This place is known to all Muscovites. If you move along the Garden Ring towards Kursky Station from Paveletsky, just beyond the Yauza, on a hill among the trees, there is a hospital located in an ancient estate.

In 1828, merchants Vasily and Pyotr Usachev, who were engaged in tea trade, purchased a plot on the high bank of the Yauza from the widow Stepanida Nevezhina and began its improvement. For this, they invited the famous Swiss architect Domenico Giliardi.

During the Soviet period, the estate housed a tuberculosis sanatorium "High Mountains," and later, a medical and physical culture dispensary. Now, it is home to the Center for Sports Medicine, intended for the rehabilitation of athletes.

According to Giliardi's project, the main house of the estate, the carriage house, and the stables were built, forming an inner courtyard.

In the estate's park, several pavilions were erected, including the Music Pavilion and the Tea House, as well as a grotto. The Tea House burned down, and the Music Pavilion was destroyed and demolished.

The main entrance to the main house is located in the inner courtyard, not from the street.

The main entrance is adorned with sculptures of lions and griffins.

To this day, the main estate house, the carriage shed, the stables, some outbuildings, the ramp, the grotto, and two rotunda pavilions have survived. The final scene in the hospital in the film "Pokrovsky Gates" unfolds around the grotto.

The Usachevs made their estate so luxurious that it was on par with noble estates. They often hosted receptions, and the Usachevs became so well-known in Moscow that the bridge over the Yauza near the estate began to be called "Usachevsky."

The grotto is located between the main entrance to the estate and the ramp leading to the second entrance. The ramp is designed in a semicircle and is adorned with lions and vases. The lions' mouths are buttoned up.

At the edge of the hill leading to the Yauza embankment, two eight-column rotunda pavilions were installed according to the project of Giliardi's student A. Grigoryev. The second one is a little further, also at the cliff.

The last owners of the estate were the Naydenov merchants. The main owner, Nikolai Alexandrovich Naydenov, left a significant mark in the history of Moscow local lore. Thanks to him, we can see old Moscow in photographs collected in the famous Naydenov albums.