Park around the Petroff Palace. Created in 1827. Total area 20 hectares.
Originally an Imperial palace built by Catherine the Great as a resting stop to the Kremlin, today a luxury hotel with 43 rooms and numerous enormous ballrooms.
Petroff, or Petrovsky Palace or Castle (Петровский подъездной дворец, "St.Peter's Arrival Palace") was begun in 1776 and officially completed November 3, 1780 (though it is likely that construction continued for a few years afterwards). This palace was intended to be the last overnight station of royal journeys from St. Petersburg to Moscow. Catherine visited once, in 1785; Paul I abandoned it; Napoleon burned it down. The palace was restored in the 1830s and again in 1874 with minor alterations.
The red-brick castle with white detail originally had two royal apartments on the first floor and plenty of service space on the ground floor. They all converge on a central rotunda hall. The descriptor of "Gothic" is not exactly appropriate here, since Kazakov borrows heavily from Naryshkin Baroque and earlier Russian themes like the oversized bottle-shaped pillars by the main entrance.
The building remained a royal hotel until 1918, but also housed a variety of non-royal residents; Lermontov used to stay in the castle at his friends' apartment. Starting in 1920, the palace housed Zhukovsky Air Force Academy, which vacated the site in the 1990s.
The palace was elaborately restored from 1999-2010, when it reopened as a luxury hotel.
This is an interesting little walk in the Petrovsky park. You need to visit 6 zones there. Then you'll receive the coordinates of the cache.
It's very simple. You need install on your smartphone app and cartridge. Come to the specified location, start cartridge and start playing!
Attention! This is the Wherigo Cache. If you have a device with Android OS inside it, just install free WhereYouGo application from Android Market, download Wherigo cartridge in "Pocet PC" format, place it on SD card of your device in "WhereYouGo" folder, launch WhereYouGo application and start playing!
Thank you very much to sTeamTraen for access to the Earwigo!