First Kuskovo mentioned in the end of XVI century as the possession of sheremetevyh. Documents, how did the HOMESTEAD and how it has changed, is stored in the of glavarkhiv Moskvy.
Kuskovo the Sheremetev belonged to more than three hundred years, until 1918. During this time the architectural Park ensemble of the estate. In 1623-1624 the years, there was a wooden Church, knights yard, yards serfs. In accordance with the fashion of the time in the manor appeared the English garden, the decoration of which was streams, ponds, waterfalls, picturesque mountains and ravines.
the Main monuments of landscape art emerged in the estate Kuskovo in the 1780-ies. Avenues with neatly trimmed trees, floral rugs and even lawns have become a kind of maze: some of them ended mirror stubs or drawn by prospects of faux hides the real space. In the XVIII century the estate was even nicknamed Versailles because of its similarity with the residence of the French kings.
the Park was attractive because of its greenhouse, in which Laurel, lemon, orange, coffee and other exotic for our latitudes trees have grown to no less than in their natural habitat, sizes.
“Country directory and guide to the outskirts of Moscow” in 1907 reported: “In the woods adjoining the Park, on the huge for a lot of summer houses of different prices, but cheaper in densely populated suburban areas “Hai”, located on the road to Kosino. It fits a garden of pleasure “guy” with the theater.”
the Forest was different with birch forests, walking forest routes and centuries-old oaks and lindens, which, according to experts, can be attributed to the valuable objects. Unfortunately, due to heavy suburban development old Kuskovsky Park in the early twentieth century was nearly destroyed. About his condition in the first decades of the Soviet regime can be judged by the description in the guidebook, 1928: “of Course, fifty years later, the Park is far from what it was during the reign of Catherine, then the army is the fortress of the gardeners petted him as the odalisque, was trimmed by one style lush curls, watered flower beds. Now tracks walks a resting worker, critically looking at the noseless, armless marble gods and goddesses”.
In 1918 the Kuskovo estate was given the status of the Museum-estate in the Museum exhibition included collections of porcelain, ceramics and glassware of the State Museum of ceramics in Kuskovo translated in 1932. During the great Patriotic war on the territory of the estate was the barracks that housed the cadets of the school of instructors of sniper training.
in 2011 the Park was carried out works on improvement. The Central part the estate was decorated with cast-iron benches, made on the model of the XVIII–XIX centuries. Experts have carried out drainage works, planted trees in the French regular Park, the only one in Moscow. In addition, Sochi has recreated air theatre (a unique example of the synthesis of architecturally-Park and performing arts), cleaned the pond, repaired and strengthened its banks.
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