Travelog post for: Tomi the Bear

Today I`ll show you Tsaritsino park!

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The estate is known from the late 16th century, when it belonged to Tsarina (queen in Russian) 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, when the estate was bought by empress Catherine the Great, it received its present name, which means “Tsarina’s”. In 1776-85 architect Vasili Bazhenov built a new palace for the Empress here, but in 1786 Catherine ordered it to be partly pulled down. Until 1797 architect Matvey Kazakov was working on the construction, but the palace remained unfinished. 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.

This week is named "Maslenichnaya" - when people make pancakes and celebrate the end of the winter. At the one photo you can see scarecrow - at the end of the day people will burn this scarecrow to kill the winter.
You also can see children haing fun and all of us sitting on the ice sculptures. There are many sculptures here, but our camera can`t show it normally.