# Kuskovo Estate, Moscow > The Sheremetev counts’ 18th-century summer estate in east Moscow: a wooden palace with original interiors, a formal French garden on a lake, a shell-lined Grotto and a string of pavilions. The park costs 100 ₽, the palace 500 ₽. Open Wednesday to Sunday, park 10:00–18:00; closed Mondays and Tuesdays. Allow 1.5–2 hours, plus about an hour each way from the centre. Web page: https://yesgo.io/russia/moscow/kuskovo - City: [Moscow](https://yesgo.io/russia/moscow), Russia - YesGo score: 29/100 (Yes, if nearby) - Time on site: 1 h 30 min - Entry: Park 100 ₽, palace 500 ₽ - Opening hours: Wed–Sun: park 10:00–18:00, palace and Grotto 10:00–16:00 (last entry 15:30); closed Mondays and Tuesdays - With kids: Fine with kids - Closed: Mondays and Tuesdays - Cleaning day: Last Wednesday of the month (one page of the official site says last Tuesday) - Park: 10:00–18:00, last entry 17:30 - Palace and Grotto: 10:00–16:00, last entry 15:30 - Hermitage and Great Stone Orangery: 10:00–18:00, last entry 17:30 - Dutch and Italian houses: Not open every day — check the weekly timetable - Park ticket: 100 ₽ (concession 50 ₽); not needed if you buy any pavilion ticket - Palace: 500 ₽ (concession 300 ₽) - Grotto, Hermitage, houses, Orangery: 300 ₽ each (concession 200 ₽) - Combined ticket: Palace + Grotto + Portrait Gallery: 900 ₽ (concession 600 ₽) - All-pavilion ticket: 1,700 ₽ (concession 1,250 ₽) - Children: Free up to age 6; ages 7–17 on concession, sold at the ticket office only - Address: 2 Ulitsa Yunosti, Moscow - Phone: +7 495 375-31-31 - Coordinates: 55.73528, 37.80750 - Facts checked: 29.10.2026 ## Key facts - **1769–1775** — the wooden palace of Count Pyotr Sheremetev was built (source: Russian Wikipedia, “Kuskovo (estate)”; mos.ru city portal) - **Mon & Tue** — the estate’s two weekly closing days (source: Official Kuskovo Museum-Estate website, visitor rules) - **Until 1917** — the Sheremetev family owned Kuskovo (source: English and Russian Wikipedia, “Kuskovo”) - **1932** — the State Museum of Ceramics took its name and home at Kuskovo (source: English and Russian Wikipedia, “Kuskovo”) - **Fyodor Argunov** — the Sheremetevs’ serf architect, designer of the Grotto and the Great Stone Orangery (source: English and Russian Wikipedia, “Kuskovo”; Great Soviet Encyclopedia) - **1918** — Kuskovo became a museum estate (source: Great Soviet Encyclopedia, “Kuskovo”; Russian Wikipedia) - **1749** — work began on the Dutch House (source: Russian Wikipedia (begun 1749); English Wikipedia (1749–1751)) - **1775** — Catherine the Great visited the estate (source: English and Russian Wikipedia, “Kuskovo”) - **1960** — the estate became part of the city of Moscow (source: Great Soviet Encyclopedia, “Kuskovo”; Russian Wikipedia) - **2022** — Kuskovo and Ostankino merged into one museum-reserve (source: Russian Wikipedia, “Kuskovo (estate)”; official museum website) > **Closed on Mondays and Tuesdays** Most Moscow museums close one day a week; Kuskovo closes two — Monday and Tuesday, park included. One more day a month is a cleaning day, which the visitor rules put on the last Wednesday. Plan Kuskovo for Wednesday to Sunday, and start early. ## Kuskovo Estate tickets and prices Entry is paid, even for the grounds. **The park is 100 ₽** (concession 50 ₽), but any pavilion ticket already includes the park, so you never pay twice. **The palace is 500 ₽** (concession 300 ₽). The Grotto, the Hermitage, the Dutch and Italian houses and the two halls of the Great Stone Orangery are 300 ₽ each. For a first visit, the **900 ₽ combined ticket** — palace, Grotto and Portrait Gallery — is the sweet spot; 1,700 ₽ gets you into every pavilion open that day. Children up to 6 go free; ages 7–17 pay the concession rate, which is sold only at the ticket office with ID. Phone photos are free. Regular tickets are also sold on the museum’s official website — but foreign Visa and Mastercard cards haven’t worked in Russia since March 2022, so bring roubles in cash or pay with a Russian card or Mir. > **The palace closes at 16:00** The park stays open until 18:00, but the palace and Grotto shut at 16:00, with last entry at 15:30. Arrive after a late lunch and you’ll see the palace from outside only. Neither building is heated: in the cold months dress for the outdoors, and in winter you’ll wear the museum’s felt overshoes inside the palace. ## How to get to Kuskovo Estate 1. From [Red Square](https://yesgo.io/russia/moscow/red-square), walk to **Kitay-Gorod** metro and take the purple line (line 7, Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya) towards Kotelniki. Get off at **Ryazansky Prospekt** — six stops. 