Stroganov Palace in St. Peters burg(Russia)
One of the brightest
representatives of Russian baroque is the Stroganov Palace. For several
centuries, Stroganov Palace belonged to a wealthy family Stroganoff, after
which, in fact, this attraction gets its name.
Rastrelli (Russian architect of Italian heritage) decided to merge into one house Stroganov Palace, and
today we can see a real masterpiece of architecture in the Russian baroque
style. It is worth noting that this stylistic direction also followed in the
development of most of the interiors of the palace, as well as the construction
of the Main Staircase.
At the turn of the XVIII and XIX century on the initiative of Andrei Voronikhin began large-scale
reconstruction of the palace. It affected not only the northwest corner of the
palace, but other body, where it was created many classic interiors. Finally,
in 1842, Peter Gardener was attached to the palace of the general stylistic
sound in "Rastrelli spirit."
As reported by the St
Petersburg historians, in the XIX century palace was a model of exquisite
taste, combining within its walls all the St Petersburg elite of the time.
Frequent guests Stroganov Palace were famous poets, writers, artists and
musicians.
In 1897, the masses were
presented impressive collections Stroganov family. As you know, Stroganov was a
great admirer of painting and part-time avid collector of paintings, whose
collection includes hundreds of masterpieces. His work was continued by Count
SG Stroganov, who was also involved in numismatics and collecting sasadinskogo silver.
In 1917 Stroganov Palace was
nationalized, resulting in the "People's House Museum." During the XX
century palace building was at the disposal of many tenants (companies'
Elektromortrest "," Era ", etc.).
From 1988 to the present day
attraction acts as a branch of the Russian Museum.
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