To truly experience winter with all its big snowdrifts, crisp walks, adventures and fabulous discoveries, you need to leave the city. If you agree with this (even if you disagree), then we recommend our favorite places around Tula, which are ideal to visit after all the gifts are handed over and received, salads are eaten, relatives and friends are happy that they have not forgotten about them and even paid you a return visit. Dress warmly, cheer up, and let's move out of the city.
The estate of the great writer Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy, who wrote the Tula "everything". Merch, street art, souvenirs, and clothes with references to the famous count can be found in many places, even far from Yasnaya Polyana. This is already a local mythology.
In the manor itself, it is important to know: You can visit the Main house only as part of an excursion, it is better to buy a ticket on the website and very, very in advance. In the manor itself, you need to walk a lot, talk with the employees, do not hesitate to ask questions and be sure to try the Ankovsky pie according to Sofya Nikolaevna's recipe. Not because it's necessary, but because it's delicious.
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The Nature Museum-Reserve of the great artist V.D. Polenov. It is located on the high bank of the Oka River. We are sure that this is exactly how you imagined a 19th-century noble manor with all its beautiful buildings, outbuildings, snow-covered expanses and views of the county town. Only in reality, everything is much more beautiful and better. Well, we must pay tribute, Polenovo, it's more about dynamics and vivid emotions than about a sedate pastime. Although the territory is vast, everyone will find their own rhythm and be satisfied.
The open spaces, the fabulous church, the history carefully preserved by the locals, the crystal air ringing with frost and the feeling of some distant past that came to you only in a dream. You seem to remember the feeling itself, but you can't explain it. It's just warm in my chest and I want to smile. That's why we love Dedilovo. What else can you add.
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By the way, first the Mosolovs built a secret pig iron factory in the forests of Dubna, and only then a manor house. Now it is a wonderful museum that tells about the cultural life of the richest merchants of the 18th century, who not only lived beautifully, but also loved their metallurgical business. In the exposition, first of all, you need to pay attention to cast-iron antiques. It turns out that jewelry of complexity and elegant beauty come out of such base metal.
Our universal onelove. We are sure that "Mariana eye pits, Martian chronicles of us" is also about Conductors. The space that arose in spite of it is still waiting for its "Burning man" and believes in real heroes. In winter, you need to listen to the snow falling, drink hot tea from a thermos and ride on the icy surface of the canal.
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The country's first landscape park was formed in Bogoroditsk. And the first children's theater was also created in Bogoroditsk. And there is also a magical palace here, which you would expect to see, rather, near St. Petersburg than in Central Russia. The palace belonged to Count Alexei Bobrinsky, the son of Catherine II and Count Orlov, but more importantly, one must go to Bogoroditsk in order to understand the real province with all its fears and joys.
The smallest city in our vast country, Chekalin, is incredibly cozy, proud, bold, with reinforced concrete faith in itself. It has preserved the best features of the patriarchal province with its well-fed domestic cats, crisp frosty laundry on ropes, smiling residents and bright fairy-tale grandmothers who will surely treat you to something homemade. Perhaps the best place on planet Earth to understand what Angelica Varum's "Town" is really about.
