Bolshoy Kharitonyevsky Lane 24A  

55.765308, 37.650225 (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Yandex Maps)

Inner yard of the building
Number of blue wooden benches near the house
3

Историческая справка

In the 16th century, here was a dense forest where Tsar Ivan the Terrible liked hunting. According to one of the legends (and this palace has lots of them), one winter day, the tsar was riding a horse here, and his sable cap caught on the pine branch and fell into the snow. The tsar couldn't find his cap and ordered to cut down all the trees in this forest. On that place he built a palace to rest after hunting (now B. Kharitonyevsky Lane 21, Bld 4). Also the legend said that a few secret underground passages were dug from this palace to the Kremlin, to the outposts, and to the Moskva River, so that Ivan the Terrible could suddenly and fairly quickly appear in completely unexpected places.

The exact date of the construction of the palace is unknown, but there is also a legend according to which the palace was built by Barma and Postnik, the builders of St Basil's Cathedral. Whether it’s true or not, we don't know, but we can definitely say that Yusupov Palace is one of the oldest civil buildings in Moscow.

From 1801 to 1803, Sergey Pushkin rented one of the outbuildings of this palace. His son Alexander Pushkin, the most famous Russian poet, spent his childhood years here, playing in Yusupov Garden, a large public park which was situated right on the place where you've been looking for the blue benches. Again, according to the legend, here Pushkin could see a mechanical cat on a chain which Nikolai Yusupov, then owner of the palace, had brought from Holland. Later that garden became a prototype of Pushkin's magical forest Lukomorye from the poem "Ruslan and Ludmila".

Now the palace is closed to the public. In April 2020, it was returned to State ownership and became a part of the Arkhangelskoye Estate Museum, which also once belonged to the Yusupovs. We hope that soon the palace will be opened for excursions, but for now you can admire its interiors at the following link:





Ссылка на видео: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Omp_wgLKzc

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