Kamennoostrovsky Palace on the Malaya Nevka Embankment. Kamennoostrovsky Palace within the open city project

In 1765, Catherine II presented Kamenny Island to her son Pavel Petrovich. The construction of the Kamennoostrovsky Palace began in the spring of 1776 according to the project of an unknown author on the site of the wooden palace of A.P. Bestuzhev-Ryumin, the former owner of the island. The work was supervised by the architect Yu.M. Felten. In 1777, the work was interrupted due to floods, after which Felten was replaced by J. Quarenghi. The construction of the building was completed in 1780, and the interior decoration was carried out until 1782. But already on January 18, 1780, a magnificent reception was held in the palace greenhouse in honor of the Empress.

The palace is an outstanding monument of classicism and represents in its plan an extended letter "P" with a central building and wings (G. Quarenghi) placed at right angles to it. One of the facades of the palace, facing the front yard and the palace garden, is decorated with a 6-column portico with a pediment of the Tuscan order. A staircase made of Finnish granite leads to the main entrance. In the center of the facade overlooking the Neva, there is an 8-column portico, completed by an attic. In the central building of the palace there was an Avanzal, Big hall, Gallery, Marine Salon, Picture Hall and Cabinet. Living quarters were located in one wing, and the palace theater in the other.

In 1797, the palace began to prepare for the stay in it of the dethroned Polish king Stanislav-August Poniatowski. Architect V. Brenna. The Marine Salon was transformed into the Crimson Living Room, the Great Hall into the Mirror Room, frescoes with views of Rome, executed by V. Brenna himself, together with F. Labensky, based on Piranesi's engravings, appeared in the Avanzal.

After the accession to the throne of Alexander I in 1801, the palace became one of his favorite residences. In the initial period of the reign of Alexander Pavlovich, the "Secret Committee" gathered in the palace. Here on August 6, 1812, the emperor entrusted the command of the Russian army to M. Kutuzov. And here in 1825 he learned about the conspiracy of the Decembrists.

J. B. de la Travers. View of Kamenny Island from the Nevka side. 1786. State Hermitage

In 1808-1811, according to the project of the architect L. Rusk, the third floor was built over the second floor of the residential wing with the office of Alexander I, finished in 1824 according to the project of V.P. Stasov. At the same time, according to the project of Tom de Thomon, the garden master FF Limin made a redevelopment of the garden, turning the garden from a landscape to a regular one.

In the 1820s, many of the palace's premises were re-painted by the decorator J.-B. Scotty. In 1824-1828 the architect Z.F. Dildin rebuilds the theater wing.

After Alexander I, the palace was owned by the Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich and his wife Elena Pavlovna. In 1834-1836, A.S. Pushkin. A. Rubinstein lived here in 1852-1854. In 1845 the architect A.I. Stackenschneider attaches a closed terrace to the Neva facade of the palace, arranges the Music Salon instead of the Raspberry Drawing Room, and replaces the plumbing system of the palace.

The palace has preserved two ceremonial halls of Pavlovian time with frescoes depicting views of Rome according to Piranesi's engravings, private rooms of the grand ducal couple, two ceremonial living rooms of ser. 19th century

The Kamennostrovsky Palace is one of the palaces of St. Petersburg, a monument from the times of Catherine II, a suburban imperial residence. An architectural monument of classicism of federal significance. It is under the protection of UNESCO.

Location: Nab. Malaya Nevka, 1, Nab. Bolshaya Nevka, Kamennoostrovsky prospect, 77,

Grand Duke Pavel Petrovich

Yu.M. Felten.

In 1777, the work was interrupted due to floods, after which Felten was replaced J. Quarenghi... The construction of the building was completed in 1780, and the interior decoration was carried out until 1782. But already on January 18, 1780, a magnificent reception was held in the palace greenhouse in honor of the Empress.

J. Quarenghi

The compositional basis of the palace - a plan in the shape of a strongly stretched letter P, with side risalits, bounding the front yard - was given by the layout of the Bestuzhev's house. Related to this is the complexity of the plan, with a multitude of various passages and small rooms surrounding the ceremonial halls.

Exercishaus building at the Kamennoostrovsky Palace in St. Petersburg The so-called outbuilding at the greenhouse, This elegant Empire-style house was built in 1824 according to the project of L.I.

