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The Moika Palace or Yusupov Palace was previously the main living place in St. Petersburg, Russia of the House of Yusupov. The building was the site of Grigori Rasputin's murder in the early morning of December 17, 1916. The royal residence was first worked around 1776 by the French designer Jean-Baptiste Vallin de la Mothe. Throughout the year's ious engineers took a shot at the royal residence including the renowned Italian artist Emilio Sala, creating an assortment of design styles. Andrei Mikhailov recreated the working amid the 1830s when the Yusupovs moved toward becoming proprietors of the building. This was the period that the royal residence accomplished its present-day appearance. From 1830 to 1917, the castle had a place with the House of Yusupov, a massively wealthy group of Russian nobles, known for their charity and workmanship accumulations.

Along these lines in the season of Imperial Russia, the castle wound up known as the Yusupov Palace. The lavish insides of the royal residence were not sub-par compared to those of contemporary regal palaces. More than 40,000 centerpieces, including works by Rembrandt, gems, and figures finished the palace. Following the Russian Revolution, the Yusupov craftsmanship accumulations were nationalized and migrated in the Hermitage and different galleries. Ernst Friedrich von Liphart, who was the guardian of works of art at the Hermitage, had prior painted the drape and roof of the royal residence theatre.

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