🖼 Grand Tsaritsyno Palace

A pseudo-Gothic palace of red brick with white-stone decoration, built by Kazakov for Catherine II.

In 1775 Catherine II bought the Black Mud estate and renamed it Tsaritsyno.
The ensemble was first built by Vasily Bazhenov, but in 1785 the empress inspected the palace and ordered the main buildings demolished.
The new palace was built by Matvey Kazakov from 1786; after Catherine's death in 1796 construction stopped.
For almost two centuries the palace stood unfinished and without a roof.
The building was completed and restored in 2005–2007, after which a museum opened in it.
The style of the ensemble is called Russian, or pseudo-Gothic: red brick with white-stone decoration.

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