The Moscow Estates festival will unite more than 50 historical sites of the capital city
From June 1 onwards, the sites of the Moscow Estates Festival will be full of action. Moscow residents and visitors to the city will be able to enjoy concerts of chamber music, historical picnics, outdoor games and much more. The schedule of events and conditions for visitors are published on the site of the Russpass service.
The Basmanny cluster will invite amateur artists to take part in a summer plein air exhibition. Experienced instructors will give a postcard painting workshop in pastels, and a presenter will share historical facts about the rich heritage of the estate and park.
In Bauman Garden visitors will be able to drop in on the summer theater, which will present interesting facts from the history of old Moscow. The guests will meet Alexander Pushkin and the heroes of his verse novel Evgeny Onegin, and learn about the history of the Basmanny district estates in conversation with merchant Nikolai Stakheev and architect Mikhail Bugorsky. Walking through the garden, visitors will learn about life in the neighborhood, and about literary and art history in an interactive format. In the evening, the Limoncello Band will perform in the open air. The concerts will include light jazz, instrumental classics and modern compositions performed in an original style.
The Tsaritsyno Museum-Reserve will hold historical picnics on the theme “In the footsteps of great poets”. Participants will be able to stroll along the alleys of Moscow estates and look behind the scenes of poetic works. From 12:00 to 6:00 p. m. there will be outdoor games. Everyone will learn to play lapta, croquet, badminton, gorodki and pick-up sticks, and the most skillful will be able to try their hand in the shooting gallery.
On June 1, a street post office will operate in Bauman Garden, where everyone will be able to write a postcard with a real goose quill. During the summer, post offices will also open at the Vasilchikov estate and the Khrushchev-Seleznev estate.
Izmailovsky Park and the Kuzminki-Lyublino Museum-Reserve will hold master classes on 19 th century style flower arranging. They will be taught to make boutonnieres and make spectacular compositions of fresh flowers. Those who wish will also be invited to take a promenade through the picturesque park in the company of the hospitable owners of the estate. Participants will learn about the rules of etiquette and learn to dance like members of 19 th century fashionable society.
The Moscow Estates Festival will last until September 14 and will take in more than 50 historical sites. Among the 11 new venues of the festival are the Tolstoy Estate Museum in Khamovniki, the A. V. Shchusev State Research Museum of Architecture and the Trubetskoy Estate Park in Khamovniki. The program includes more than two thousand events.
The Summer in Moscow project, the city’s main summer festive program, will run from June 1 and incorporate the capital’s most exciting events. Charity, cultural and sporting events will take place each day in all areas of the city, most of them free of charge. The Summer in Moscow project will be held for the second time, and the new season will be more exciting, with new, original and vibrant festivals and events in addition to the traditional festivities.
The Moscow City Tourism Committee, Mostourism, is developing a sustainable brand for the capital as one of the main tourist destinations in Russia. All year round Mostourism creates events that bring together residents and visitors to the city, and adds new items to the city’s schedule of events. In winter and summer, Moscow residents and tourists can immerse themselves in a past era at the historical sites of the Moscow Estates festival, discover the capital’s tea-drinking traditions at the Moscow Tea Party or enjoy a Moscow Breakfast at one of the hundreds of restaurants participating in the project.