Menshikov Palace

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Menshikov Palace

The Menshikov Palace is a Petrine Baroque

Petrine Baroque

Petrine Baroque is a name applied by art historians to a style of Baroque architecture and decoration favoured by Peter the Great and employed to design buildings in the newly-founded Russian capital, Saint Petersburg, under this monarch and his immediate successors....
edifice in Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg is a types of inhabited localities in Russia and a federal subjects of Russia of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea....
, situated on Universitetskaya Embankment

Universitetskaya Embankment

Universitetskaya Embankment is a 1.2 km long embankment on the right bank of the Bolshaya Neva, on Vasilievsky Island in Saint Petersburg, Russia....
of the Bolshaya Neva

Bolshaya Neva

Bolshaya Neva is the largest armlet of Neva river. It starts near the Vasilievsky Island's Strelka .The length of Bolshaya Neva is 3.5 km, the width is from 200 to 400 meters, depth up to 12.8 meters....
on Vasilyevsky Island. Since 1981, it has served as a public museum, a branch of the Hermitage Museum

Hermitage Museum

The State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia is one of the largest museums in the world, with 3 million works of art , and one of the oldest art gallery and museums of human history and culture in the world....
.

The palace was founded in 1710 as a residence of Saint Petersburg Governor General Alexander Menshikov and built by Italian architect Giovanni Mario Fontana and, later, German architect Gottfried Johann Schädel. It was opened in 1711, but the construction continued until 1727 (assisted by Domenico Trezzini

Domenico Trezzini

Domenico Trezzini was a Swiss-Italian architect who elaborated the Petrine Baroque style of Russian architecture.Domenico was born in Ticino, near Lugano, in the Italy-speaking Ticino ....
, Bartolomeo Rastrelli

Bartolomeo Rastrelli

Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli was a Russian architect of Italy origin. He developed an easily recognizable style of Late baroque architecture, both sumptuous and majestic....
, Georg Johann Mattarnovy

Georg Johann Mattarnovy

Georg Johann Mattarnovy . Died 2 November 1719, Saint Petersburg) was a German Baroque architecture architect and sculptor, notable for his work in Saint Petersburg, Russia....
and Jean-Baptiste Le Blond), when Menshikov with his family was exiled to Siberia and his property was confiscated.

In 1731, Cadet Corps

Cadet Corps (Russia)

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The Menshikov Palace is a Petrine Baroque

Petrine Baroque

Saint Petersburg

Universitetskaya Embankment

Universitetskaya Embankment is a 1.2 km long embankment on the right bank of the Bolshaya Neva, on Vasilievsky Island in Saint Petersburg, Russia....
of the Bolshaya Neva

Bolshaya Neva

Hermitage Museum

Domenico Trezzini

Bartolomeo Rastrelli

Georg Johann Mattarnovy

Cadet Corps (Russia)

The Cadet Corps is an admissions-based military middle school for young boys that was founded in the Russian Empire in the year 1732, soon becoming widespread throughout the country....
were established and occupied the palace and neighboring buildings. At the end of the 19th century the Menshikov Palace was restored and became the museum of the Corps. In 1924, its collections were moved to the Hermitage and other museums. From 1956-1981 the Menshikov Palace was restored again and finally opened to the public as a branch of the Hermitage Museum with a collection of Russian art of the late 17th-early 18th century.

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