Here you can get acquainted with the Upper Light Petersburg society during the heyday of the Peterhof road. A tour of the manor house, you will learn about the people who made up the first dictionary of the Russian language, and some interesting discoveries of modern scientists regarding history of St. Petersburg. Only in the “Museum Night” guests will have the opportunity to visit the central part of the estate Kiryanovo.
First mistress of the manor was the famous Princess Ekaterina Romanovna Dashkova, nee Vorontsov. A friend and associate of Empress Catherine II, a participant of a palace coup in 1762, the director of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences, memoirist, one of the most prominent personalities of Russian Enlightenment.