Boring Garden. Truth and Fiction: Neskuchny Garden
Boring Garden. I always wondered why he was "not boring". What is so interesting about him that he was called that? There are several versions explaining this name. Initially, there was really a garden here, where fruit trees, shrubs, various rare plants and even palm trees. It was under P.A. Demidov. He created it on the territory of his estate, which later became part of the Neskuchny Garden. Demidov's garden was guarded by very interesting watchmen. They were covered in chalk and were indistinguishable from garden sculptures. So, these watchmen “came to life” only if visitors started to break something, in order to prevent it, respectively. People, having learned about such a curiosity, began to visit the garden more often and gave it the name "Neskuchny". This is the first version of the origin of the name of the garden.
The second version is more prosaic. The territory of the park was formed as a result of the merger of three estates: Demidov, Golitsyn and Trubetskoy. Manor N.Yu. Trubetskoy was called "Neskuchnoe", she, perhaps, gave the name to the garden.
How to get there:
To get to the Neskuchny Garden, you need to get to the Leninsky Prospekt metro station. Then follow the sign to the street. Ordzhonikidze. Their exit goes straight along the street, it makes a small semicircle and rests on Leninsky Prospekt. There on the transition and you are in the park! Yandex.Map for clarity:
Several architectural monuments have been preserved in the Neskuchny Garden. In the Demidov territory in the middle of the eighteenth century a palace was built in the classical style. P.A. Demidov was a lover of botany, bees and songbirds. According to eyewitnesses, his palace was full of cages with feathered inhabitants. When in the 1830s it was purchased for Emperor Nicholas I, the palace became the heart of the residence. The Cavalry and Freulein Corps, as well as a small guardhouse, were added to the ensemble.
In Soviet times, the palace building alternately housed the Museum of Furniture and the Presidium of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, and now the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences is located there. It is not allowed to stay in the area adjacent to the buildings. Despite the open gate, the territory is guarded, and the brave police officers kick out everyone who decides to take a walk there.
After the death of Prokofy Demidov, his lands were bought by the Vyazemskys, and then Count Orlov-Chesmensky became their owner. The arena is now reminiscent of the times of the valiant warrior and the "horseman". At the moment, there is a mineralogical museum named after Fersman. It was founded in 1716 as a mineral cabinet at the Kunstkamera. Then it grew to a large scientific center and a complete museum. And in the thirties of the twentieth century he moved to Moscow, to the Manege in the Neskuchny Garden. Now it is one of the largest and most famous mineral museums in the world. We did not go there, at that time it was somehow not interesting. But now, after looking at its exposition on the official website - fmm.en I regret it. There is something to see. And the entrance costs only 100 rubles. for adults and 50 rubles. for children. Yes, and I wonder how it is from the arena, where the horses used to gallop, turned into a museum ?!
Speaking of horses. In the Neskuchny Garden there is a riding school, or rather the Children's Equestrian Sports Development Center, as well as a playground with ping-pong tables.
hunting lodge, in which they shoot “What? Where? When?" Unfortunately, we couldn't find it. I read on other sites that he is hiding behind a fence among the trees, and therefore it is not so easy to see him. The hunting lodge is part of N.Yu. Trubetskoy. Once there they drank tinctures and liqueurs, told hunting stories and played cards, but now they are filming a TV show.
But the Summer House in the Neskuchny Garden is easy to find. It stands on the banks of the Moscow River. Near it is a small platform with benches, where people walking in the garden like to relax. The house was built under Count Orlov. Go in there and see what's wrong inside.
There are several ponds in Neskuchny Garden. Swimming in them, of course, is prohibited. Yes, and there was no particular desire. Some ponds are more like a swamp (the one in the photo above is even more or less normal).
Some games are sometimes held in the park, such as Zarnitsa. When we were there, we saw how people were recruited on the site near the rotunda. Then these guys and girls ran around the park with some purpose known only to them.
Near the embankment of the Moscow River there is such a monument to a swimmer.
