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N. P.Sheremetev has decided to legalise the relations from P.I.Kovalevoj. On a throne emperor Paul I has entered. The count wished to ask from the emperor of the permission to marriage. Paul I has set aside: from public service of many dignitaries close to Catherine II, among them there was ober-gofmarshal a court yard prince Feodor Balrjatinsky. Paul I was going to appoint owner Ostankina To its place. Sheremetev and Paul I together grew and were brought up, together participated in amateur theatricals at palace theatre. The passion to theatrical representations with tsesarevichem Paul was divided also by other grandees.

Sheremetev has invited Paul I to performance serf] theatre. Some of the court guessed, that at the count were! Any personal plans connected with this visiting, on kept mum.

N. P.Sheremetev has decided to put ' Samnitsky marriages ' - let Paul I will see game parashi. The count worried, afraid not to please the emperor. One of Paul's I instructors, professor Epinus, once spoke about the regal pupil: ' the Head at it clever, but is in it the machine which keeps on one thread... This thread Will tear, the machine will be started turning and here the end and to mind and mind '.

The Imperial train has gone from Moscow to manor SHeremetevyh. All way from the Krestovsky outpost to Ostankina has been shined by burning flanks with osmolennym peas. When the imperial carriage has passed about verst or more, trees were unexpectedly tumbled down and in the distance, in the end of a glade as if vision, there was an Ostankinsky palace shining by a fresh paint with pavilions and church - in a grove which separated road from a palace, trees have been filed.

The Palace resembled an antique temple. For designing its Sheremetev has invited known architects F.Kamporezi D.Kvarengi, E.Nazarov, V.Brenna, K.Blanka. Carrying out building serf architect Paul Argunov. Under its management serf carpenters, joiners, parketchiki, pozolotchiki, lepshchiki and painters worked. The palace the two-storeyed wooden has been plastered and made impression of a monumental stone construction.