Meyendorff Castle

Meyendorff Castle or Meindorf Castle (Мeйендорф or Мeйндорф) 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 [ru],[a] (a cadet line of the Baltic German noble house of Uexküll).

[7] In 1908, under the Russian ambassador to Denmark, Baron Karl Karlovich Buksgevden [ru], Baron F. M. Meyendorf became a diplomat with rank as a Russia state advisor (equivalent to a colonel) and became the first secretary of the Russian diplomatic mission to Denmark which was a very esteemed honor because Tsar Nicholas II's mother, the Tsarina Maria Fyodorovna, was born a Danish Princess Dagmar of Denmark.

[8] There is also a World War II cemetery marked by Yevgeny Vuchetich's miniature copy of his Mamayev Monument.

[2][5] At only 20 minutes from Moscow, his staff transferred ownership of Bavikha to the Office of the President of the Russian Federation [ru] as the residence of the President and remodeled the 1,300 square metres (14,000 sq ft) manor to the grandest in Russia when it opened for use in November 2008.

[6] It was there that the Meyendorff Declaration of 2008 was signed by the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan in a bid to end the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.