Neskuchny Garden is the oldest Moscow park. It is part of the Gorky Culture Park, located between Leninsky Prospekt and the Moskva River. Near the house number 14 on Leninsky Prospekt, you can see the main entrance to the Neskuchny Garden. How to get there by public transport? There are several options. For example, from the Oktyabrskaya metro station, you can drive three stops on any trolley bus. You can also take the land transport from the metro station "Leninsky Prospekt" or walk from the "Shabolovskaya".
History of Neskuchny Garden
Neskuchny Garden arose when three estates belonging to the families of the Orlovs, Golitsins and Trubetskoys were bought for the royal family. The first owner of the Orlov estate was the famous industrialist Demidov. He was fond of botany and arranged in his estate a magnificent
botanical garden, in which there were about 8,000 species of various plants. Orlov, having become the owner of the estate, built pavilions and pavilions fashionable at that time, erected several monuments in honor of military victories. Emperor Nicholas I united the purchased estates and presented to his wife Alexandra Fedorovna. For the new mistress, the palace was rebuilt, which has been perfectly preserved to this day. Now it houses the Presidium of the
Russian Academy of Sciences. The palace building is located near the main entrance. From here it is good to start a walk through the garden, since the buildings of the palace complex are perfectly preserved in this part of it.
Moscow, Neskuchny Sad: how to get there by public transport?
The territory of the Neskuchny Garden is huge - about 60 hectares. In addition to the main entrance, from Leninsky Prospekt there is another one. But already without such beautiful gates decorated with sculptures, as can be seen at the main entrance to the Neskuchny Garden. How to get to the second entrance near Gagarin Square? Very simple - on foot from the Leninsky Prospekt metro station. After leaving the subway, go to the other side of the road to house number 30 - and you are in Neskuchny Sad. If you are on the embankment, you can take a walk from the Sparrow Hills along
St. Andrew's Embankment and walk to Pushkinskaya Embankment. This will be the entrance to the Neskuchny Garden. If you are in the Gorky Park of Culture and Rest and want to move from it to the Neskuchny Garden - how to get in order not to get lost? The reference point should be the
Pushkin bridge connecting the riverbank, Pushkin and Frunze embankments.
In this place, as it were, the park ends and Neskuchny Garden begins. How to get from here to the Frunzenskaya metro station? Very simple - cross the bridge over the river and go a little along the Frunzenskaya embankment, then along the underground passage to the metro.
Different generations of Muscovites like to walk in Neskuchny Garden. There are romantic corners for couples in love, old bridges, fountains, arbors. This place is good for families with children. Here the episodes of the program “What? Where? When?" in the hunting lodge of the Trubetskoy estate. This is a very beautiful place. Many wedding processions call in Neskuchny Garden. In Moscow, wedding photos can be taken in many places, but more and more couples choose the charming corners of the Neskuchny Garden as their background.