Kuskovo

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Kuskovo park is a large green area in Moscow on the territory of Kuskovo Estate Museum. This French regular park around the palace, with its marble statues and lovely ponds, is probably the only remainder of the baroque gardening in Moscow. Eight park alleys converge in a single point, where the circular Hermitage pavilion (1764-77) still stands. Other structures in the park include the handsome Summer Grotto (1775), the Summer Theatre (1755), the Kitchen wing, a garden parterre, and winter conservatories. The park and palace were visited by many prominent persons, such as king Stanislaus II of Poland and Empress Catherine the Great. The Sheremetevs marked each visit of the monarch by a marble obelisk or a column, still visible before the palace.

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