2. From Ryazansky Prospekt, take bus **133 or 208** to the “Muzey Kuskovo” stop. The same buses also run from Okskaya station. 3. Easier with no bus: the **MCD-4** suburban line from Kursky station to **Kuskovo** station, then about a 10-minute walk. From MCD-3 Plyushchevo it’s about 15 minutes on foot. 4. From **Vykhino** metro, buses 409 or 620 go to “Muzey Kuskovo”; from **Novogireevo**, buses m64, 247, 314, 635 or 974 go to “Ulitsa Yunosti”. 5. The address is 2 Ulitsa Yunosti. Budget roughly an hour each way from the centre. ## Is Kuskovo worth visiting? Yes, if you like palaces, the 18th century or formal gardens. Kuskovo is Moscow’s most complete country estate of its age: the palace is the real thing, not a rebuild, with its ballroom, state bedroom and drawing rooms intact. The Grotto alone, lined with shells and coloured glass, is unlike anything else in the city. No, if you only have a day or two in Moscow. The round trip eats close to two hours that are better spent on the [Kremlin](https://yesgo.io/russia/moscow/moscow-kremlin) and the centre. And if you just want a free walk in a park, Kuskovo charges even for the grounds — go to [Kolomenskoye](https://yesgo.io/russia/moscow/kolomenskoye) or [Tsaritsyno](https://yesgo.io/russia/moscow/tsaritsyno) instead. ## What to see at Kuskovo - **The palace** — built of wood but made to look like stone: pink walls, white columns, a grand staircase. Original 18th-century interiors; allow 30–35 minutes. - **The Grotto** — Fyodor Argunov’s pavilion, its interior covered in shells, tufa and coloured glass. Allow 20–30 minutes. - **The Dutch House** — a small brick house in the Dutch taste, tiled inside, beside its own pond. - **The Italian House** — a miniature Italian-style villa where the owners retreated from guests. Both houses open on selected days only. - **The Hermitage** — a round pavilion for private dinners; the story goes that the laid table was hoisted to the upper floor so no servants were needed. - **The Great Stone Orangery** — the largest pavilion, now home to the Portrait Gallery and exhibitions from the museum’s ceramics and porcelain collection. - **The French garden** — straight avenues, marble statues and the classic view of the palace across the Big Pond. ## How long to spend, and where to eat Give it **1.5–2 hours** for the park, palace and Grotto, or half a day with every pavilion and lunch. With just an hour, the museum itself suggests the palace and the Grotto. There are two cafés on site: **Beze**, by the Dutch House near gate 2, with a terrace over the canal and the Big Pond, and **1715**, by the American greenhouse, serving European food. Pushchairs, sports gear and bags larger than 55 × 35 × 25 cm aren’t allowed in the pavilions. Bikes, scooters and drones are banned in the formal park, and so is swimming in the ponds. ## Before you go: checklist - [ ] It isn’t Monday, Tuesday or the last Wednesday of the month - [ ] I’ll reach the palace and Grotto before 15:30 - [ ] Checked the weekly timetable if I want the Dutch or Italian house - [ ] Roubles in cash or a Russian card — foreign Visa and Mastercard don’t work in Russia - [ ] ID for a child’s or student’s concession - [ ] No pushchair or big bag for the pavilions - [ ] Warm layers in the cold season — the palace isn’t heated ## Kuskovo vs Tsaritsyno vs Kolomenskoye | | Kuskovo | Tsaritsyno | Kolomenskoye | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | What it is | The Sheremetevs’ 18th-century estate | Catherine the Great’s palace ensemble | Royal summer residence and 16th-century church | | Highlight | Original palace interiors, the Grotto, the French garden | The Grand Palace, ponds, landscape park | Church of the Ascension (UNESCO), Tsar Alexei’s wooden palace | | Park entry | Paid, 100 ₽ | Free | Free | | Where | East Moscow | South Moscow | South Moscow, on the river | | Closed | Mondays and Tuesdays | Museums on Mondays | Museums on Mondays | For genuine 18th-century interiors, pick Kuskovo. For a free riverside walk, Kolomenskoye. For sheer scale and lakes, Tsaritsyno. ## Moscow palaces compared Every palace and estate in Moscow rated by YesGo. - [Moscow Metro](https://yesgo.io/russia/moscow/moscow-metro) — YesGo score 70/100 (Yes, go) · 1 h 30 min · 75 ₽ on Troika - [Kremlin Armoury](https://yesgo.io/russia/moscow/kremlin-armoury) — YesGo score 44/100 (Yes, if nearby) · 1 h 30 min · 1,400 ₽ - [Kolomenskoye](https://yesgo.io/russia/moscow/kolomenskoye) — YesGo score 38/100 (Yes, if nearby) · 2 h · Park free, palace ≈ 700 ₽ - [Kuskovo Estate](https://yesgo.io/russia/moscow/kuskovo) — YesGo score 29/100 (Yes, if nearby) · 1 h 30 min · Park 100 ₽, palace 500 ₽ - [Tsaritsyno](https://yesgo.io/russia/moscow/tsaritsyno) — YesGo score 26/100 (Yes, if nearby) · 2 h · Park free, palace 900 ₽ ## East Moscow in a day: Kuskovo and Izmailovo Kuskovo in the morning while the palace is open, then the [Izmailovsky Kremlin](https://yesgo.io/russia/moscow/izmailovsky-kremlin) and its flea market, and the dark-blue metro line straight back to Red Square for the evening. YesGo works out the timing and transfers. 