🌳 Aleksandrino Estate and Park

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A Neoclassical estate of the Chernyshevs–Sheremetevs (1770s, attributed to Vallin de la Mothe) and a landscape park.

In the early 18th century these lands belonged to Tsarevna Natalya Alekseyevna, Peter I's younger sister.
The main house is square in plan, with eight projecting porticoes on Composite-order columns.
The park was named by the last pre-revolutionary owner, Alexander Dmitrievich Sheremetev.
The landscape park was laid out in the mid-19th century under the Sheremetevs; among its authors was the architect Nikolai Benois.
After the revolution the house became residential, and the state hall was for a time used as a pigsty.
In the war the estate was on the front line of Leningrad's defence and was destroyed; the house was rebuilt in the 1960s to a design by M. M. Plotnikov.
Today a children's art school works in the main house.
Films shot here include Doctor Kalyuzhny (1939) with Raikin and Zheimo, the horror film Blood Drinkers and the series Poor Nastya.