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Mikhailovsky Palace
Mikhailovsky Palace
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Mikhailovsky Palace (2/4 Inzhenernaya Street), an architectural monument of high classicism. It was constructed from 1819-1825 for the wedding of Grand Prince Mikhail Pavlovich and Grand Princess Elena Pavlovna (architect K.I. Rossi) and dominates the Iskusstv Square ensemble. The monumental building, decorated along the main facade with a Corinthian portico with a three-angled pediment and relief frieze (sculptor V. I. Demut-Malinovsky), is located in the far end of the front yard. The embrasures of the first rusticated floor were decorated with mascarons; the side outbuildings were connected with a cast-iron fence, pylons of the gate were crowned with arms. Bronze lions stand on the wide front staircase. The garden facade is decorated with a loggia-colonnade. The interior decor was worked out by sculptors S. S. Pimenov and V. I. Demut-Malinovsky, painters G and P. Skotti, A. Vigi, B. Medici and others. Only the two-coloured gala entrance hall with the staircase, the white-columned hall and some rooms on the first floor have retained the original decor. After the death of Grand Prince Mikhail Pavlovich the place was owned by Grand Princess Elena Pavlovna, whose salon was attended by many outstanding figures of Russian culture, then the palace passed on to their daughter - Grand Princess Ekaterina Mikhailovna (1827-94), her married name was Countess Mecklenburg-Strelitzkaya. In that period some apartments of the palace were designed by the architect G.A. Bosse. In 1894, Mikhailovsky Palace was bought by the state treasury; and after reconstruction 1895-1898 (architect V. F. Svinyin) it housed the Imperial Museum of Russian Art named after Alexander III (nowadays the State Russian Museum). In 1941-1944, the building suffered damage, but by 1946 had been restored. In 2001-2002, the decor of the palace church was recreated. The Mikhailovsky Palace gave name to Mikhailovskaya Street, a theatre, a manege and a garden. Reference: see Russian Museum. S. V. Boglachev.
Persons
Alexander III, Emperor
Bosse G.A. (see Bosse Yu.A.)
Demut-Malinovsky Vasily Ivanovich
Ekaterina Mikhailovna, Grand Princess
Elena Pavlovna, Grand Princess
Medici Barnaba (Varnava Iosifovich)
Mikhail Pavlovich, Grand Prince
Pimenov Stepan Stepanovich
Rossi Carl Ivanovich (Carlo Giovanni)
Scotti Giovanni Batista (Ivan Karlovich)
Scotti Pietro
Svinyin Vasily Fedorovich
Vigi Antoniо
Addresses
Inzhenernaya Street/Saint Petersburg, city, house 4/2
Iskusstv Square/Saint Petersburg, city
Mikhailovskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city
Bibliographies
Калязина Н. В., Калязин Е. А. Дворец Меншикова в Санкт-Петербурге: История, реставрация, музей. СПб., 1996
The subject Index
Russian Museum, State
Manege
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1819
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Demut-Malinovsky V.I., (1779-1846), sculptor
DEMUT-MALINOVSKY Vasily Ivanovich (1779 - 1846, St. Petersburg), sculptor. Studied at the Academy of Arts (1785-1800) under M.I. Kozlovsky, and received a retainer from the Academy of Arts to study in Rome (1803-06)
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Elena Pavlovna (1806/1807-1873), Grand Princess
ELENA PAVLOVNA (nee Frederica Charlotte Maria Princess of Wurttemberg) (1806-1873, St. Petersburg), Grand Princess, wife of Grand Prince Mikhail Pavlovich (from 1823)
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First of March, 1881
FIRST OF MARCH 1881, the day Emperor Alexander II was assassinated, prepared and accomplished by the party People's Will. The plan included exploding the Emperor's carriage on its way to the Mikhailovsky Manege
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Gornostaev A.M. (1808-1862), architect.
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Grand Princes' Palaces and Mansions (entry)
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Inzhenernaya Street
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Iskusstv Square
ISKUSSTV SQUARE, situated between Inzhenernaya Street and Italyanskaya Street. Known as Mikhaylovskaya Square from 1834 to 1918, then called Lassalya Square until 1940, in memory of German socialist F. Lassal (1825-64)
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Mikhail Pavlovich, Grand Prince (1798-1849)
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Mikhailovsky Garden
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Mikhaylovskaya Street
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Rossi C.I. (1775-1849), architect
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Russian Ethnographical Museum
RUSSIAN ETHNOGRAPHICAL MUSEUM, at 4а Inzhenernaya Street, was established in 1902 as the Ethnographical Department of the Russian Museum. The museum was opened in 1923. It became independent in 1934 as the State Museum of Ethnography
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Russian Museum, State
RUSSIAN MUSEUM, State was founded on 13 April 1895 by the decree of Emperor Nicholas II as the Russian Museum of Emperor Alexander III with the purpose of gathering the collections of Russian art
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Scotti D.B., (1776 -1830), artist
SCOTTI Giovanni Batista (Ivan Karlovich) (1776-1830, St. Petersburg), master of monumental decorative Classical painting. Studied under his father, Karl Scotti, a native of northern Italy, with whom he worked from 1786 until the 19th century
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