The Ostankino Estate is an architectural ensemble of the XVII-XVIII centuries that used to be the out-of-town residence of Counts Sheremetevi. Nowadays the Ostankino museum-estate, which received its first visitors on 1 May 1919, is the heart of the architectural and park ensemble.

    The palace-theater of the Ostankino estate had been designed by F. Kamporezi and V. Brenna, and then it was built by Russian architects P. Argunov, A. Mironov and G. Dikushin in the period between 1792 and 1799.

    Today this palace is the world's only monument of architecture that is an entirely wooden construction that has retained numerous authentic interiors and theatrical mechanisms of the end of the XVIII century within its walls. The great-halls of the theater foyer, the make-up rooms for serf actors, the branch of theatrical machinery and the furnace rooms of the palace-theater had never been exposed to a large-scale restoration until recently