Zakharovo The village has existed since the beginning of the XVII century, but many times changed its owners. In 1804 it acquired the grandmother of Alexander Pushkin - Maria A. Hannibal. Pushkin's family came here in the early spring and returned to Moscow in late autumn. On the shore of the pond Zaharovskaya grew a huge linden tree near which on a semicircular bench, it was said, liked to sit a little Pushkin.

M.A.Gannibal parted with Zakharov almost immediately after the departure of his grandson in the same school in 1811 it passed to the family of her sister Agrippina Alekseevny. Her grave in the Big Vyazemy appeared near the grave of his brother who died in the poet Nikolai Zakharov.

At the end of the XIX century. Russia raised the issue of the public to acquire Zakharova in state ownership, as it was with the Mikhailovsky. But the money was not there, and the estate remained private property, and at the turn of the XX century. lost Pushkin's old home. At the same foundation it was built a new house, repeating architectural house of Pushkin's time.

After the Revolution, the manor finally fell into disrepair. Initially it housed an orphanage, and then summer camp newspaper. Only in 1987 it was decided to establish on the basis of large estates and Zakharovo Vyazemy State Historical and Literary Museum-Reserve Pushkin.

Every year on the first Saturday of June Zakharov held Pushkin Festival.