For me, a very unusual post. I want to talk about my childhood.
Recently I visited a wonderful country ... And this place is called Petrovsky-Razumovskaya metro station in Moscow. Well then, there was not even a metro to talk about. And it all began with this rotunda.

I was 3 years old and I lived next to the park on Sobolevsky Proezd, house 4. Nearby there was a tram, we lived in a wooden and two-storey dormitory. Absolutely without conveniences. In the yard stood sheds, each family has its own. And there they put unnecessary things. We went to Timiryazev baths, it's close. And they were friends of all families. Yes, because this hostel stood since the Great Patriotic War. And it was there that my father came from the Kursk-Orel arc, wounded. And my mother guarded the subway in the troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, having arrived from the Moscow region of Alexandrov.
But it's still about the neighboring estate.
We went to the park. And it was an abandoned pond. As it turned out, this manor Razumovsky. The first mention refers to 1584 year. After that, for a long time the village was in desolation, and only when it went to Count Rzumovsky, it began to be mentioned in anal

A dam was built on the river Zhabne. And a cascade of ponds appeared. Nearby were parks with sculptures, grottos and gazebos. According to the testimony of the English traveler Cox in 1778, the estate was more like a city than a dacha. The estate consisted of 50 brick and wooden houses. Count Razumovsky had many bodyguards and servants there. There was an orchestra ..
After the death of G.Kazumovsky, the estate passed to his fourth son Lev Kirillovich.
During the war of 1812, Razumovsky was forced to emigrate to Tambov province. And on the territory of the estate, the army of Marshal Ney of the Napoleonic army stopped. The village was plundered, although the countess Razumovskaya used to host here the king and prince of Prussia. After the invasion of Napoleon, the forests surrounding the estates were cut down to restore burnt Moscow.

After the death of Razumovsky, the estate was sold to Dolgorukov Yu.V. Then for a short time he visited the possession of the princes of the Gorchakovs and the counts of the Uvarovs.
In 1828 the estate was acquired by the apothecary von Schultz.
In 1847 the Petrovskaya dacha with the sections Likhobor and Vladykino attached to it was divided into 10 plots. However, the boundary departmental work on the division was not approved and the highest decree of ownership were acquired in the treasury for the establishment of an agronomical institute.

In 1865 the Petrovskaya and Agrarian Forest Academy was opened, which is now the Timiryazev Academy. There is a version that one of the owners, Naryshkin, was Pyotr 2, that is why Petrovsky Park is called.
There it is very beautiful, and for some reason it is started. When you happen there are associations with the song, there are in the old park a wonderful pond, there the lilies are blooming.
I want to go back there. But it is possible, and not possible. It was so long ago.