The palace is an outstanding monument of classicism and represents in its plan an extended letter "P" with a central building and wings (G. Quarenghi) placed at right angles to it. One of the facades of the palace, facing the front yard and the palace garden, is decorated with a 6-column portico with a pediment of the Tuscan order. A staircase made of Finnish granite leads to the main entrance. In the center of the facade overlooking the Neva, there is an 8-column portico, completed by an attic. The central building of the palace housed the Entrance Hall, the Great Hall, the Gallery, the Marine Salon, the Picture Hall and the Study. Living quarters were located in one wing, and the palace theater in the other.

In place of an open gallery of such halls, three were created - a central one with rounded corners (in documents it is called the Great Hall) and two semicircular halls on its sides. In front of the Great Hall there is an extensive entrance hall, the walls of which are decorated with monumental panels with views of the monuments ancient rome, made from Piranesi's engravings by the artist F. Danilov in the summer of 1782. In the left wing of the palace there is a living room, a dining room, two small offices with a library. In the right wing there was a theater with an entrance specially arranged from the street.

The premises on the second floor were intended for children's rooms and for the attendants of the courtyard of the grand ducal couple. Work on the interior decoration of the palace continued in the years 1780-1782. While Paul (widowed in 1776) was traveling in Europe with his new wife, led. book Maria Fedorovna

19th century chandelier restored for Kamennoostrovsky Palace

new stucco molding for the palace

old stucco on restoration

So, already in 1784, a "new change" took place in Paul's attitude to the decoration of the Kamennoostrovsky Palace. And it was connected with an invitation to work in the grand ducal residences - on Kamenny Island, in Pavlovsk and Gatchina - the artist and architect V. Brenna.

Vincenzo Brenna

He wrote about his works: "The same is on Kamenny Island - another country residence His Highness the Grand Duke, located a few versts from Petersburg, where they go in winter and where they give balls, - I built a theater, completely new in location and small, in the palace itself

It should only be noted that the palace theater, its architecture, stage arrangement, auditorium belong to Quarenghi. Brenne is only interior decoration.

In the late 1780s, the new palace in Pavlovsk became the favorite residence of Pavel and Maria Feodorovna. Soon after his coronation, in 1797, the palace began to prepare for the stay in it of the dethroned Polish king Stanislav-August Poniatowski. The architect V. Brenn was involved in the interior decoration. The Marine Salon was transformed into the Crimson Living Room, the Great Hall into the Mirror Room, frescoes with views of Rome, executed by V. Brenna himself, together with F. Labensky, based on Piranesi's engravings, appeared in the Avanzal.

Stanislav August Ponyatovsky

There is the following entry in Ponyatovsky's diary: " This same Brenna, whom we saw in Warsaw a few years ago, is currently the one whom the emperor uses mainly as an architect. He is in charge of everything that is done on the Stone Island. ".

Park of the Kamennoostrovsky Palace, autumn 2010, view from the water

It was at this time that a park composition with the Big and Small Canals, a triple linden alley in the central part and two "stars" of paths appeared on the island. The proximity of landscape-regular compositions of the Kamennoostrovsky and Pavlovsky parks is undoubted; there is reason to believe that the architect G.P. Pilnikov was their author.

The work of the restorers

In 1809-1811 under the guidance of an architect L. Ruska redevelopment of some premises of the western wing of the building was carried out with a change in their decoration.

The two-story or Oval hall is the central room of the palace. Its names reflect both its shape and the way it is illuminated by two rows of windows located one above the other. Bas-reliefs depicting female figures representing "Justice and Hope"

Alexander 1

Contemporary restoration

In the 1820s, many rooms of the Kamennoostrovsky Palace were painted again; the artist-decorator performed these works on updating the "picturesque plafonds and wallpaper" J.-B. Scotty... Murals on mythological themes in the living room, bedroom, valet and other premises, made in golden yellow tones, with flying female figures in fluttering robes, are excellent examples of Empire ceiling painting and are well preserved to this day.

Fireplace in the Baroque style in the Kamennoostrovsky Palace.

Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich, portrait of I. Kramskoy.

After Alexander I, the palace was owned by the Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich and his wife Elena Pavlovna. In 1834-1836, A.S. Pushkin. A. Rubinstein lived here in 1852-1854. In 1845 the architect A.I. Stackenschneider adds a closed terrace to the Neva facade of the palace, arranges the Music Salon instead of the Raspberry Drawing Room, and replaces the water supply system of the palace.

