page_title: Tsaritsyno Palace
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Tsaritsyno Palace / History
caption_attribution_description: עברית: פנים ארמון צאריצינו, ארמונה המשוחזר של יקטרינה הגדולה, מוסקווה, רוסיה English: Interiors of Tsaritsyno, Moscow
context_page_description: Tsaritsyno is a palace museum and park reserve in the south of Moscow. It was founded in 1776 by the order of Catherine the Great.
  The palace has lent its name to the surrounding district and the nearby metro station.
context_section_description: The estate is known from the late 16th century, when it belonged to Tsaritsa Irina, sister of Tsar Boris Godunov. At that time it was called Bogorodskoye. In the 17th century it belonged to the Streshnevs and then to the Galitzines. 
  In 1775, the estate was bought by empress Catherine the Great, who happened to be  passing through the area and fell in love with the picturesque beauty of the land.  It received its present name, which means “Tsaritsa’s”. 
  In 1776-85 architect Vasili Bazhenov built a palace for the Empress there. When the palace was almost complete, the Empress visited Tsaritsyno to inspect it.  She declared the rooms to be too cramped and dark, and the palace unlivable.  As a result, Catherine ordered the palace to be torn down. The remnants of the foundation of Bazhenov's original palace are still visible in the park.
  In 1786, Matvey Kazakov presented new architectural plans, which were approved by Catherine.  Kazakov  supervised the construction project until 1796 when the construction was interrupted by Catherine's death. Her successor, Emperor Paul I of Russia showed no interest in the palace and the massive structure remained unfinished and abandoned for more than 200 years, until it was completed and extensively reworked in 2005-07.
  Currently, in Tsaritsyno there are a history and architecture museum, a landscape park with an adjacent forest, an art museum, the Biryulyovo dendropark, and a cascade of the Tsaritsyno ponds.  It is managed by the Tsaritsyno Museum Reserve, founded in 1984.
caption: Smaller hall inside the grand palace
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