Novo-Znamenka Manor, 18th-century estate in Krasnoselsky District, Russia.
Novo-Znamenka Manor is a three-storey palace with an octagonal belvedere, built for Chancellor Mikhail Vorontsov on the Peterhof road. Its bright blue facade is divided into three sections by white pilasters, with gridded ground-floor windows, a white balcony above a wooden double door and a triangular pediment with an oval window. A grey dome and thin spire top the multi-sided drum, and the estate also includes a Gothic house, a landscape park and ponds.
The estate began in the 1720s as two plots of the Apraksin brothers on the Peterhof road. In the early 1750s Count Mikhail Vorontsov and his wife Anna bought both and from 1753 built a new complex; Giuseppe Trezini drew the main house, but after his dismissal in 1755 Antonio Rinaldi completed it by 1757. Damaged by fire in 1941, the palace stood in ruins until Mikhail Plotnikov restored its facades in the late 1950s.
The estate's name, Novo-Znamenka, came with the Zubov purchase in the early 1790s. Empress Elizabeth visited on 17 August 1759 and dined here, as recorded in a court courier journal. The interior once held a Chinese Room with painted panels on metal sheets and carved oak doors noted by art historians.
The estate stands at Chekistov Street 13 in Krasnoselsky District, on the Petergof highway side of Saint Petersburg. The park stretches along the highway, while the chain of ponds formed from the Sosnovka riverbed runs toward Pionerstroy Street and the Sosnovaya Polyana forest park. The building now houses a department of a Saint Petersburg technology institute, so the interiors are not a museum open to tourists.
The structure displays a blend of architectural styles resulting from multiple redesigns by different artists over time. This layering of design elements makes it a visual record of changing tastes across more than a century.
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