Count Nikolai Sheremetev knew how to have fun, no worse than French King Louis XIV. For the guests of his summer house he built aviaries with rare birds, orangeries with exotic fruits, and of course, ...

Pyotr Sheremetev for many years headed the Rachmaninoff Russian Conservatory in Paris and "made a major personal contribution to developing and bolstering cultural cooperation between Russia and ...

Count Nikolai Sheremetev, son of Count Dmitry Sheremetev (1803-1871), from his marriage to the maid of honor Anna Sheremeteva (1810-1849), who died at the age of five, left a deep trace in the Count's ...

During his army service, he was unable to see that his captain was hiring his troops out on the side to build apartment blocks. Working as a nurse, he refused bribes offered by relatives to give ...