The daughter of Mikhail Pavlovich and Elena Pavlovna, Ekaterina Mikhailovna, marries the German Duke Georg Mecklenburg-Strelitzky, who served in the Russian service, with the rank of general, and the daughter of the latter, Elena Georgievna of Saxe-Altenburg, receives the Kamennostrovsky palace in her possession. She was gifted musically, became the last chairman of the Imperial Russian Musical Society and organized high-level musical evenings in the palace.

The final stage of the interior decoration of the Kamennoostrovsky Palace dates back to the 1830-1850s. At this time, the late classical murals of the Upper Vestibule on the second floor appeared (presumably, according to V. Stasov's sketches), as well as the sculptural decoration of the music salon - busts of composers, installed by order of the then owner of the palace. book Elena Pavlovna, a famous patron of the arts, patroness of musical art.

V. Stasov
Minor reconstructions and changes in the decoration of the palace, introduced during the 19th century, on the whole, however, did not affect the originality and completeness of its appearance. As an architectural work, the Kamennoostrovsky Palace belongs to Russian classicism.

The interiors of the palace. Photo of the early XX century. (from the book "Monuments of architecture and history of St. Petersburg. Petrogradskiy district")

With the appearance of this building, the Islands acquired a new architectural image; the palace on the arrow, opening from the side of the city, became the most important initial element of the architectural and park ensemble; new buildings on Kamenny and on the nearest islands were to correspond to it.

Sadovnikov V.S. View of the Kamennoostrovsky Palace.
It should also be borne in mind that its creation was undoubtedly influenced by the tastes, preferences, value orientations of the then owners - Paul I and Maria Feodorovna and masters who worked on their orders - architects, painters, park builders. Many of the architectural, picturesque, decorative solutions found at one time on Kamenny Island were then re-embodied in the residences of the same owners, and, above all, in Pavlovsk.

Main gate

The palace garden was an integral part of the ensemble on Kamenny Island. The first redevelopment of the regular garden of the mid-18th century took place in the late 1780s according to the project F. Violier, the court artist and architect led. book Pavel Petrovich and Maria Feodorovna, the author of "The Own Garden" at the Pavlovsk Palace. Violier introduces new elements into the historically established structure of the garden at the Kamennoostrovsky Palace: he gradually enlarges the squares of the garden on both sides of the central alley and makes a transition to the landscape layout of the squares farthest from the palace.

Reconstruction project

A lush flower parterre with oval and octahedral flower beds in the style of "Dutch gardens" was arranged near the palace. Further, the same elements are given on an enlarged scale, with the addition of acacia plantings along the edges of the parterres; in a remote area of the garden - vast lawns with picturesque groups of limes and maples; linden trees were planted on both sides of the central alley and along the border of the garden.

Sadovnikov V.S. View of the Elagin Palace from the side of the middle Nevka.

S. Shchedrin View of the Stone Island Palace

The severity and grace in the solution of the palace garden, the geometrism of its planning structure, allow us to attribute it, like the "Private Garden" in Pavlovsk, to the French-Dutch type, enriched with elements of landscape planning.

Laurie, Gabriel Ludwig the Elder, from the original by Benjamin Patersen. View of the Kamennoostrovsky Palace from the Aptekarsky Island in St. Petersburg

On the very promontory of the island, near the palace, a "small garden" was laid out, also according to Violier's drawing. Its measurement drawing, made by the architect G. Pilnikov on the eve of the alteration of the garden in 1810, has survived. The small turfed area included two star-shaped paths with floral borders; in the center of each star were flower beds.

Household gates

Probably, it was Violier who was the author of the first front gates of the Kamennoostrovsky Palace, installed on the side of the Malaya Nevka embankment, near the greenhouse. Made of Olonets marble, they have a semi-oval composition, a low base and consist of four links with Doric columns separating them.

The gates of the park of the Kamennoostrovsky Palace in St. Petersburg (from the side of the Malaya Nevka embankment

In the center there are two tetrahedral pylons with semi-columns crowned with balls. On the obverse of the pylons, medallions for the owners' monograms are carved. The links of the metal lattice are of a trellis pattern, in the upper and lower parts they are bounded by horizontal meander stripes. This pattern was repeated in two gates, completed with the owners' monogram inscribed in an oval.

