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The Mariinsky Palace was built between 1839 and 1844 by Heinrich Stackenschneider for the eldest daughter of Tsar Nicholas I , Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna, who later became president of the Imperi...
Catherine the Great commissioned the Marble Palace for her lover Count Grigory Orlov. Besides heading the artillery department and holding the post of grand master of the ordnance, Count Orlov had be...
Two-storey stone palace facing the River Fontanka. Built by Nicola Michetti (1721–23). Reconstructed by Mikhail Zemtsov for Count Ernst Johann von Biron (1726–28). After Biron was arrested and exiled...
Reconstructed from an eighteenth-century estate by Fyodor Demertsov for Princess Anna Beloselskaya-Belozerskaya on the corner of 41 Nevsky Prospekt and 42 River Fontanka Embankment in St Petersburg (...
Peter the Great awarded the land around the Admiralty to naval officers, pilots and shipbuilders. Fyodor Vasilyev built one of the largest and most beautiful palaces in the town after a design by Jea...
Built on the site of the Preobrazhensky Regimental Courtyard near the Anichkov Bridge designed by Mikhail Zemtsov and continued by Grigory Dmitriyev and Bartolomeo Francesco Rastrelli (1741–54). A ca...