🖼 Grand Palace of the Arkhangelskoye Estate

Красногорск, пос. Архангельское

A late-18th-century Neoclassical palace with a belvedere and colonnade, built for the Golitsyns and later the Yusupovs.

The palace design was commissioned in Paris in 1780 from the architect Jacques-Jacot Guerne for 1,200 livres; he apparently never visited Russia.
Construction began in 1784; in 2003 restorers found a copper foundation plaque with this date.
In 1810 Prince Nikolai Yusupov bought the unfinished estate for 245,000 rubles.
In 1812 the palace was plundered by the French, and in January 1820 a fire destroyed most of the collections.
For its terraced park Arkhangelskoye was nicknamed the "Versailles of the Moscow region"; Pushkin, Karamzin and five emperors visited.
The palace holds two large Tiepolo paintings about Cleopatra and twelve canvases by Hubert Robert.
The largest hall is the double-height Oval Hall on the main axis of the ensemble.

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