Ostafyevo State Museum-Estate/ Russian Parnassus

Imperial Russian Interiors: 2 - The House of Prince Lev M. Kotchubey

This magnificent mansion on the English Embankment has an impressive history. The original stone house dates to the 1740s and was built for Grand Duke Mikhail Golitsyn. In 1802, the house was acquired by Nikolay Rumyantsev, son of Ekaterina Golitsyna and was reconstructed. The architect, Vasily Glinka retained the proportions of the original building, but completely changed the appearance of the facade, which was decorated with a massive 12-column portico with an elaborate pediment with an alto-relievo of Apollo on Parnassus and other figures. The interior spaces housing the vast art collection of the Rumyantsev family, becoming, in 1831, a museum, open to the public. In 1861 the whole collection was moved to Moscow and the mansion changed hands several times, in the course of which, was altered by the architect Alexander Stepanov. At the beginning of the 20th century, the mansion passed into the hands of Prince Lev Kotchubey, son-in-law of the Duke of Leuchtenberg, who became the last owner of the mansion. It is from this time that the photographs were taken. In 1916 the mansion was again sold and was almost certain to be demolished. The 1917 Revolution stopped this from occurring.
In 1938, the mansion was gifted to the Museum of the History and Development of Leningrad, which until then had been housed in the Anichkov Palace. Restoration of the state rooms was carried out in 2003. It is now home to a branch of the Museum of the History of St. Petersburg .

Music: The Ist movement of the Violin Concerto in A Minor by Glazunov

Russia: Museum-Manor of the XVIII century KUSKOVO

Russians are awesome - we love Russia

MOSCOW, LOCATION #8.Усадьба ОСТАФЬЕВО

Остафьево было приобретено 9 августа 1792 года Андреем Ивановичем Вяземским в честь рождения своего сына Петра. Здесь новый хозяин построил дворец, знаменито это место не только этим именно здесь несколько раз гостил великий русский поэт, писать Александр Сергеевич Пушкин. Александр Сергеевич прозвал липовую аллею Русским Парнасом и по преданию вся усадьба стала носить второе название Русский Парнас.
Мы в зимнем Остафьево, ну что пошли путешествовать.
Официальный сайт усадьбы:
Адрес: г. Москва, п. Рязановское, с. Остафьево
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Ostafyevo was acquired on August 9, 1792 by Andrei Ivanovich Vyazemsky in honor of the birth of his son Peter. The new owner built a palace here, and it is not only this place that the great Russian poet, Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin, visited several times. Alexander Sergeyevich nicknamed the fake alley Russian Parnassus and according to legend the whole estate was named Russian Parnassus.
We are in the winter Ostafyevo, so we went to travel.
The official site of the estate:
Address: Moscow, Ryazanovskoe village, Ostafievo.