The Premier Site for Russian Culture
Russia St Petersburg Architecture Mansion Mansion of Nikolai Chicherin
Mansion of Nikolai Chicherin
Built possibly by Savva Chevakinsky (1768–71) on the site of the temporary wooden Winter Palace of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna designed by Bartolomeo Francesco Rastrelli (1755). The plot of land was presented by Catherine the Great to Nikolai Chicherin, the head of police in St Petersburg. Three-storey wing facing the River Moika was added (1794). Vasily Stasov added a wing on Bolshaya Morskaya Street (1814–17). Home to the St Petersburg Noble Assembly (from 1845). Acquired by the Yeliseyev merchants and reconstructed (1858).
Random articles
Artist. Born in the family of Pavel Spindler in Karakol on Lake Ysyk-Köl in Kyrgyzstan (1931). Move...
Diplomat, writer, literary historian. Son of Prince Pyotr Vyazemsky. Born in Warsaw (1820). Chairma...
The Museum of Old Petersburg was an example of the attempts of the World of Art to resurrect the fo...
Painter, object artist. Born in the city of Lviv in western Ukraine (1957). Graduated from the 1905...
Amin Shapoori is a painter and graphic artist from Iran. He was born in the city of Qazvin in north...