Jean-Francois Thomas de Thomon is a French architect, draftsman, representative of mature classicism, who worked in Russia.

Further work on the improvement of the Kamennoostrovsky garden was associated with the activities of the architect Tom de Thomon, whose project and estimate for the "alteration of the palace garden" were approved on October 25, 1810. A significant place in these works, carried out under the guidance of the garden master F. Lyamin, was occupied by technical problems: filling up the settled places in the garden, the construction of a drainage and drainage system. In an artistic sense, Tomon developed the ideas laid down in F. Violier's project, enhancing the landscape character of the remote areas of the garden: they were cut by winding paths that were lost in dense plantings of perennial trees.

Malaya Nevka embankment in St. Petersburg, view from the Kamennoostrovsky palace towards the avenue

The Kamennoostrovsky palace garden, thus, combined the characteristic features of the regular gardening art of the 18th century with the geometric symmetry of the flower beds closest to the palace and the style of landscape park construction, the spread of which began already in the 1760s and which became dominant in the arrangement of gardens and parks at the end of the 18th century. the beginning of the 19th century, in the era of classicism architecture. On the whole, this is the only park-building work performed by the famous architect and occupies a very modest place in his work.

Autumn in the park

J. B. de la Travers. View of Kamenny Island from the Nevka side. 1786. State Hermitage

In addition, according to the project of L. Ruska, a pier with sphinxes was built at the Stroganov Bridge. Undoubtedly, when designing this complex of "architecture of small forms", the architect took into account its visual relationship with Count Stroganov's dacha on the Black River, on the opposite bank of the Bolshaya Nevka, built by A. Voronikhin in 1795; Voronikhinsky pier with sphinxes served as a prototype for the construction of Rusk, strengthening the ensemble correlation of the Stroganov dacha and the Kamennoostrovsky palace.

Middle alley. In the 18th century (it seems, under Bestuzhev-Riumin), there were two small canals on the sides of this alley .. .

The channels diverged in beams as they approached the bank of the Malaya Nevka. (Now only the diverging sandy paths remind of them.) The Hermitage pavilion stood on the small island formed.

Church of the Nativity of John the Baptist on Kamenny Island

Chapel in the name of the Icon of the Mother of God "The Tsaritsa", St. Petersburg. Architects V.S. Vasilkovsky and P.A. Areshev. 1953 - 1954, reconstruction by V.S. Vasilkovsky - 2002.

In the northern part of the palace area is the Church of St. John the Baptist. It was founded in 1776 in honor of the victory of the Russian fleet over the Turkish in the Battle of Chesme and completed with construction ( according to the project and under the direction of Y. Felten) in April 1778. Twenty years later, in 1798, when Paul I became the Grand Master of the Order of Malta, the church was turned into an Orthodox church of the Knights of Malta. Here the Russian knights of the order took the oath, their cemetery was arranged near the church. After the assassination of Paul I, the Order of Malta in Russia was abolished, the burials of the Maltese from Kamenny Island were transferred to Tsarskoe Selo.

The church has been preserved in its original form. It is a small brick building on a low stone plinth, cruciform in plan, built in the neo-Gothic style. The lancet windows, the bell-tower gabled tent, the closed vaults of the internal ceilings remind of the medieval temples of the West.

Along south coast Kamenny Island, along the Malaya Nevka embankment, limiting the economic part of the palace plot, in the second half of the 18th century there were wooden one-story greenhouses and greenhouses. Near them in the 1780s, a two-storey stone kitchen building was built with high semicircular windows on the first floor and small square ones on the second.

With the construction of these two coastal buildings, emphatically elongated, like the walls that delimited the palace site on the arrow, a new position of the Kamennoostrovsky palace in the composition of the park on Kamenny Island was determined. Two structures - the palace and the church - were on the same compositional axis, where the palace garden became the connecting link ... This ensemble, based on the contrasting sound of architectural images, is distinguished by a special emotional saturation due to its natural inclusion in the surrounding space. The side linden alleys of the garden were also continued and connected at the church site: with a smooth S-shaped line, they flowed around turfed lawns with picturesquely arranged groups of two or three maples, lonely oak trees, lilac bushes, acacia, turf, and old linden trees with powerful knotty trunks were left untouched near the church.