Address: Russia, Moscow, Leninsky prospect (metro station Leninsky prospect, Oktyabrskaya)
Main attractions: Alexandrinsky Palace, Manege, Summer House, Hunting Lodge
Coordinates: 55°43"14.0"N 37°35"37.0"E
An object cultural heritage Russian Federation
On the right bank of the Moskva River, in the very heart of the capital, there is one of the largest Moscow parks, which used to be called the Neskuchny Garden. Smooth linden alleys, beautiful fountains, attractions for kids, a huge Green Theater and sports grounds. Everything, as it should be in a place where people come to relax from the city noise. IN different corners park you can see picturesque buildings old manor Boring.
Alexandrinsky Palace
History of the estate
In fact, on the territory of the modern Neskuchny Garden, park alleys and buildings that belonged to three noble estates have been preserved. The owner of one of them was Prokofy Akinfievich Demidov, who, like his famous father, owned large mining enterprises. P.A. Demidov was known as a passionate gardener, a lover of birds and bees. On the territory of the estate, he built a rich palace for himself and placed many cages with songbirds in it.
The Demidov Botanical Garden appeared in the estate in 1756 and had the form of an amphitheater. In addition to unusual ornamental shrubs and fruit trees, here one could see exotic palm trees for Russians. And the first plants - shoots and seeds came to the Moscow estate from the botanical garden in Solikamsk. In 1781, academician Peter Simon Pallas lived for a month in Demidov's estate and, at his request, compiled a detailed catalog of trees, shrubs and herbs growing around the miner's house.
The eccentricity of the owner manifested itself in different ways. He ordered that the watchmen of the botanical garden be dressed in white suits and forced them to make up to look like park sculptures. The watchmen stood motionless and “came to life” only when one of the visitors tried to break a tree branch or plucked beautiful flowers from a flower bed. Because of this, Muscovites began to call the garden Neskuchny. But this is only one of the versions of the origin of the unusual name.
Maid of honor corps
After the death of Demidov, Elena Nikitichna Vyazemskaya bought the land, and after her, Count Fyodor Grigoryevich Orlov. Under the new owner in 1806-1808, a large arena was built on the estate.
From the south, the estate of Prince Nikita Yuryevich Trubetskoy, who acquired these lands in 1728, adjoined Demidov's possessions. In the middle of the 18th century, a beautiful two-story house appeared here. It was erected for the princely family by the architect Dmitry Vasilyevich Ukhtomsky, a famous master of the Elizabethan Baroque. The descendants of the prince remade the estate in their own way. They arranged in it a "Versailles garden", a menagerie and a poultry house, wooden galleries and a stone grotto.
After the Trubetskoys, Neskuchnoye changed several owners. Some owners tried to set up the production of iron and copper products on the estate. Others, chasing profits, opened the city's first hospital with artificial limbs on the Moscow coast. mineral waters. However, all attempts to earn income from the estate failed. Neskuchnoe continued to be a place of mass festivities and amusements, and the public who came here had fun as best they could. At the beginning of the 19th century, balloon flights, which were rare in those days, were very popular.
Summer (Tea) House
At the very beginning of the reign of Emperor Nicholas I vast lands on the right bank of Moscow, the palace department bought out to create a new summer royal residence here. The southern section of the lands acquired by the treasury was occupied by the former estate of N.Yu. Trubetskoy Neskuchnoe. It is believed that it gave the name to everything built later. palace and park ensemble. Nearby was the Golitsyn estate. The north of the new royal residence previously belonged to the Orlov counts and consisted of several sections. And in the center of the vast palace property was the old Demidov estate with a botanical garden well known to Muscovites.
From that moment on, the territory of the Neskuchny Garden began to be equipped as a single architectural and park complex. The regular parks of individual noble estates were gradually planted with new trees and shrubs and turned into landscape ones. famous architect Evgraf Dmitrievich Tyurin magnificently decorated the two-story building of the Oryol arena and gave it a solemn look.