1. [Kuskovo Estate](https://yesgo.io/russia/moscow/kuskovo) — YesGo score 29/100 (Yes, if nearby) · 1 h 30 min · Park 100 ₽, palace 500 ₽ 2. [Izmailovo Kremlin](https://yesgo.io/russia/moscow/izmailovsky-kremlin) — YesGo score 36/100 (Yes, if nearby) · 1 h · Free entry, museums from 300 ₽ 3. [Red Square](https://yesgo.io/russia/moscow/red-square) — YesGo score 79/100 (Yes, go) · 30 min · Free 4. [Zaryadye Park](https://yesgo.io/russia/moscow/zaryadye-park) — YesGo score 48/100 (Yes, if nearby) · 1 h · Free > **The best photo is across the Big Pond** For the whole palace, steps and columns in one frame, walk to the far bank of the Big Pond. Morning light falls on the façade, and the shore is at its quietest. ## Good to know Ostankino is the Sheremetevs’ other Moscow estate and part of the same museum-reserve since 2022, but it’s across town in the north, next to the TV tower. Kuskovo is also the name of a district and an MCD-4 station; the estate itself is at 2 Ulitsa Yunosti. ## Tips - Be there for 10:00 opening — the palace and Grotto close at 16:00. - The 900 ₽ combined ticket covers what most first-timers want: palace, Grotto, Portrait Gallery. - MCD-4 to Kuskovo station is the simplest route — a 10-minute walk, no bus. - Have lunch at Beze by the Dutch House, looking over the pond. - Under-7s go free, but leave the pushchair outside the pavilions. - Pair it with the Izmailovsky Kremlin, also in east Moscow. ## Questions ### How much are tickets to Kuskovo Estate? The park is 100 ₽, the palace 500 ₽, the Grotto and other pavilions 300 ₽ each. The combined palace, Grotto and Portrait Gallery ticket is 900 ₽; all pavilions cost 1,700 ₽. A pavilion ticket includes the park. ### What are Kuskovo’s opening hours? Wednesday to Sunday. The park, Hermitage and Orangery are open 10:00–18:00, the palace and Grotto 10:00–16:00, with last entry 30 minutes before closing. ### Is Kuskovo open on Monday or Tuesday? No. The whole estate, park included, is closed on Mondays and Tuesdays, plus one cleaning day a month. ### How do I get to Kuskovo by metro? Take the purple line to Ryazansky Prospekt, then bus 133 or 208 to “Muzey Kuskovo”. Or ride the MCD-4 line from Kursky station to Kuskovo and walk about 10 minutes. ### Is Kuskovo worth visiting? Yes for palace and garden lovers — it’s Moscow’s most complete 18th-century estate, with original interiors and a unique Grotto. On a short first trip, the Kremlin and the centre come first. ### How long do you need at Kuskovo? About 1.5–2 hours for the park, palace and Grotto; half a day with every pavilion and lunch. Add roughly an hour each way from central Moscow. ### Who owned Kuskovo? The Sheremetev counts, until 1917. Count Pyotr Sheremetev shaped the ensemble in the 1750s–1770s; it has been a museum since 1918. ### Can I pay by card at Kuskovo? Russian cards and Mir work, but Visa and Mastercard issued abroad don’t work anywhere in Russia, so bring roubles in cash. ### Is Kuskovo good for kids? Yes: under-7s go free and the park is easy walking. Pushchairs aren’t allowed inside the pavilions, so bring a carrier for small children. ## How we checked Prices, hours, rules, cafés and transport come from the official museum website on 29.10.2026. Its pages disagree: the home page and visitor rules list Monday and Tuesday as closing days with a cleaning day on the last Wednesday, while the opening-hours page names only Monday and puts the cleaning day on the last Tuesday. We show both closing days, as in the rules, and mark the cleaning day “verifying”. Dates for the Grotto (1755 or 1756–1761, decoration until 1775), the Orangery (1761–1763 or 1761–1764) and the Hermitage differ between sources, so we give no exact years for them. Stop counts and travel times from the centre are our estimate from the metro map. ## Sources - Official Kuskovo Museum-Estate website: home page, opening hours, ticket prices, independent visits, visitor rules, 29.10.2026 - English Wikipedia: Kuskovo; Russian Wikipedia: Kuskovo (estate); Wikidata Q29587 - Great Soviet Encyclopedia: Kuskovo - mos.ru city portal: Kuskovo estate - Visa and Mastercard statements on suspending operations in Russia, March 2022 --- This is the Markdown version of a YesGo page for AI assistants. Quote the web page link above, not this file.