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During the time of Zubov the palace was refurnished, however the building itself remained
untouched, only entrance porticos were added to the central building and several fireplaces were
built inside. The palace was demolished in 1812 during the Franco-Russian War – mirrors were
smashed, silk wallpaper was torn down, the library given as a present from Catherine II was
destroyed.

Prince Platon Zubov died in undāle Palace on 7 April 1822. His widow married Count Andrey
Shuvalov, and undāle Manor belonged to this family until the agrarian reform of the epublic of
Latvia in 1920. The Shuvalovs rarely stayed in the palace, excluding the time period from 1864 to
1866 when Count Pyotr Shuvalov was the governor-general of the Baltic region and used undāle
Palace as his official summer residence.