Ropsha Palace
The Ropscha Palace is a former Romanov country residence southwest of Saint Petersburg .
During the reign of Peter the Great there was a wooden structure in this area. Around 1750, under Empress Elisabeth, work began on building a building complex under the direction of Bartolomeo Rastrelli . The successor to Peter III. was overthrown and died in unknown circumstances on Ropscha. After the handover to Grigory Orlov , the property was abandoned. After a change of hands in 1785, a garden was laid out. From the five-year reign of Paul the First , the palace was again a property of the ruler. Many parts of the garden were also restored in the 19th century. In 1825 the new Emperor Nicholas I transferred the property to his Empress Alexandra . The later Emperor Nicholas II stayed here to hunt .
After the October Revolution , the property was used for various purposes, including animal breeding. During the Second World War , the palace served the German troops as a hospital during the Leningrad blockade . After the war, the property was restored despite the damage caused by the withdrawing German troops.
Its use was abandoned in the 1970s and it was not until the 1980s that it began to fall into ruin. Bridges and hydraulic structures in the garden are probably completely lost.
- Stages of disintegration 1974 to 2015
Condition 1974 with a reasonably intact roof
State 2012
Ruin 2014
Collapsed pillars 2015
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rosneft rebuilds former Romanov residence , Russia Beyond the Headlines, October 28, 2016
- ↑ Ропша в XIX веке , ropshapalace.info
- ↑ Бывшая резиденция Романовых: что известно о дворце, который хочет арендовать Роснефть , TASS, October 25, 2016
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Coordinates: 59 ° 43 ′ 25 ″ N , 29 ° 51 ′ 37 ″ E