Tauride palace

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Benjamin Petersen: View of the Tauride Garden in St. Petersburg . 1797

The Tauride Palace ( Russian Таври́ческий дворе́ц / Tawritscheski dworez) is a palace in the second largest Russian city ​​of Saint Petersburg .

history

The palace was built by Ivan Starow 1783–1789 on behalf of Catherine the Great . She gave it to her lover Grigori Potjomkin , nickname Tawritscheski (= "The Taurier ").

Katharina's son Paul I bought it after Potjomkin's death and converted it into a barracks for the Guard Cavalry Regiment. Her grandson Alexander I had it restored as a residence under Luigi Rusca .

After the February Revolution of 1917 , the palace became the seat of the State Duma under the Kerensky Provisional Government . This is where the workers 'and soldiers' deputies of the Petrograd Soviet met on March 12th . The palace was depicted on the republic's banknotes , the "Kerensky". The 1st Congress of the Soviets of Workers 'and Soldiers' Councils took place in the building from June 3 to 24, 1917. After the Juliet Uprising , the Bolshevik Party, along with the Left Social Revolutionaries, dominated the Petrograd Soviet. In August 1917 the meetings of the deputies were moved to the nearby Smolny Institute .

After the October Revolution , the Tauride Palace served as the meeting place for the Russian constituent assembly, which was dissolved by the Red Guards . In May 1918, the Bolshevik Party, the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Russia (Bolsheviks) , held its 7th Congress here, at which it renamed itself the Communist Party of Russia .

Until 1990 the palace was the higher party school of the CPSU of Leningrad. Today it is a government building at 47 Shpalernaya Street, which is used for congresses and exhibitions. The conference room has been used by the inter-parliamentary assembly of the Commonwealth of Independent States since 1990 .

building

Aerial view of the plant

The building is built in the classical style with a six-column portico on the central axis. Above is a rotunda with a flat dome. The side wings end with pavilions. A landscaped park with hills, ponds and streams belongs to the palace.

organ

The organ was built in 2011 by the organ builder Gerhard Grenzing (El Papiol, Spain). The instrument has 23 registers on two manuals and a pedal. The actions are mechanical.

I Grand'Orgue C-a 3
1. Bourdon 16 ′
2. Montre 8th'
3. Flûte à cheminée 8th'
4th Prestant 4 ′
5. Flûte ouverte 4 ′
6th Fourth 2 ′
7th Cornet V
8th. Plein-Jeu IV
9. Trumpets 8th'
Tremblant
II positive C – a 3
10. Bourdon 8th'
11. Salicional (partly from No. 10) 8th'
12. Prestant 4 ′
13. Flûte Douce 4 ′
14th Nazard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
15th Duplicate 2 ′
16. Tierce 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
17th Larigot 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
18th Cromorne 8th'
Tremblant
II Pedals C – f 1
19th Soubasse 16 ′
20th Flute 8th'
21st Flute 4 ′
22nd Basson (partly from No. 23) 16 ′
23. Trumpets 8th'

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ More information on the organ ( Memento of the original from November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Russian; PDF; 1.4 MB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.grenzing.com

Web links

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Coordinates: 59 ° 56 '52.8 "  N , 30 ° 22' 33.6"  E