Bolshiye Vyazyomy

Bolshiye Vyazyomy (Russian: Большие Вязёмы) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) in Odintsovsky District of Moscow Oblast, Russia.

In 1694 the estate was presented by Peter I of Russia to his tutor boyar Boris Alexeyevich Golitsyn as a fief for having saved him during the Moscow uprising of 1682.

It was under Nikolai Mikhailovich that the preserved stone manor house and outbuildings of the estate were built in the Louis XVI style.

By the end of the third day after the Borodino battle, on 10 September, the main quarter of the Russian army was situated in Bolshiye Vyaziomy.

31 August] 1812 the main forces of Kutuzov departed from the village in three columns, and Malye Vyaziomy was occupied by the French Dragoons of the Imperial Guard.

It’s also remarkable for ‘some very charming sculptures, some of them really good’, which Captain Bonnet – at the same time finding its position ‘a bit dreary, surrounded by woods pierced on one side by avenues, with a little stream and with lakes, frozen for eight months in the year, and formed with the help of dikes’ – will relish, bivouacking there with Razout’s division (III).

[10]As they were 'daily bothered by numerous pulks of Cossacks' Napoleon ordered to clean the area and forage with the assistance of de:Johan Frederik Wilhelm Veeren and a Dutch flying squadron, two battalions of the 33rd Regiment Light infantry.

16 September] 1812 this battalion was attacked by 200 peasants armed with lances near the country house of the Golitsyn family after a large supply of food was seized and loaded onto 26 wagons.

In 1908, Golitsyn made up his mind, stimulated by the Stolypin reform to make a leased datcha settlement on his estate.