Yelagin Palace (Елагин дворец; also Yelaginsky or Yelaginoostrovsky Dvorets) is a Palladian villa on Yelagin Island in Saint Petersburg, which served as a royal summer palace during the reign of Alexander I. The villa was designed for Alexander's mother, Maria Fyodorovna, by the architect Carlo Rossi. It was constructed in 1822 on the site of an earlier mansion built during the rule of Catherine the Great. The house was destroyed during World War II but was rebuilt and currently houses a museum.[1]
The isle to the north of the imperial Russian capital owes its name to its former proprietor, Ivan Yelagin (1725–94), a close ally of Catherine II from her early days as Grand Duchess. The first villa on the site might have been designed by Giacomo Quarenghi.[2] Yelagin was fascinated with the idea of extracting gold from ordinary materials and retreated to the villa for his secretive research in alchemy. Count Cagliostro was summoned by Yelagin to help him in these activities, but fled the island after Yelagin's secretary had slapped him in the face.[3]
After the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna declared that she was too old to make daily trips to such distant residences as Pavlovsk Palace and Gatchina Palace, her son Alexander I bought the estate from Yelagin's heirs and asked Carlo Rossi to redesign the villa. Its lavish Neoclassical interiors were decorated by Giovanni Battista Scotti, Vasily Demuth-Malinovsky, and Stepan Pimenov.[4]
After Maria Feodorovna's death, the palace remained deserted for long periods of time. Nicholas II leased it to his prime ministers such as Sergei Witte, Pyotr Stolypin, and Ivan Goremykin. In June 1908 Stolypin lived in a wing of the Yelagin Palace;[5] in July 1914 also the Council of Ministers under Ivan Goremykin convened there.[6] The Bolsheviks turned the palace compound into "a museum to the old way of life". In the siege of Leningrad it was damaged by a shell and burnt to the ground.[4]
The house was rebuilt in the 1950s to serve as a resort for workers.[7] Since 1987 it has housed a collection of objets d'art from the 18th and 19th centuries, notably precious glassware. The entrance is guarded by two lion sculptures, inspired by the Medici lions in Florence.
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Ivan Perfilievich Yelagin (Russian: Иван Перфильевич Елагин; 1725–94) was a Russian Imperial historian, an amateur poet and translator who acted as unofficial...
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Thomas de Thomon (Spit of Vasilievsky Island) Carlo Rossi (YelaginPalace, Mikhailovsky Palace, Alexandrine Theatre, Senate and Synod Buildings, General...
her diary, and this was borne out. Xenia returned disheartened to the YelaginPalace. In February 1916, Xenia travelled to Kiev after an illness to see her...
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Asiatic Museum founded. 1819 – Saint Petersburg University formed. 1822 – YelaginPalace built. 1823 – Admiralty building rebuilt. 1824 - The Neva caused flooding...
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notably the Hermitage Museum, the Summer Palace, YelaginPalace, Saint Isaac's Cathedral, and Monplaisir Palace. He wrote a book on the subject entitled...
Leningrad Blockade. At the start of the movie one can see the original YelaginPalace ruined during bombing (it was later rebuilt). In the film Vasily Bulochkin...
Saint Petersburg St. Catherine's Church of the Ascension Convent, YelaginPalace, General Staff Building, façade of the Russian National Library, Alexandrinsky...
throughout the region, as well as in chapels at the Winter Palace and the YelaginPalace. He also did murals at private residences; notably at a mansion...
Loft" (Saint Petersburg) 1987 – Culture Hall of Tsuriupa (Leningrad); YelaginPalace on Pontonnaya Street (Leningrad); TV Centre (Leningrad) 1988 – On Pontonnaya...
he was involved in alterations and repairs at the YelaginPalace, Winter Palace, and Tauride Palace; among others. An iron gate at the Summer Garden was...
considerably, at which time it was dismantled and placed in storage at the YelaginPalace. During preparation for the celebrations of the 300th anniversary of...
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