Neskuchnoye estate, Historical estate in Yakimanka District, Russia

Neskuchnoye estate is a former country estate on the right bank of the Moscow River, now part of Neskuchny Garden. Its main building is a long two-story palace with a pale yellow facade and white trim, a projecting central portico of six white columns, a balcony and a gilt coat of arms above. The ground floor has a central double door reached by a wide stone staircase, and tall white-framed windows line both floors beneath a grey metal roof with dormer windows and chimneys.

Prince Nikita Trubetskoy bought the riverside plot on 18 October 1728 in the name of his five-year-old son Pyotr. In the early 1750s a Baroque country house by architect Dmitry Ukhtomsky rose here. By 1793 Count Fyodor Orlov, who had bought the neighbouring Demidov estate, rebuilt that palace in the classical style and added an eight-column portico.

The name Neskuchnoye ("not boring") came to cover the Trubetskoy estate and its neighbours by the late 18th century. The surviving brick Hunting Lodge, a covered pavilion from the regular park, is now known as the venue of the quiz game "What? Where? When?". Fyodor Orlov held feasts at the former Demidov palace for his daughter Anna Chesmenskaya, ending with fireworks.

The estate grounds form the Neskuchny Garden, the southern section of Gorky Park along the right bank of the Moscow River. Enter from the park side or from Komsomolsky Prospekt; the surviving Hunting Lodge, a brick pavilion, stands among the trees. The grounds are large, so allow time to walk between the main house and the garden.

In the 1820s, Prince Shakhovskoy attempted to establish a health resort here with artificially produced mineral water, an early such venture in Russia. This experiment shows how ambitious projects were developed even at smaller estates during that era.