When you happen to get to Karasan (the former Rayevsky’s estate), first of all you should look around the well-known Yuzhnoberezhny (Southern coast) Park.

The park territory is huge — 18 hectares, all trees here are planted as small groves. The Lebanese cedar was planted by Michael Borozdin, the first Karasan owner, almost 200 years ago. The southern visiting card of the palace is a grove of slim stone pines — the Italian pines.

It grows in front of the building facade. If you are lucky enough to find the meldar blossoming, you’ll enjoy persistent smell of lilac. Not without reason among the common people meldar is called «the Chinese lilac». Nearby there is a bamboo grove, it is about one thousand years old. You may walk along the path to a pith oak, which is 180 years old.

Nearby one of cypress kinds grows. Its native land is Mexico. In utward appearance it is absolutely not similar to a cypress, it is called "marsh" because when it changes needles, gets marsh colour. The tree is known due to the fact that paper of the most high quality in the world is made of its wood. On the opposite side there is a grove of Atlas cedars. In its homeland this tree grows in high mountains, that’s why it doesn't have any tops — such is protection against a strong wind. Nearby there are the Himalayan cedars with sharp tops. Not far from the sea the sequoia grows. The tree comes from the North America. It is named after the leader of the Indians who had created writing for his people. One of the sights in the park is a fountain with a statue of the Greek woman of divine beauty. And one of the most estimable trees in park is a pistachio obtusifolious. It is 500 years old. A bare tree, that’s near the pistachio, is called a "shameless person" or "health-resort visitor" because of its distinguishing feature to dump its bark in the summer.

Once this district was called Kuchuk-Lambat, its territory was three times larger. It was looked after by four generations of the Borozdin-Raevsky family. While walking in the park, you will surely pass by «Pushkin's house». The young poet and its friend Raevsky had a journey through the valley of Maidens and went to the Borozdins in their estate of Kuchuk-Lambat. At that time, in 1815, it was the only house in the neighbourhood. And regional specialists suppose that Pushkin could hardly miss this building.

And, at last, the Raevsky’s palace appears before you in all its beauty. It is due to this building, constructed in the grove of Italian stone pines, Karasan is well-known. Regional specialists believe that the name to this site was given by Nikolay Raevsky Jr. Colourful stained-glass windows and stucco molding underline arab-saratsin style, typical for constructions of Morocco, Tunis and Algeria. In Russia it was fashionable at the beginning of the XIXth century.

Now in the Raevsky’s house there is one of the buildings of the sanatorium "Karasan". There were 18 rooms in the palace and after re-planning three more were added. In the palace cellar they found some things belonging to the Raevsky - frameworks for pictures, the old English piano and a clock. In three halls of the palace the stucco molding on the ceiling has preserved its original appearance . In the biggest hall — an ancient fireplace and a marble staircase leading on the second floor. "Karasan" health center of general therapy is situated in one of the most picturesque corners of the Southern Coast of the Crimea, 15 km away from Alushta in Yalta direction, near Partenit urban settlement. You can get there by direct flight to Simferopol or through Kiev or Odessa.