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Vorontsov Palace

🇷🇺 Russland

Vorontsov Palace in Russland
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🇷🇺 Russland
Typ
Schloss
Bekanntheit
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Koordinaten
59.93139°, 30.33194°
Offene Daten
Wikidata Q1963797

The Vorontsov Palace (Russian: Воронцо́вский дворе́ц, romanized: Vorontsóvskiy dvoréts) is a Baroque palace compound which occupies a large parcel of land located between Sadovaya Street and the Fontanka River in St. Petersburg, Russia.

The palace of 50 rooms was built at enormous expense by Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli for Count Mikhail Illarionovich Vorontsov, Empress Elizabeth's chancellor and maternal relative by marriage. The palace took eight years to build, starting in 1749. After his niece Elizaveta Vorontsova fell from grace, Vorontsov was effectively exiled from the court and sold his main residence to the crown.

Paul I of Russia gave the palace to the Knights Hospitaller, of which he was Grand Master. Another Italian architect working in Russia, Giacomo Quarenghi, was then asked to modernise the palace. In 1798–1800, Quarenghi added a Catholic chapel to serve exiled French aristocrats who resided in the Russian capital at the turn of the 19th century (see Russian tradition of the Knights Hospitaller for details).

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