The architects of Russian classicism created the central buildings of the island ensemble. Not all of them have survived.

The magnificent buildings on the Islands have formed an exceptional landscape and architectural whole, amazing in its harmonious completeness, in unity with the green park space, the low island landscape and the transparent expanse of waters.

Dec 14. In 2015, a budgetary institution for additional out-of-school education, organized by the city authorities for schoolchildren, "St. Petersburg Academy of Talents," was presented. It was announced in March of the same year.

Now the palace has 24 rooms with equipment for teleconferencing, staging performances, classes in robotics, music, and costume modeling. Academy programs imply in-depth study of the humanities, technical and natural sciences and creative classes with vocational guidance practice. In total, the educational platform consists of 12 thematic zones.

So, in the zone of entertaining sciences, ecological excursions will be conducted and design and research activities will be arranged with the help of digital educational laboratories, says the Polymedia company, which was implementing the project. In the zone intellectual games children will be able to use the interactive complex of visualization tools for the games “What? Where? When? ”,“ Brain Ring ”and“ Clever and Clever Men ”.
There is a virtual fitting room in the "Museum" zone, where children can try on historical costumes, take pictures and get a snapshot. The coworking space has everything for creative teamwork.

There will also be a children's television studio at the academy, and interactive excursions will be conducted for students and their parents. The press service of the governor's administration notes that close cooperation with the Academy of Talents will be conducted with city schools according to the class-project system.

Governor Georgy Poltavchenko, at the opening of the palace, on his initiative, the palace was handed over to children.

Good hour, guys !!!

The corners of the landscape park, quiet alleys and main highways, the smooth surface of canals and mirrors of ponds - it is integral to St. Petersburg, this world of the Islands, fanned by the poetry of Pushkin and Blok ...

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http://www.polymedia.ru/o-kompanii/novosti/47271/

Portraits: Wikipedia

Vityazeva V.A. Palace on an island in the bend of the Neva // White nights. L., 1985
Vityazeva V.A.Kamenny Island. - L .: Lenizdat, 1991
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St. Petersburg, nab. Malaya Nevka, building 1
Kamennoostrovsky Palace.
"Academy of Talents", opened in December 2015
http://academtalant.ru/
Excursion 01/23/2016.
(in the photo is the monogram MR of one of the owners - the Grand Duke Mikhail Romanov).

The mysterious palace on the spit of Kamenny Island is not familiar to all townspeople, not to mention tourists. For many years, the palace and the park on the spit of Kamenny Island remained an inaccessible area and it was possible to observe the changes taking place only from the opposite shores.
Until 2007, a military sanatorium was located in the palace interiors. After the closure of the sanatorium, it was decided to turn the palace into the Kamennoostrovsk governor's residence. Serious restoration has begun. But a miracle happened - in 2014, Governor Georgy Poltavchenko decided to transfer this building to children and call this blessed place the Academy of Talents, which opened its doors at the end of 2015. I was lucky enough to get on practically the first tour of the halls of the palace.
I'll tell you everything in order.

History reference:
In 1765, Catherine II presented the Stone Island to her son Pavel Petrovich... The construction of the Kamennoostrovsky Palace began in the spring of 1776 according to the project of an unknown author. The work was supervised by the architect Yu.M. Felten. But at the same time, Catherine II gave Paul the land in Pavlovsk and Gatchina, and the residence on Kamenny Island was not an attractive place for Paul.
After accession to the throne Alexander I in 1801, the palace becomes one of his favorite residences. In the initial period of the reign of Alexander Pavlovich, the "Secret Committee" gathered in the palace. Here on August 6, 1812, the emperor entrusted the command of the Russian army to M. Kutuzov. And here in 1825 he learned about the conspiracy of the Decembrists. On September 1, 1825, he left Petersburg forever, death soon overtook him in Taganrog. The palace can be called the last Petersburg refuge of the emperor.
After Alexander I, the palace was owned by the Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich and his wife Elena Pavlovna.
Daughter of Mikhail Pavlovich and Elena Pavlovna Ekaterina Mikhailovna marries a general of the German duke Georg Mecklenburg-Strelitzky in the Russian service, and the daughter of the latter Elena Georgievna Saxe-Altenburgskaya receives the Kamennostrovsky Palace in possession until the revolution.

