Мраморный дворец, Санкт-Петербург / The Marble Palace, St. Petersburg: 1868-1914

Россия на дореволюционных фотографиях
Мраморный дворец
Миллионная улица, 5/1
Санкт-Петербург
1868-1914

Russia in pre-revolutionary photographs
The Marble Palace
Millionnaya Street, 5/1
St. Petersburg
1868-1914

Музыка
В.Беккер - вальс 'Лесная сказка'

Music:
W. Becker - waltz 'Forest tale'

The MarblePalace is one of the first Neoclassical palaces in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
The palace was built by Count Grigory Orlov, the favorite of Empress Catherine the Great and the most powerful Russian nobleman of the 1760s. Construction started in 1768 to designs by Antonio Rinaldi, who previously had helped decorate the grand palace at Caserta near Naples.
The palace takes its name from its opulent decoration in a wide variety of polychrome marbles.....