The metro stop shares a name with the Tsaritsino Palace, Catherine the Great's never-finished-left-to-decay-famously-vandalized dacha. Catherine was never happy with the palace-away-from-the-palace and dismissed her architect before the place was ever finished. Tsaritsino has been a romantic ruin since 1775. The structures on which alpinists used to practice rock climbing have been restored, or rather finished to the specifications of Moscow's current Mayor. 150 rubles, ($3.50) lets you wander the halls, which I have to do next time I'm there. I just saw the building on our way to the honey festival, which was on the grounds. Thanks for letting use your yard, Catherine.
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Oh!!!!! Honey festival! We went there for it last fall! I’m running out of honey now… I’m waiting for the honey festival later this fall at the Manezh 🙂
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twenty-something years of "what have you been up to?" 
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