Big Vyazemy village is first mentioned in the spiritual literacy Ivan Kalita. In the days of Boris Godunov, here it was built a wooden palace with numerous outbuildings, a huge garden and a pond with a stone dam. Ruined manor was 1694g. Peter I to his tutor and friend, Prince Boris Golitsyn (1651-1714), who took up her recovery, but not very active. The main building of the estate began when Nikolai Mikhailovich Golitsyn (1727-1786), at the end of the XVIII century: a little away from the church up new manor house, which at the time of the War of 1812 and took Kutuzov and Napoleon. Related Stories estates and AS Pushkin - his grandmother owned the estate Zakharovo, and the whole family went to church to worship Vyazemy.

A local legend about the owner of the manor - old Princess Galitzine derived AS Pushkin in "The Queen of Spades" in the image of the old woman, the Countess - still remains a legend, as the estate belonged to the princess did not, and her son, whom she, however, often visited .

The estate has a unique library collected Boris Golitsyn (1769-1813) and has about 30 thousand volumes. In Soviet times, it was distributed by the State Library; heirlooms Golitsyn also went to museums. Manor house first occupied colony for homeless children, then - resort to the old Bolsheviks. Before the Great Patriotic War there was a parachute school, tank school, and during the war - the hospital. Only in 1987. it was decided to create a museum in the mansion, which is now in it and is.

Transfiguration Church in Big Vyazemy was built in the 1590s. High chetyrehstolpny five-domed temple stands on a high basement and is surrounded on three sides by open galleries with arched openings. Several small arches and decorates each drum, as well as the walls, separated by a small and narrow windows blades apart. In general, "arched" decor - the main feature of the church decorations, give it up and striving amazing with such a huge amount of harmony and stateliness. The temple is surrounded by a stone wall of the XIX century, beside which, by the apses, buried brother Pushkin - Nicholas. The arched shape of the fence harmonises perfectly with the decor of the church.