Vladimir Palace
The Vladimir Palace ( Russian Владимирский дворец ) was one of the last imperial buildings erected in Saint Petersburg . It was designed in 1867–1872 by a group of three architects for a son of Alexander II , Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich .
As with the Winter Palace , the Hermitage and the Marble Palace , the back of the Vladimir Palace also faces the Neva . This location was very popular in aristocratic circles. The rustifizierte facade is based on that of Filippo Brunelleschi designed and Bartolomeo Ammannati extended Palazzo Pitti in Florence . The main portal is made of Obernkirchen sandstone ("Bremer Stein") and is decorated with griffins , coats of arms and cast iron lanterns.
Of the 360 rooms that make up the palace and its outbuildings, the representative rooms are decorated in all kinds of different styles: the reception hall and salon, for example, in the neo-renaissance , the dining room in the neo-Gothic , the oak room in the Russian style , the white room in the rococo and the Byzantine style study .
In addition, you will find rooms in the Louis XIV style, as well as various rooms furnished in an East Asian style. The mix of styles was expanded by Maximilian Messmacher from 1880–1892 and thus represents a kind of monument to the preferred style of the 19th century, historicism .
Today the Vladimir Palace belongs to the Russian Academy of Sciences as the House of Scholars (Russian Дом учёных ) and is used, among other things, for international conferences and seminars.
Web links
- Article about the Vladimir Palace in the Petersburg Lexicon spbin.ru (Russian)
- Brief description on the website of the A&B Travel Club (Russian) ( Memento from January 10, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
Coordinates: 59 ° 56 ′ 35.9 ″ N , 30 ° 19 ′ 11.2 ″ E