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architects. Contemporary academic studies agree on the fact that, while certain parts and details of the palace can be attributed to specific architects (with different degree of probability), the palace as a whole—even its basic layout—has no single author apart from
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project. Reid and his associate, Nikolai
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family. This project did not materialize; by 1792, Sheremetev built only a two-story wooden theater hall, apparently discarding Casier's plans. Then, as
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in Moscow, but eventually preferred to build it in the country, far from city life. Building a new large theater in
Kuskovo would have ruined an already completed ensemble, so in the same 1790 Sheremetev finally chose Ostankino.
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granted these lands to the hold of Alexey Satin, relative of statesman Alexey
Adashev. Satin, however, was executed by Ivan in 1560, and the lands passed to one Horn, a German mercenary, and, in 1585, to
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Sheremetev's heirs barely maintained the palace; in the 1830s they demolished the old living quarters dating back to the 17th century, and demolished some of the free-standing service buildings.
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inherited Ostankino upon the death of his father. Nikolai Sheremetev was a patron of theater. In the three following years Sheremetev established house theaters in
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and remodelled by 1939. Ostankino park proper shrunk to just one square kilometer as the lands further north became the State Botanical Garden.
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