In place of the present park them. KE Tsiolkovsky until the end of the 18th century was Vygonnaya urban land. After opening January 13, 1777 Kaluga Kaluga governorship became the provincial center and got a master plan for reconstruction, for which in the southwestern part of the city in the pasture land is a park of lime, which was sustained in the regular style. It had a central area and a divergent beam from her straight alley.

In 1796, in the west of the park was built a country house for Mengli Giray Khan, the last representative of the Crimean Khanate, who was exiled to Kaluga Catherine II. When Mengli Giray released to Moldova, from home made governor cottage with outbuildings.

One of these buildings in 1826 adapted the premises for the poet Yu Neledinsky-Mielec. After a quarter-century lived in this wing of the great Russian writer NV Gogol. NV Gogol twice visited Kaluga in summer 1849, he lived here for a month in 1850 - about 2 days. Gogol were given rooms in the annexe next to the governor's summer residence. In his first visit here, he worked on Volume 2 of "Dead Souls" and read some chapters on the balcony of the governor's summer residence AO Smirnova - Known in literary circles, with which Gogol has friendly relations. Smirnov was in those days the wife of the governor of Kaluga (which she invited Gogol came to Kaluga).

After some time, the park grew and became a favorite place for walking kaluzhan. Zagorodny Park called the garden and the street leading to it - Zagorodnosadskoy. On the shady alleys of the garden walked: the great Russian critic VG Belinsky, the famous actor Mikhail Shchepkin, writer AK Tolstoy. In 1899, in honor of the centenary of the birth of Pushkin Pushkin called Country Garden.

In 1920, due to careless handling of fire burned house Gogol, and in 1922 was dismantled and the governor's summer residence by reason of dilapidation. At the site of the house where once lived Gogol, a memorial obelisk with a bas-relief portrait of the writer-bronze (sculptor ED Nikiforov-Kirpichnikova).

The Pushkin loved the garden walk Konstantin Tsiolkovsky .  In 1925, out of respect for an older scientist in the valley of the cell was arranged descent from the terraces, stone steps, benches .  Ziolkowski died in 1935 decided to bury him in the garden of Pushkin in the central area of ​​the park .  September 21, 1935 held a solemn funeral .  A 24 September 1936 at the tomb of the scientist was opened majestic monument obelisk (architect B . T .  Dmitrieva), which is a narrow arrow-shaped triangular obelisk standing on a three-part pedestal trihedral .  The monument stands on a circular stone platform, its height - 12, 5 m .  On top of the pedestal - cast iron reliefs: portrait Tsiolkovsky among schoolchildren; rocket projectile into interstellar space .  At the bottom there are: a cable-testament Tsiolkovsky and reply telegram Stalin memorial inscription, a quote from a letter Tsiolkovsky engineer B . H .  Vorobiev .