Entrance to the territory of the palace and park ensemble from the Malaya Nevka side, through the checkpoint (by appointment, by passport).
The palace is outstanding a monument of classicism and represents in the plan a stretched letter "P" with a central building and outbuildings.

Facade overlooking Malaya Nevka.

Detached on the banks of the Bolshaya Nevka. A gate without a fence :-)

Facade facing the park.

The central alley leading to the Front Gate and the Church of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist. There is a legend about underground passage between the palace and the church.

Entrance hall (1st floor)... Decorated with a panel by Fyodor Danilov after Pironesi's engravings "Views of Rome".

Marble sculptures.
"Nymph and Shepherd"

"Diana on the Lion"

2nd floor corridor.

In this room there are technical wonders - "talking screens" from which Catherine II and Alexander I tell their stories.

There is a wonderful exhibition in the hall - costumes of the movie "Matilda" transmitted by director Alexei Uchitel after filming. The film tells about the period of romantic love between Mali and Nika - the legendary ballerina Matilda Kshesinskaya and the future emperor Nikolay Romanov... The film will be released in the fall of 2016 (I have been waiting since 2014,

And even Matilda Feliksovna came to life and spoke

Hall with Florentine paintings.

Hall with "putti". On the ceiling are medallions with cute naked boys with wings. They say that in Soviet times, they were painted on panties and pioneer ties.

This medallion contains a "Soviet" ball - a putti toy.

A very frivolous nymph with a satyr hid behind the curtain.

In this room is holographic theater... It looks like this:

The most beautiful and solemn hall of the palace - dance hall with caryatids. The hall is designed for balls and concerts.

Music Salon... Founded salon Elena Pavlovna, wife of Mikhail Romanov, is a great admirer of art. Supervised the salon Anton Rubinstein, who even lived in the palace for some time. it was here that the idea of creating the Conservatory, the first higher musical institution in Russia, was born. He dedicated to Elena Pavlovna a cycle of 24 plays "Stone Island".

On the walls - marble sculptural portraits Mozart, Gluck, Beethoven, Palestrina. They say that the sculptor sculpted the head of one of the goddesses from the Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna.

Now in the hall, schoolchildren are playing the electronic version of "What, where, when?" Team tables, spinning top and questions on the screen. We played too :-)

Atrium with a white grand piano.

Now we have to wait for summer to appreciate the park in all its glory. According to the project, it should look like this:

In the meantime, around the snowy frosty kingdom. And only strange footprints across the Neva. Perhaps at night the ghost of Paul I crosses to the other side of the Lopukhins' estate to meet with his favorite Anna Petrovna Lopukhina.

P.S. Fifteen years ago I managed to visit the palace, which was then owned by the Ministry of Defense and there was a medical institution - the Air Force Military Sanatorium. I have saved a few pictures taken on a film camera. I post scans:

The sculptural groups were then located in the dance hall with the caryatids. Behind "Diana on the Lion" - exhibition boards dedicated to the history of the sanatorium.

And these paintings were filmed in the functional diagnostics room, in which all sorts of electropharesis and UHF were located. The entire space was divided into compartments by white sheets. But then for some reason I did not want to take pictures of these artifacts, I wanted to capture something beautiful, eternal. And even in delirium, the thought that the palace would be restored and given to young talents could not have occurred to me.

Visited 04.07.2017 Kamennoostrovsky Palace. To get there, you first need to register on the Open City website.

In addition, according to information received from the tour leader Ivan (who also works at the Academy), every Saturday the Academy of Talents is ready to acquaint the residents of the city with the palace.

Fearing to be late, I arrived an hour earlier, and was let through by the valiant security guards into the territory of the palace, which gave me the opportunity to walk in the park once, take a photo without two people and sit reading a book on the bank of the Bolshaya Nevka three, in silence and at the same time almost in the center of the city. This is the view of the palace from the side of the park.

Deserted alleys, lanterns all around, singing birds and lack of fuss, by the way the park has the conditional name "Quiet Rest", the rest there is really very quiet, the territory of the park is certainly not very large when compared with other park areas, but it is fenced off on both sides by river waters , on the third side, houses, so the usual city bustle remains far outside the park.

