Mariinsky Palace
The Marienpalast ( Russian Мариинский дворец ) is a palace on Isaac's Square in Saint Petersburg . Together with the Winter Palace and the Tauride Palace , it is one of the three “political” palaces of Saint Petersburg and played an important role in the events of 1917 and 1991.
The classicist palace was built between 1839 and 1844 according to a project by the architect Andrei Stackenschneider . It is located on the southern side of Isaac's Square directly on the Moika . Before its construction there was another palace from 1768, which belonged to Field Marshal General Ivan Chernyshov . In the years 1825 to 1839 the previous palace housed a cavalry military school, at which Mikhail Lermontov also studied.
After 1845 the palace became an official residence of the Russian Dukes von Leuchtenberg and was named in honor of the daughter of Emperor Nicholas I , Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna . In 1884 the Marienpalast was bought by the state. In the period that followed, it housed the State Council of the Russian Empire and the Council of Ministers.
After the February Revolution , the Provisional Government worked here until June 1917 . After the Bolsheviks came to power , the palace housed the People's Commissariat for Property and the Supreme Economic Council . Following the relocation of the capital to Moscow , Red Army barracks were set up here and other institutions were quartered.
The Leningrad Soviet worked here from 1945 to 1991. During the August coup in Moscow , the supporters of the coup holed up here, while the citizens built barricades around the palace. Today the Mariinsky Palace serves as the seat of the Legislative Assembly of Saint Petersburg.
See also
- Marie Palace (Marijinskyj Palace) in Kiev
Web links
literature
- З. И. Белякова: Мариинский дворец (Серия: Дворцы и особняки Санкт-Петербурга ). - СПб: Белое и черное, 1996
- Г. Ф. Петров: Дворец у Синего моста: Мариинский дворец в Санкт-Петербурге . - СПб .: Logos, 2007. ISBN 978-5-87288-358-6
Coordinates: 59 ° 55 ′ 51 ″ N , 30 ° 18 ′ 34 ″ E