Sheremetev Palace, Saint Petersburg, Russia Mug

Sheremetev Palace, Saint Petersburg, Russia Sheremetev Palace (Fountain House) is a monument of Baroque architecture, family residence of the Sheremetev Counts. The lot was granted in 1712, by Tsar Peter the Great to Field Marshall, Count B.P. Sheremetev, who built a clay-walled house on it in the mid-1710s. His son, Count P.B. Sheremetev constructed a two-storied Baroque stone building with an attic, richly decorated by modelling in the late 1740s (architect thought to be S.I. Chevakinsky); Behind the palace, a regular garden with a grotto, Hermitage pavilion, Chinese summer house (1750-60s, architect F.S. Argunov) were situated. Since the early 19th century, Sheremetev Palace was one of centres of St. Petersburg’s cultural life. *...