Menshikov Palace (Saint Petersburg)

The Menshikov Palace (Russian: Меншиковский дворец) is a Petrine Baroque edifice in Saint Petersburg, situated on Universitetskaya Embankment of the Bolshaya Neva on Vasilyevsky Island. Since 1981, it has served as a public museum, a branch of the Hermitage Museum.

The palace was founded in 1710 as a residence of Saint Petersburg Governor General Alexander Menshikov and built by Italian architects Giovanni Maria Fontana, and, later, German architect Gottfried Johann Schädel. It was opened in 1711 (1711), but the construction continued until 1727 (assisted by Domenico Trezzini, Bartolomeo Rastrelli, Georg Johann Mattarnovy and Jean-Baptiste Le Blond), when Menshikov with his family was exiled to Siberia and his property was confiscated.

In 1731, the First Cadet Corps were established and occupied the palace and neighboring buildings. At the end of the 19th century the Menshikov Palace was restored and became the museum of the Corps. From June to July 1917, the First All-Russian Congress of Soviets of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies was held in the building. In 1924, its collections were moved to the Hermitage and other museums. From 1956 to 1981, the Menshikov Palace was restored again and finally opened to the public as a branch of the Hermitage Museum with a collection of Russian art of the late 17th-early 18th century.

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Menshikov Palace (Saint Petersburg)は、アトラスの城の知名度ランキングで世界1,237位（全3,734件中）、ロシアの67件では39位にランクされています。1710年に創建され、アトラスの年代判明済みの城の23%より古い城です（18世紀に創建されたアトラス収録の272件のひとつ）。ロシアが他とどう比べられるかは、城の統計をご覧ください。

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