Artist/Designer: Giacomo Quarenghi
Project Location: Saint Petersburg, Russia
Style/Period(s):
Neoclassical
Primary Material(s):
Textile, Plaster
Function(s):
Government, Residential Structure
Related Website(s):
Significant Date(s):
18th Century
Additional Information:
Publication/Texts in Print
Haywood, Richard M. "The Winter Palace in St. Petersburg: Destruction by Fire and Reconstruction, December 1837 - March 1839." Jahrbücher Für Geschichte Osteuropas, Neue Folge, 27, no. 2 (1979): 161-80.
Semyonova, Tatyana. "The Decoration of the New Hermitage: Nicholas I's Public Museum." The British Art Journal 2, no. 2 (2000): 127-34.
Ducamp, Emmanuel, M. F. Korshunova, Tatianna Borisovna Bushmina. The Winter Palace, Saint Petersburg. Paris: Alain de Gourcuff, 1995.
Building Address
38 Palace Embankment, Dvortsovy Municipal Okrug, Central District, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Supporting Designers/Staff:
Giacomo Quarenghi (Original interior design and architect of
Significant Dates:
Original interior by Giacomo Quarenghi created between 1787 and 1795
Fire destroyed interior in 1837
Vasily Stasov begins work on repairing and overhauling interior in 1837
Associated Projects
The Hermitage Museum,
Tags
Russia, The Winter Palace, Throne Room, Apollo, Great Fire of 1837, The Hermitage Museum, Nicholas II, Nicholas I
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