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Muromtzevo Mansion

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Description

Muromtezvo Mansion in Russia is an Eastern European castle with a Western European flair. The legend of this odd castle begins in the 19th century, when a Russian colonel, Vladimir Khrapovitsky traveling through France made aquaintance with a French lord. The two began to squabble over the superiority of each country, and after tiring of the lord extolling the ornate architecture of France, the Russian declared that he could build a castle of equal magnificence in his own country. The Frenchman scoffed, and replied if he could build a castle as grandiose as Louvre (Paris, France) with the park better than the Park of Versailles, he would come to Russia himself to see it. The colonel was a successful merchant and had all the resources to win the bet. He hired an architect, P.S.Boytsov from Moscow to build his dream mansion. Boytsov had to come up with the authentic French-style palace with huge sculpted gardens and an extensive system of lakes and fountains. Today it's an extensive maze of imposing buildings and overgrown gardens, a sad but strangely compelling place. Colonel Khrapovitsky emigrated to France with the first sign of Bolshevik trouble, and his palatial grounds were left to decay ever since. The story gets even more haunting, when a letter from Khrapovitsky wife was found recently, addressed to "the good old peasants" of Muromtzevo in 1928 with the plea to send some money, apparently Khrapovitsky died in utter poverty and their only possession was this land in Russia...which is now an abandoned mansion with no one to admire it’s beauty.

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abandoned mansions