Anichkov Palace ( palace or Anichkin ) - one of the imperial palaces of St. Petersburg , the Anichkov Bridge on the Fontanka River (Nevsky Prospekt , 39). Its name from the palace was Anichkov bridge. The oldest surviving buildings on Nevsky Prospect.
was started in 1741 by decree of Empress Elizabeth , who had just ascended the throne as a result of another coup. Project raznoetazhnogo building in the form of an extended letter H was created by one of the first architects of the new capital of Michael Zemtsov . Completed the construction in the style of High Baroque already Rastrelli.
At the end of the XVIII century the palace was otkuplen the treasury, while it was in the Cabinet of His Imperial Majesty, to whom later on the embankment of Fontanka front of the palace was built by architect Quarenghi a separate building, which closed with an overview of the palace Anichkov bridge.Alexander I gave to his beloved sister, Grand Duchess Ekaterina Pavlovna as a dowry when she married Prince George of Oldenburg . In 1817 the palace rode Nicholas , the future Nicholas I.Under him the architect Rossi redesigned some interiors of the palace, and also included a palace with adjoining garden in the ensemble of the square Alexandrinsky Theatre (now the area Ostrowski) .
After the revolution, there existed a short time the town museum , and in 1925 it was closed and only in 1937 at the Palace opened the Pioneer Palace , now the Palace of Youth Creativity and Anichkov Lyceum . During the Great Patriotic War, October 1, 1941 at the Palace of Pioneers was open surgical hospital .He spent the entire first winter of the siege , taking a considerable number of wounded people. In the spring of 1942 the hospital was transferred from the Palace , and in May 1942, the Pioneer Palace was reopened to the blockade of children.
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