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Out of Town Attractions
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Tired of the big city? Need that breath of fresh Russian country air? Well, let's take the cab out of town for a few hours and enjoy a virtual day trip to one of Moscow's many outlying attractions. Enjoy a glimpse of the Russian countryside, have a look around a suburban Imperial palace or two, and explore the country houses of some of the city's most famous literary, artistic and aristocratic figures. Let's go!
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| | Abramtsevo Estate - idyllic country estate located 70 kilometers north east of Moscow, in one of the most beautiful and most painted landscapes in all of Russia, and featuring a fascinating museum of Russian Folk Art and some wonderful examples of traditional Russian architecture. |
 | | Arkhangelskoe Estate - 18th century Neo-classical suburban palace and formal gardens belonging to the rich and extravagant Prince Nikolai Yusupov and once the most indulgent and celebrated playground of Moscow's wealthy aristocracy. |
| | Borodino - site of the bloodiest battle of the Napoleonic Wars of 1812 between some 130,000 French troops and the 121,000-strong Russian army under Field Marshall Kutuzov. Today the battlefield area features a museum detailing the various phases of the battle and numerous monuments to those who died. |
| | Klin - located 80 kilometers northwest of Moscow, the small city of Klin was founded in 1234 on the banks of the River Sestra, a tributary of the Volga, and during the late 19th century became home to the famous Russian composer Pyotr Tchiakovsky, who wrote his famous ballets The Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker in his dacha there. |
 | | Kolomenskoe - old imperial estate nestled on the steep west bank of the Moscow River, 10km southeast of the Kremlin, and surrounded by 390 hectares of ancient forestland. The estate was once the childhood home of Ivan the Terrible and a summer retreat for Tsar Mikhail Romanov, a young Peter the Great, Tsar Alexander I and Empress Catherine the Great. |
 | | Kuskovo Estate - 18th century Muscovite country residence, built by the Russian General and hero of the Battle of Poltava, Boris Sheremetev, who was awarded the land and the local village in 1715 by Peter the Great. Features a wedding cake-like main Palace, constructed entirely from wood, and formal French gardens that prompted the estate's nickname the Moscow Versailles. |
 | | Ostankino Estate - pink and white Neoclassical palace surrounded by extensive grounds and once one of the many Moscow residences of the Sheremetev family, one of the wealthiest and most powerful noble families in Russia during the 18th century. Irrevocably linked to the scandalous marriage of Count Nikolai Sheremetev to one of the serf girls from his Kuskovo Estate. |
| | Peredelkino - famous dacha settlement and writers' village roughly 25 kilometers southwest of Moscow, which became popular amongst the capital's cultural and literary elite late last century and which is now the burial site of the famous Symbolist writer, Boris Pasternak. A small museum to the poet has now been set up in his small wooden country house. |
 | | Tsarytsino - the 18th century site of Catherine the Great's planned "Empress's village" and an intriguing example of a grandiose Imperial summer residence that was never completed and never lived in. |
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