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Meyendorff Castle
Meyendorff Castle. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

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Meyendorff Castle or Meindorf Castle (Russian: Мейендорф or Мейндорф) is a Châteauesque architectural extravaganza constructed at the turn of the 20th century to Pyotr Boytsov's designs as a private residence of the Swedish-Baltic German Meyendorf family, (a cadet line of the Baltic German noble House of Uexküll). Located between Barvikha and Odintsovo along Podushkinskoye Highway (Russian: Подушкинское шоссе) A106 in Odintsovsky District, Moscow Oblast west of Moscow, the castle was constructed between 1874 and 1885.

Adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA). Photography via Wikimedia Commons.

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