Demidov Palace, or as it began to be called, the Alexandria Palace was also remade in the traditions of the late Empire and equipped with chambers for the emperor and spacious halls for receiving guests. Then, according to the project of E.D. Tyurin, two large buildings were completed to the main palace - Freylinsky and Cavalry, as well as a small guardhouse building. From Kaluzhskaya street to the main entrance to the palace there was a main access road. It originated from the beautiful gate, which was decorated with the allegorical sculpture "Abundance".
Hunting lodge. Filming of the program "What? Where? When?"
In 1917 royal estate nationalized. Then the Neskuchny Garden was renamed the Park of Culture and Leisure named after Maxim Gorky. Year after year, many new buildings and pavilions were erected here, as well as the landscape was changed - alleys were broken, the river bank was strengthened and new plantations were made. Therefore, the modern park is very different from what it was 100 years ago.
What buildings are preserved in Neskuchny Garden
In the "Demidov" part of the park, the Alexandria Palace has been preserved, built in the middle of the 18th century in the style of classicism and reconstructed in the 1830s as an imperial residence. On the sides of the luxurious house are small colonnades that support neat semicircular balconies. Left and right of central entrance you can see chamber statues of dogs. In 1930, a beautiful cast-iron fountain appeared on the square in front of the palace, which until that time had adorned Lubyanka Square. And this fountain was built at the end of the 19th century according to the project of the talented sculptor Ivan Petrovich Vitali.
Former arena. Mineralogical Museum named after A.E. Fersman in the Neskuchny Garden
Nowadays, the palace is occupied by the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and, unfortunately, it is impossible to see the building inside. On the terrace where the famous once grew Botanical Garden, today there is a large Green Theater, which can accommodate up to 15 thousand spectators.
From one of the owners of the estate, Count Fyodor Orlov, a two-story building of the arena, built at the beginning of the 19th century, remained in the park. Since 1936, it has housed one of the most famous mineralogical museums in the country, named after Academician A.E. Fersman. Unique museum collections began their history in 1716 and still attract many visitors.
The Summer (or Tea) house also remained from the Oryol estate. It was erected in 1796 and today is the oldest of the manor buildings. The picturesque two-storey building in the classicism style is decorated with a slender colonnade, and one-storey outbuildings are made on the sides of it. A small playground is equipped nearby and there are benches where visitors to the park like to relax.
Small (Grotesque) bridge
From the estate of Prince N.Yu. Trubetskoy in the Neskuchny Garden, a small neat hunting lodge-rotunda, built in the middle of the 18th century, has been preserved. In it, the hospitable owner liked to spend time with friends. IN modern history This ancient building became famous as a filming location for the TV show “What? Where? When?". In memory of the princely estate of Neskuchnoye, there was also a large ravine with a dam and several alleys of the old regular park.
Relaxing garden
The park area has long been chosen by Muscovites for walking and leisure. Guests of the Neskuchny Garden can walk along the paths past several ponds, admire the picturesque bridges thrown across the ravines and feed almost tame squirrels. Many people like to just sit on the benches in the shade of trees and look at the pleasure boats cruising along the river.
Some places in the Neskuchny Garden look like a dense forest. Oaks, maples, poplars, lindens and birches grow on the territory of the former noble estates, and in summer there are many flower beds. Built for children in the park playgrounds and attractions. For horse lovers there is a Center for the Development of Equestrian Sports.
The Neskuchny Garden is a corner of nature in the center of Moscow, which is often called the pearl of the capital's parks. It has long been a favorite place for Muscovites to walk. And each visitor in the Neskuchny Garden has places that are especially close to the soul. In addition, the choice of entertainment park complex long gone beyond the usual walks along the alleys.
History of the Neskuchny Garden
The garden got its name from the vast Neskuchnoye estate, which belonged to Prince Trubetskoy. The estates of the Orlovs and Golitsyns were also located on these lands, but the name soon spread to these estates. Vacation home was erected in the 1750s and designed in the Baroque style. Over time, the estate expanded: the Versailles garden, alleys, stone and wooden galleries appeared.
