Anichkov Palace

Anichkov Palace is a previous magnificent royal residence in Saint Petersburg, at the convergence of Nevsky Avenue and the Fontanka. The royal residence, arranged on the plot once in the past possessed by Antonio de Vieira, takes its name from the adjacent Anichkov Bridge over the Fontanka. Intended for the Empress Elizabeth of Russia in an astonishing Baroque style, the royal residence came to be known as the most forcing private living arrangement of the Elizabethan period. Some propose modelers Bartolomeo Rastrelli and Mikhail Zemtsov were in charge of the plan, however, it's yet to be substantiated.

The fundamental facing faces the waterway and was initially associated with it by a Canal. Construction works proceeded for a long time and when at long last completed in 1754, the royal residence was displayed by the Empress to her most loved and likely life partner, Count Aleksey Razumovsky. After his demise, the castle returned to the crown, just to be given by Catherine the Great of Russia to her own top pick, Prince Potemkin, in 1776. The engineer Ivan Starov was accused of broad remodels of the royal residence in the recently elegant neoclassical style, which was affected in 1778 and 1779.

At the same time, a standard stop was spread out by an English garden modeler, William Hould. Upon Potemkin's destruction, the castle was re-established to the crown and adjusted to oblige her Imperial Majesty's Cabinet. The last major auxiliary augmentations were made in the rule of Alexander I, with Quarenghi's development of the Imperial Cabinet along Nevsky Avenue.

The last structure was figured in a thorough neoclassical style and numerous individuals feel that it doesn't supplement Rastrelli's unique work. Multi-year later, Alexander I offered the castle on his sister, Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna of Russia – she was later the Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin by marriage. A few modelers dealt with the structure from that point forward, and its insides were consistently renovated.