Petrovsk Palace

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Petrovsk Palace in Moscow (2013)

The Petrowsk Palace ( Russian Петровский дворец Petrowski dworez ) in the Russian neo-Gothic style on the outskirts of Moscow served as the southernmost imperial travel or relay palace on the road to St. Petersburg (now Leningrad Prospect).

history

After the victorious Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774) , Catherine II ordered the construction of the palace on the road from St. Petersburg to Moscow in 1774 in order to be able to relax there before reaching the Kremlin . The architect Matwei Kazakow was commissioned with the construction, who carried out the construction 1776-1780 together with Vasily Baschenow on the site of the upper St. Peter monastery (named after the metropolitan Pyotr († 1326)) in Bely Gorod , from whom the Petrowka led to the Kremlin. Catherine did not visit the Petrovsk Palace until 1787. Paul I stayed here on the occasion of his enthronement in Moscow in 1797. All his successors also stopped here for their respective enthronement.

Petrovsk Palace after the fire in Moscow in 1812

During the war in 1812 , during the fire in Moscow, Napoleon stayed four days in the Petrovsk Palace, his hair being singed while looking at the flames. Pushkin dedicated a verse in Eugene Onegin to this event . After Napoleon's flight, the palace was ruined. The restoration work only began under Nicholas I and lasted more than 10 years with the architects Nikolai Shochin and Alexei Martynov . The Moscow Governor Alexander Baschilow was to create a park during the 1830s before Petrowsker Palais. Giuseppe Angelo Artari (from the Artari-Colombo family of artists in Arogno ) painted the round vault. Lermontow lived here temporarily.

Sleigh race in Petrovsk Park (unknown painter, 1830s)

During the enthronement of Nicholas II in 1896, Nicholas II received a delegation of Polish peasants and Warsaw nobles in the Petrovsk Palace . On the same day the people were to be given gifts on the Chodynka field opposite . There was a mass panic on the Chodynka field with 1389 dead.

In 1920 the Petrovsk Palace was opened by the Military Academy for Air Force Engineers “Prof. NJ Schukowski ” . During the German-Soviet war , the academy was evacuated to Sverdlovsk , while the Petrovsk Palace was used by the staff department of the long-distance air forces .

The Petrovsk Palace has been administered by the City of Moscow since 1997. In 1998, at the instigation of Yuri Luzhkov, restoration work began so that the Petrovsk Palace could be used as a guest house for the city of Moscow for foreign delegations and as a luxury hotel. The restored Petrovsk Palace was opened in 2009. In addition to the hotel, there is the Karamsin restaurant , a swimming pool, a sauna and a press center. The Moscow City Museum offers sightseeing tours. Organ and chamber music concerts as well as romances evenings are performed in the 150-seat domed hall .

In 2015, the Central Bank of the Russian Federation issued a 25 ruble silver coin for the Petrovsk Palace in its series on Russian Architectural Monuments .

Web links

Commons : Petrovsk Palace  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Петровский путевой дворец (accessed August 11, 2017).
  2. ↑ Петровский дворец в стиле де-люкс (accessed August 11, 2017).
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Le palais Petrovski à Moscou (accessed on August 11, 2017).
  4. ↑ Васькин А. А .: Москва 1812 года глазами русских и французов . Moscow 2012.
  5. ↑ Трагедия на Ходынском поле (accessed August 11, 2017).
  6. ↑ 1941 Разговор в новогоднюю ночь (accessed August 11, 2017).
  7. ↑ Петровский путевой дворец открылся в Москве после реконструкции (accessed August 11, 2017).
  8. ↑ Central Bank of the Russian Federation: Петровский путевой дворец, г. Москва (accessed August 11, 2017).

Coordinates: 55 ° 47 ′ 37 ″  N , 37 ° 33 ′ 9 ″  E