🖼 Kuskovo Estate Palace

The 18th-century Sheremetev estate: a wooden palace, a formal French park, pavilions and ponds.

The ensemble was created in the 1750s–1770s to the design of Count Pyotr Sheremetev by the serf architects Fyodor Argunov and Alexei Mironov.
The Great House was built in 1769–1775 under Karl Blank, from drawings by the Frenchman Charles de Wailly.
The palace was meant for summer receptions; the halls preserve gift portraits of emperors and several generations of Sheremetevs.
Catherine II visited Kuskovo in 1775 and 1787.
The estate was divided into the area beyond the dam with the Menagerie, the French formal park and the English park, the Grove.
Kuskovo became a museum-estate in 1918.

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