Late in May of 1775, Empress Catherine II purchased the Chornaya Gryaz estate and the surrounding villages. That same summer, a Decree was issued renaming the village of Chornaya Gryaz to Tsaritsyno. The design and construction of the new imperial residence were entrusted to court architect Vasily Bazhenov. For more than 20 years, outstanding Russian architects Vasily Bazhenov and Matvey Kazakov worked on the residence construction. After the Empress's death in 1796, all works were ceased.
At the beginning of the 19th century, the park was landscaped and stone pavilions were built. In 1860, Emperor Alexander II made a profitable decision to lease the dilapidated palace buildings and land plots. By the end of the 19th century, Tsaritsyno had become a well-maintained and prestigious dacha village. After the October Revolution, Tsaritsyno along with the surrounding areas was renamed as settlement Lenino, and communal apartments appeared in the old buildings. In 1927, the Tsaritsyno Historical, Art, and Local History Museum opened in one of the buildings, which in the 1930s, was renamed as the Lenin Local History Museum of the Garden and Horticultural District.
In the late 1960s, large-scale housing development began in the Orekhovo-Borisovo district. A security zone covering more than 1,000 hectares was established around the Tsaritsyno ensemble. In 1984, the State Museum of Decorative and Applied Arts of the Peoples of the USSR opened in Moscow. Work was underway to restore old buildings and the park and pavilions were reconstructed.
On September 2, 2007, the Tsaritsyno palace complex was officially opened.
Today, Tsaritsyno is one of the most beautiful and frequented attractions in Russia.
The stamp features the Grand Palace of the Tsaritsyno Museum-Reserve (18th century); the margins of the souvenir sheet show the panorama of the park.
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