The creator of the Neskuchny Garden is considered to be the industrialist Demidov. He owned the territory up to the Orlovs, and back in 1756 he planted the first exotic plants and fruit trees here. Greenhouses cultivated grapes and pineapples. The garden took the form of an amphitheater, and the number of plants on its territory approached 2000. Palm trees from tropical countries were kept in numerous stone greenhouses, and one of the sites was decorated with a pond around which animals and birds from Holland lived.
In 1823, the estate passed into the possession of Prince Shakhovsky, who opened the first institution in Moscow with artificial mineral waters. But they did not receive much popularity, and three years later Shakhovskoy sold the estate to Nicholas I. He, in turn, presented it to Alexandra Feodorovna. During the time of the royal family, new ponds appeared in Neskuchnoye, and the imperial family held tea parties in summer house. The palace itself changed its name to Alexandria.
Alexandria Palace, which houses the Presidium Russian Academy Sciences.
By the middle of the 19th century, the Summer Theater opened in the garden, which quickly gained popularity among the townspeople. He became famous for his rather diverse repertoire. Not only European masters of music performed on its stage, but also gypsy ensembles, magicians and illusionists.
In the 20th century, when the garden was merged with Gorky Park, a no less eventful life awaited it. In 1923, an agricultural exhibition was held on this territory. Its authors were the famous architects Shchusev and Zholtovsky.
In the Soviet years, the Neskuchny Garden acquired new pavilions, many of which are inscribed in the history of the architecture of the USSR. In 1935, a fence appeared around the garden, designed by the architect Dolganov. After itself, the Neskuchny Garden of the Soviet period left sports grounds. A chess club, tennis courts and a table tennis area still operate.
Sights of the Neskuchny Garden
Now dozens of sights from different eras fit in the Neskuchny Garden. First of all, the garden itself attracts attention. It is considered a monument of landscape art, contains flower beds and ancient trees. And on the site of the garden, once founded by Demidov, stands Green theater Soviet era.
Mineralogical Museum.
At the entrance to the garden is the Mineralogical Museum, which occupies the building of the arena. Among its thousands of exhibits are natural crystals, gems, meteorites and products of different eras. In the halls of the museum you can admire amethysts, emeralds, a unique malachite vase, Italian watches and Faberge compositions made of stones.
Particular attention should be paid to the old buildings of the Neskuchny Garden. Entry gates of the 19th century with sculptural compositions on the sides, designed by the architect Tyurin, have been preserved here. One of the oldest buildings in the garden is the Summer House, which was built in the classical style and is decorated with colonnades and balconies. From the height of the second floor, the owners liked to look at the Neskuchny Garden.
Summer house.
chief architectural monument still remains the Alexandria Palace, the facade of which is decorated with columns. At the entrance, two figures of dogs and a fountain were preserved, transferred from Lubyanka Square after a monument to Dzerzhinsky was erected there.
Walking through the Neskuchny Garden, you should pay attention to the gazebos. The most famous of them was erected for the 800th anniversary of Moscow. It was installed immediately after the war, in 1947. The gazebo is decorated with bas-reliefs that briefly tell about the events in the history of the capital - from foundation to important dates liberation of Moscow from invaders.
Arbor-rotunda in honor of the 800th anniversary of Moscow.
Vacationers in the Neskuchny Garden are attracted Fresh air, peaceful landscapes and shady alleys. And in 2007, the Alley of Love, the symbol of which is a clock, became another decoration of the park.
Neskuchny garden, how to get there
The Neskuchny Garden is located in the center of Moscow, on the banks of the Moskva River. It can be reached on foot from the metro station "Leninsky Prospekt" - about 10 minutes.
Another way is to get to the Oktyabrskaya station, transfer to trolleybus number 7, 62 or 33 and be at the entrance to the garden.
