🗿 Sergievka: the Stone Head and the palace above the cliff

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A forest park west of the house: Sobstvennaya Dacha, the mysterious Stone Head in the ravine and the Leuchtenberg Palace with a view of the gulf.
Stops
- St Seraphim's Church — The church of the metochion of the Diveyevo Monastery — the street takes its name from it.
- Sobstvennaya Dacha (the Imperial Private Dacha) — An estate where 'no one was admitted without announcement'. Alexander II spent his honeymoon here.
- Stone Head — A warrior's face carved into a huge boulder. The sculptor is unknown.
- Sergievka: the Leuchtenberg Palace — A wooded estate park on the cliff above the gulf. Today it is home to biologists.