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Entrance to the palace

The central entrance to the palace. Moscow Museum-Estate "Kuskovo".

Kuskovo is a former estate of the Sheremetev earls, where the architectural and artistic ensemble of the 18th century was preserved.

The ensemble includes: a palace built in the second half of the 18th century in the style of classicism; regular, decorated with sculpture park with pavilions: "Grotto", "Orangery" (projects of the serf architect Fyodor Argunov, second half of the XVIII century), "Hermitage" (second half of the XVIII century), "Italian" (XVIII century) and " Dutch ”(XVIII century) houses; The Church of the Savior of All-Merciful (XVIII century); Ceramics Museum.

The center of the ensemble is the palace, in which the layout and decorative furniture of the interiors with works of Russian and Western European visual and applied art have been preserved; bestowal portraits of Russian emperors and several generations of the owners of the manor - the Sheremetev earls.

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