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Ostankino Estate Museum has stood on the outskirts of Moscow for more than 250 years. Count Nicholas Petrovich Cheremetiev (1751-1809) commissioned this neoclassical building and it was built between 1792 and 1798. Ostankino served both as his personal residence and as a creative hub for artists, musicians, and writers. (...)

Ostankino Estate Museum has stood on the outskirts of Moscow for more than 250 years. Count Nicholas Petrovich Cheremetiev (1751-1809) commissioned this neoclassical building and it was built between 1792 and 1798. Ostankino served both as his personal residence and as a creative hub for artists, musicians, and writers. The estate was designed by a group of architects and craftsmen who lived as serfs on the count’s land. The entire palace was laid out on a single story; its central space is a domed pavilion that lies between two large halls, a theater, and an assortment of smaller domestic areas. The rooms are decorated in a variety of styles, such as Egyptian, Italian, and Greek, and use an ample combination of wallpaper, stucco, wood, faux marble, and papier-mâché to achieve desired design effects. The count acquired a reputation for entertaining hundreds of guests at his home with recitals, theatrical performances, and all manner of social gatherings. After the Russian Revolution in 1917, the estate was appropriated as a state museum but suffered from neglect and poor repairs in the decades after its conversion.