The Kuskovo Memorial Estate is a fine example of the 18th century architecture and park landscaping. The estate originally owned by the Sheremetev family as a summer countryside residence. Nicolas Benjamin Delapierre. Portrait of Count Peter Borisovitch Scheremetev. Kuskovo is first mentioned in documents dating from the beginning of the 16th century.
First it was a small boyar estate only about seven kilometers from Moscow. The land was not good for cultivation, and was thus of little economic significance. The estate was however an ideal hunting ground, and it even attracted the attention of the Tsar. The elder Sheremetev was a well-known Field Marshal in the times of Peter the Great, a hero of the battle of Poltava, and a companion-in-arms to the Tsar.
He was later given the title of count. His son and heir Piotr Sheremetev after the marriage to Princess Varvara Cherkasskaya in became one of Russia's richest noblemen.
The neighboring Cherkassky estate, Veshniakovo, was added to Kuskovo, and in accordance with the fashion of the day, a huge country residence was built on the combined grounds for holidays and pleasure trips. The construction of the estate was carried out in the ss on an area of over hectares. It was the work of hundreds of serf and hired masters, both Russian and foreign, among them the well-known Russian architect K. Blank, Yu.
Kologrivov, serf architects F. Argunov, A. Mironov, G. Dikushin, sculptor I. Zimin, garden landscaper A. Focht, the moulder J.