Neskuchny Garden on the map of Moscow.
You can also get to Neskuchny Garden by river bus.
Photos of the Neskuchny Garden
Squirrels are the permanent guardians of the Neskuchny Garden.
Path along the Moscow River.
Hi-tech.
Pushkinskaya Embankment runs along the entire Neskuchny Garden. Built in 1937.
The boring garden is a memory of the noble pleasures of the second half of the 17th century. It is located on the banks of the Moskva River and is part of park ensemble Central Park named after Maxim Gorky. Masterpiece landscape gardening art, Neskuchny Garden is a well-known place for romantic meetings in Moscow. historical value landscape park is fixed by the status of a territory specially protected by the state, on which there are sights of interest for acquaintance, about them and will be discussed below.
A little about the history of the creation of "Neskuchny"
The garden got its name from the light hand of Prince Trubetskoy, the organizer of entertainment for the nobility in the middle of the 17th century. The prince's estate gained fame in its time as a place of entertainment. In the 19th century, the palace department, by order of Emperor Nicholas I, bought the estate from the princes Trubetskoy, and at the same time the neighboring possessions of the princes Orlov and Golitsyn. It should be noted that the passion for the park landscape and exotic gardens was typical of the culture of that era.
After the 1917 revolution, the park was nationalized. Now park zone with an area of 59.3 hectares, this is a place of mass visits by Muscovites and guests of the city.
To walk around the Neskuchny Garden, it is convenient to get to it from the Leninsky Prospekt metro station. If you want to walk around Gorky Park first before seeing the sights of Neskuchny Garden, then it’s convenient to get off at the Oktyabrskaya metro station. 
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For a walk, it is better to set aside a few hours in order to have time to get around everything. interesting places in the garden. For example, the Alexandria Palace, you can go to it right along the road from the entrance gate of the 19th century. The pompous building in the classical style, with arched vaults, fully corresponds to its current functionality, the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences is located here, and a cast-iron fountain, brought here from the Lubyanka, is installed in the park near the building. The interior of the building has been preserved in the form in which it was equipped at the beginning of the last century, sculptures by Ivan Vitali and some household items have been preserved. 
In the Neskuchny Garden, the Trubetskoy Hunting Lodge, a rotunda of the 18th century, has been preserved. Now, thanks to the filming of the popular program “What? Where? When?" the interior of the former princely pavilion and the park surrounding it are familiar to a wide television audience.
The Summer House, also known as the "Tea House" of Count Orlov, has been preserved - a building built in the classical style. The solemnity is underlined by white columns, on the second floor there are balconies with a patterned lattice, from where the guests of Prince Orlov opened scenic view to the garden.
You can take a walk to the building of the arena, today the largest Mineralogical Museum in Russia is located here. The museum presents exhibits with the geography of the whole world.
Historical sights have not yet restored their appearance. Requires serious restoration work Bathroom house and pavilion "Grotto".
Eat in the garden and modern architectural structures- gazebo in honor of the 800th anniversary of Moscow. Rotunda with "talking" bas-reliefs - they depict important historical events city from the moment of its foundation and until the middle of the last century, it was created in 1947. Nearby is the "Alley of Love", along which it is pleasant to stroll slowly and admire the nature at any time of the year. 
Archaeological monuments serve as symbols of the historical past in the Neskuchny Garden, but they are endowed with a special charm in the preserved intimate atmosphere of that time. Overgrown stone stairs, humpbacked brick bridges, magnificent ponds and sculptural compositions- all together creates a surprisingly atmospheric environment in which the spirit of romanticism and sophisticated aesthetics lives.
Maybe that's why Neskuchny Garden is chosen as a place for walks by couples in love and lonely romantics, people are more middle age and mothers with babies. This place preserves the memory of times and generations. Still very lively and modern garden really not boring. Care for the past and the future organically coexist here, laughter rings from equipped playgrounds and the rhythm of modern melodies is heard.
