Moscow's Ostankino Estate Set for $1.8 Million Renovation

By The Moscow Times

Aug. 18, 2014

Ostankino Estate, a grand mansion in the north of the Moscow. Sbarichev / Wikicommons

City Hall has put out a tender for the renovation of 18th-century Ostankino Estate, a grand mansion in the north of the capital, Moscow's competition policy department said Monday in an online statement.

Authorities will accept bids of up to 68.4 million rubles ($1.8 million) to do renovation work that will involve removing mold from paintings, restoring pillars and stoves, and repairing the stucco decoration in the estate's theater. ?

Applications will be accepted until Sept. 9, 2014, with the winner to be announced a week later.

The renovation should take 15 months to complete, the statement said.

The estate, which was built in northeast Moscow between 1790 and 1799, served as an out-of-town residence for the Sheremetev family, one of Russia's most influential noble families at the time.

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