Taleon Residence Sheremetev Palace. History.

The history of the palace began in the eighteenth century, when the walls of the mansion were erected. Over the next two centuries it changed hands several times, passing from private owners to state institutions and returning to private hands.

In 1883 the mansion was acquired by Count Alexander Dmitriyevich Sheremetev and it then belonged to him and his family up to the 1917 revolution.
Alexander Dmitriyevich was a descendent of the long-established noble Sheremetev family that had been known since the fourteenth century. The family was extremely rich, with an income founded chiefly on trading grain, cattle and timber. They also obtained profits from shares, bonds and real estate. Alexander spent his childhood and youth in the Sheremetevs’ main residence – the “Fountain House” on the Fontanka. After graduating from the Corps of Pages, the Count embarked on a successful career.

Alexander bought the mansion on the occasion of his marriage to Maria Fiodorovna Heiden and soon embarked on a major refurbishment during which all the interiors were redecorated. The couple lived in the palace for over thirty years. Their four children were born and raised here. But the revolution of 1917 put an end to a magnificent era.

After the Sheremetevs’ departure for France, the mansion housed a succession of Soviet organizations.

From 1934 to the early 1990s the mansion was known as the Leningrad Writers’ House named after the poet Mayakovsky. Following a devastating fire that took place in November 1993, the building stood abandoned until 2001, when the Taleon company undertook to restore it. This began a new page in the history of the Sheremetev mansion.

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