🖼 Dashkova's Kiryanovo Estate

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Princess Dashkova's 1784 dacha — a museum of the history of the Peterhof Road, where hundreds of estates once stood.

The name comes from "Kir and Ioannovo": on the day of Sts Cyrus and John, 28 June 1762, Catherine II ascended the throne.
The stone house was built in 1783–1784; the design is officially attributed to Quarenghi, but Dashkova named herself as the author.
"I even toiled alongside the masons," Dashkova wrote of the construction in her Memoirs.
The semicircular plan gave the house the nickname "Horseshoe"; legend says the empress's horse lost a shoe here.
In the 1970s the building was restored as a wedding palace, and since 2007 a branch of the Narvskaya Zastava Museum has worked in the wing.
The Western High-Speed Diameter runs right up against the estate.

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