Meyendorff Castle

Castle Meyendorff (Russian Майендорф or Майндорф; inscription therefore Meiendorf, May- village or Meendorf ) is the guest house of the Russian President. It is built in neo-Gothic style as a castle, surrounded by a large park and is located in Barvikha ( Барвиха ), 10 km west of Moscow city boundary at the luxury shopping street Rublyovka. It serves the Russian presidential administration to accommodate state guests and as a site of political meetings.

History

The castle was built in 1874 by order of General Kazakov for his daughter Nadezhda, which the German - Baltic Baron Michael von Meyendorff ( 1861-1941 ) married his second wife, a son of Felix von Meyendorff and Olga Princess Gorchakov.

1905 to the Russian Tsar have lived temporarily in the castle, after the October Revolution of 1917 Lenin lived there. Since 1935 it was part of a sanatorium, but declined in the following decades and was restored in 2003 and modernized luxurious.

Affairs ( later than 1890): generous feature

Interior 2008: typical press photo in front of a fireplace of the castle ( Medvedev and Lukashenko )

Interior 2008: Nagorno-Karabakh Agreement (also: Meiendorf Agreement) with Aliyev and Sargsyan