The small provincial town of Dagomys is located 12km from the center of Sochi, on the Black Sea Coast and is Russia's tea capital and a favored holiday resort. Long ago people noticed that the climate here differs from the one of other regions of the Black Sea coast. In summer it’s a little bit cooler here - due to a unique relief of numerous mountain ranges airflows bring coolness and freshness here. The name of the town as translated from the Circassian language (one of the Caucasian languages spoken in some of the villages of the Krasnodar region) is ‘a cool, shady place’.

It was here where at the beginning of the century the family of tsar Nikolay the Second bought the land. In 1896 it was decided to start the construction of the Tsar’s Nicholas II estate here. The magnificent park laid out on the territory of the Tsar’s estate remained practically intact to present day.