Bogoroditsky Palace-Museum and Park
About museum
In Bogoroditsk there is a palace built on the site of the estate of the Counts Bobrinsky. The building is an early Neoclassical ensemble that includes the palace, the park, and the Holy Kazan Church. The museum houses collections of numismatics, archaeology, documents, photographs, antique books, and decorative and applied arts. Also on display are works by battle painter M. I. Avilov, about 200 works by Bogoroditsk artist P. A. Kobyakov, and gouaches by an Italian artist. On the palace grounds there is a museum department dedicated to Count Alexey Pavlovich Bobrinsky, who built the railway from Khrushchevo station to Yefremov and Yelets. The park layout was designed by the scholar and encyclopedist A. T. Bolotov. The palace is not only the town's center but also one of its landmarks.