And here is the exit to the river, sitting on a bench, you can rest your body and soul, contemplating the waters of the river and feeling a light breeze

With such a facade, the palace looks at the city through the Bolshaya and Small Nevkas, since at this place they merge

But the time of the excursion approaches the beginning and onward to the palace,

A little historical background about the Kamennoostrovsky Palace: Catherine II gave the Kamenny Island to Paul and in 1776 the construction of the palace began under the leadership of Yu.M. Felten, work was interrupted due to floods, and then D. Quarenghi joined the project and in 1782 the palace was completely finished. The owners changed, they were Alexander I, the Lunacharsky Commune of Homeless and the sanatorium of the Leningrad Military District.

And the first hall that meets us is the Avanzal, then it served as a waiting room, the only moment the sculptures were supposed to be located on the street, but this marble is very sensitive to the St. Petersburg weather and for their preservation they are brought inside. By the way, the exit from the Avanzal is possible through the glass doors, we turn on the imagination and imagine how the carriages approached the palace, disembarked people and they climbed the stairs into the hall.

In 1797, the palace began to prepare for the stay of Stanislav Poniatovsky and the architect V. Brenn was involved in the interior decoration, due to which frescoes with views of Rome appeared in the Avanzal.

In this hall, the city's gold medalists were honored recently, and so far there are elements in the form of flags and flowers, camera installations.

For the sake of interest, I looked for old photos of the premises, the complexity of the restoration, as Ivan noted, was as follows, there were a lot of different layers and the difficulty was what to leave, what to clean. By the way, there were stoves in the basement that heated the room, and warm air came from the holes under the mirrors

But through the open doors we see the formerly known as the Raspberry Guest Room, and now the center of the games, it was in this living room that A.S. Pushkin liked to visit, as the guide noted, but the photo of the living room, as it looked earlier, was not found.

The sculptures of the composers, on the other hand, were preserved in the original, like the fireplace, but the question works or not, the guide found it difficult to answer, but I will pay attention to the interactive games that are now taking place here, the participants are divided into teams, and for example we start playing "Our game"

And in front of us on the scoreboard is the presenter's screen, which is useful, first of all, the presenter can always see the answer, the time is tracked, questions can be set for any class, there is a standard program, but it is quite possible to create your own, all button presses are accompanied by musical design as in ordinary programs , at present such games as "Own Game", "Brain Ring", "Clever and Clever Men", "What? Where? When?"

At exactly four o'clock they heard the melodic chime of the clock and at this they left the former Raspberry, Musical living room

We are very jealous of the children who now have the opportunity to play television games without leaving the city and go to the room in which there were previously theatrical performances, and now a holographic theater has been made.

A production about the creation of the palace and one of the legends about Peter I was shown in the theater, and we proceed further into the meeting room

In this room, as well as in others, I really want to note the ceiling paintings, which were restored almost from scratch, I found a photograph of the restoration, judge for yourself what painstaking work was carried out

Thanks to these masters, we can now see the beauty that was in the palace initially.

But let's move on, another hall into which we put our curious nose, this is another playroom, for example, we see a board where countries and flags are written, all objects move and it is enough to take a sign with your hand and lead it across the screen and it will move , and if the flag and the name of the country match correctly, they disappear from the screen, a very relevant game for kids especially, but not only for them.

It's time to get higher

And above we find ourselves in the secret office of Alexander I, it was here that he entrusted the command of the army to M.I. Ktutuzov, here I learned about the conspiracy of the Decembrists. During the Second World War and in the post-war years, the hospital / sanatorium and in this room there were medicinal baths, which caused very heavy damage to the frescoes

After the secret office, it's time to visit the museum, the museum presents various outfits that you can touch with your hands, try on hats, there are screens that turn on when you greet and tell different stories

In passing, we will take a look at what else the Academy of Talents offers to children, and a cinema studio where children can shoot their programs, films

In the blue hall, children are engaged in construction, in the photo near the stairs there is a crane that works when air is supplied

In conclusion, I would like to cite an article I found in the Internet edition of the Diary of St. Petersburg:

The decision to create the "Academy of Talents" in the Kamennoostrovsky Palace was made in the summer of 2014.

“When we made the decision to give the palace to you, we had no doubts. Now I see that we have made the right decision. There were skeptics who doubted whether it was worth giving such a beautiful palace to children, but we have an example of the Anichkov Palace, where the atmosphere itself disciplines. There are a lot of talented young people in our city, and I am sure that a happy fate awaits the Academy, ”said Georgy Poltavchenko at the opening ceremony.

