Evening View Through The Pond On The Palace And Church With Bell Tower In Museum-estate Kuskovo, Moscow. Editorial Photo

The estate belonged to the counts Sheremetev and intended for magnificent receptions and crowded theatrical festivals and festivities. In the museum-estate Kuskovo there are more than 20 unique monuments of architecture, survived by the present, as well as French formal garden estate with marble sculptures, ponds and pavilions. In possession of the Sheremetevs Kuskovo remained for over three hundred years, until Socialist revolution of 1917. In 1918 the Kuskovo estate was given the status of the Museum-estate, and in 1938 it was merged with the Museum of ceramics, the only one in the Soviet Union. Today it is one of the world`s largest holders of ceramics and glass collections of different countries from antiquity to modern times.