Stable Museum

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STABLE MUSEUM (the Museum of Court Carriages). Founded in 1857, at the Court Department of Stables; opened in 1860. The two-story Stable Museum building (4 Konyushennaya Square), built in 1857-1860s (architect P.S. Sadovnikov, with the participation of P.P. Dutel, D.P. Sadovnikov, D.I. Jensen, and N.T. Chalikov) in the Elizabethan Baroque style. There was a cart repair shop with 15 carved oak gates on the ground floor, where Imperial family and retinue carriages were located. On the first floor were exhibited a unique collection of Emperors' carriages (including Emperor Alexander II's carriage, destroyed by a bomb explosion during the course of the assassination attempt on 1 March 1881), saddles, stuffed horses, and tapestries manufactured in Paris and St. Petersburg. In September 1917, several valuable exhibits were looted from the Stable Museum. After October 1917, it became a branch of the State Hermitage; in 1926, it was liquidated, and all remaining items from its collection were given to the Hermitage and Pushkin Palace-Museums.

References: Кириков Б. М. Улица Желябова (Большая Конюшенная). Л., 1990. С. 12-14.

A. D. Margolis. Alexander II, Emperor
Chalikov N.P.
Dutil Peter Avgustovich
Jensen David Ivanovich
Sadovnikov D.T.
Sadovnikov Peter Semenovich
Konyushennaya Square/Saint Petersburg, city, house 4
Кириков Б. М. Улица Желябова (Большая Конюшенная). Л., 1990 Hermitage
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