🖼 Lyublino Estate Museum (Durasov Palace)

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An 1801 palace with an unusual plan — a circle from which four wings extend; inside are painted ceilings and 19th-century costumes.

Before Peter the Great's time the village was called Godunovo — after its owner Grigory Petrovich Godunov.
The palace's owner Nikolay Durasov was famed for his hospitality: according to a contemporary, he kept sturgeon and huge pineapples at the ready.
The main house is a free variation on the Palladian Villa Rotonda; the author is thought to be I. V. Egotov, but there are no documents.
According to legend, Durasov repeated in the house's plan the order he had received — the Cross of St Anna.
The palace's ceilings and interiors were painted by Domenico Scotti.
In the summer of 1866 Dostoevsky lived in Lyublino: here he wrote the fifth chapter of "Crime and Punishment".
The old park was destroyed by a tornado in 1904.

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