The head of the city expressed the hope that the talent of young Petersburgers will be revealed here, and many will take their first step into their future life here.

According to legend, the ancient clock in the Kamennoostrovsky Palace, while it was empty, stopped. But when the Palace was in the hands of a new generation, the clock started again, thus marking the beginning of a new period in the life of the palace.

Georgy Poltavchenko thanked those who took part in the restoration of the palace: RK Intarsia LLC was the general contractor for the works in the palace.

Very modern technology and software created at our St. Petersburg enterprises: "Polymedia" and "Kronstadt".

In addition to conducting classes, the "Academy of Talents" will become the headquarters of the Council of High School Students and the Association of Class Teachers of St. Petersburg.

»This Academy will allow many children to determine their capabilities in order to make choices for the future. This is important in our modern world when you need to learn quickly enough ", - said Georgy Poltavchenko.

The “Academy of Talents” differs from the Anichkov Palace (City Palace of Youth Creativity), first of all, by its unconventional approach: instead of constantly operating circles, where children purposefully go for several years, the “Academy of Talents” will help everyone first try new classes and decide what is interesting to him ...

The easiest way to get into the "Academy of Talents" is through your school, which will be able to send interested students to the Palace. But both parents and children can independently obtain information on the website of the "Academy of Talents" or come in person.

On Saturdays, the “Meet the Palace” program is held at the “Academy of Talents” - an interactive excursion for children with their parents, during which you can get acquainted with the technosphere of the palace and find out what and how you can do here. Absolutely all classes at the Talent Academy are completely free. "

And finally, let's look into the music hall and go away, rejoicing at what the children now have. I think any parent will be interested in teaching a child or in the possibility of holding various events at the Academy of Talents.

According to our guide, the Academy is ready for cooperation and it is wiser to conclude a partnership agreement for the school, the agreement will make it possible to more effectively use the Academy's capabilities for its needs. Relationships are also possible outside the contract, but they will be only if the necessary rooms are free. On the this moment such agreements were concluded with 56 schools, more than 3500 children took part in 2016 in various programs.

And let me remind you that the Academy began to work on December 14, 2015, while a short period of time, of course, but how many interesting things the Kamennoostrovsky Palace now conceals.

The Kamennoostrovsky Palace is one of the former royal residences in St. Petersburg. Located on Kamenny Island. An architectural monument of the late 18th century. in the style of classicism.

In 1765, Empress Catherine II granted the entire Stone Island to her son, the future Emperor Paul I. On the site of the modern palace, there was already a wooden estate of Chancellor Alexei Petrovich Bestuzhev-Ryumin. A new one was erected in its place. stone palace in the period from 1776 to 1782 Authors of the project, architects: Yuri Matveyevich Felten, Giacomo Antonio Domenico Quarenghi. The palace interior was designed by the court architect of Paul I - Vincenzo Brenna.

In the period from 1776 to 1778. On the territory of the estate, the Church of the Nativity of John the Baptist was built - in a pseudo-Gothic style, according to the project of Yuri Matveyevich Felten. Subsequently, this temple belonged to the Order of Malta, the master of which was Paul I. This temple has survived to our times.

After Paul I, the palace became the favorite residence of his son, Alexander I. It was within the walls of this palace that the emperor entrusted the command of the army to Mikhail Kutuzov in the war of 1812. Here Alexander I learned about the Decembrist conspiracy in 1825.

At the beginning of the XIX century. the palace was built on a third floor by the architect Luigi Rusca. The interior was designed by the architect Vasily Petrovich Stasov. Also during this period, the garden was redesigned by the architect Jean-François Thomas de Thomon.

When the Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich owned the palace, the poet Alexander Pushkin was his guest (he visited here in 1834 and 1836).

The last owner of the palace was Duchess Helena Mecklenburg-Strelitzkaya, daughter of Grand Duchess Ekaterina Mikhailovna and Duke George-August of Mecklenburg-Strelitzky.

After the revolution of 1917, the building of the palace was nationalized, and a military sanatorium was located here.

In the 2000s. restoration was carried out.

It is planned that the building will house the children's social and educational organization "Academy of Talents of St. Petersburg".

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