bus stop "Muzei Kuskovo"; from the metro station "Vykhino"bus 620, taxi bus 9 - to the bus stop "Muzei Kuskovo"; from the metro station "Novogireyevo" trolleybus 64, bus 615, 247 to the bus stop "Ulitsa Yunosti".
Address: Moscow, Yunosti str., 2.
Web-site: http://kuskovo.ru/
Working hours: A purchased ticket to one of the pavilions of the park is your entrance ticket to the territory of the Kuskovo mansion. The cost of the ticket is equal to RUR 100-250. You can visit the pavilions: the Palace, the American greenhouse; the Grotto; the Dutch house, the Italian house.

From April to October - from 10.00 to 18.00. The cash desk works until 17.00;
From November to March - from 10.00 to 16.00. The cash desk works until 15.00.
Monday, Tuesday, and the last Wednesday of each number - cleaning days.
Starting from January 2012, on each third Wednesday of each month, the entrance to the "Kuskovo" museum IS FREE!

Kuskovo would have become the best park of Moscow, but its location is a bit uncomfortable - far from the city centre, and no metro station nearby. The park is beautiful - meadows, a little pond and a forest, beautiful architecture. The first mention of Kuskovo refers to the beginning of the XVI century. It becomes a mansion only at the beginning of the XVIII century, when the well-known associate of Peter I Boris Petrovich Sheremetev (1652-1719) purchases it from his younger brother Vladimir. You should definitely visit the mansion, in which there is a museum, itself, or one of the pavilions.

The Palace, the main building in the suburban amusement mansion of count Pyotr Borisovich Sheremetev.
The Dutch house - the oldest of the extant amusement pavilions of the mansion. It was constructed in 1749 in memory of the epoch of Peter I and his passion for the Netherlands.
The Italian house used to serve as a palace for "lesser audiences".
The Grotto. It consists of the central hall painted in imitation of pink and green marble, then or thernand the southern offices in the cold and the warm color palettes respectively.
It is worth organizing a calm picnic in this park, but you can also simply have a rest with an interesting book.