Sheremetev Palace
The Sheremetev Palace or Sheremetev Palace ( Russian Шереметевский дворец ) is a palace in Saint Petersburg ( Russia ). The palace is also known as the "fountain house" ( Russian Фонтанный дом ) because it used to have numerous fountains.
history
For his services in the Northern War , Peter the Great gave Field Marshal Boris Petrovich Sheremetev a piece of land on the Fontanka River in 1712 , after which Shermetev had a number of wooden houses built.
In place of these buildings, his son Pyotr Borisovich Sheremetev built a one-story palace in the 1740s based on designs by Sawa Tschewakinsky, a student of Rastrelli , and later added a second floor. The palace also housed a theater and hospital in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The north wing was built in 1867 based on a design by Nicholas Benois . Until 1917 the palace was owned by five generations of the Sheremetev family.
After the revolution , a museum was opened in the house, which showed private art objects of the Sheremetews from the 18th to 20th centuries. Until 1931 it was part of the Historical Department of the Russian Museum . The important Russian poet Anna Akhmatova lived in part of the palace until 1954 . Today the Anna Akhmatova Museum is located in a side wing of the building complex.
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Coordinates: 59 ° 56 ′ 7 ″ N , 30 ° 20 ′ 44 ″ E
Individual evidence
- ^ Edda Neumann-Adrian, Michael Neumann-Adrian: ADAC travel guide Plus St. Petersburg . ADAC-Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-89905-554-2 ( google.de [accessed on January 4, 2020]).
- ↑ Elena Kuzʹmina: Anna Akhmatova: a life in the homeless . Rowohlt Berlin-Verlag, 1993, ISBN 978-3-87134-058-1 ( google.de [accessed January 4, 2020]).
- ↑ Christine Hamel: Russia: from the Volga to the Neva: Moscow and Golden Ring, St. Petersburg and Karelia, Novgorod, Pskow and Kazan . DuMont Reiseverlag, 1998, ISBN 978-3-7701-4300-9 ( google.de [accessed January 4, 2020]).