🏛 Brattsevo Estate

Светлогорский пр., 13

A Neoclassical estate of the 1810s, whose design is attributed to Voronikhin: the main house, the Milovid rotunda and a landscape park above the Skhodnya.

By one account, the stone house was built in 1813–1815 on the site of a wooden one that burned in 1812.
In 1780 Count Alexander Stroganov bought the estate as a settlement for his wife Ekaterina Trubetskaya; she lived here with Ivan Rimsky-Korsakov, a former favorite of Catherine II.
The last owner, Prince Nikolai Shcherbatov, was director of the Historical Museum and had a telephone line run to the estate from Moscow.
In 1925 an experimental station for new crops of the Institute of Applied Botany worked here, led by Nikolai Vavilov.
After the Chelyuskin in 1934, Otto Schmidt rested here and arranged for the estate to become a rest home for polar explorers.
In the 1830s–1840s views of Brattsevo itself were painted on the vault of the domed belvedere.