The palace takes its name from its opulent decoration in a wide variety of polychrome
Urals marble of capitals and festoons. Panels of veined bluish gray Urals marble separate the floors, while Tallinndolomite was employed for ornamental urns. In all, 32 disparate shades of marble were used to decorate the palace.[1]
The plan of the edifice is
facades, though strictly symmetrical, has a different design. One of the facades conceals a recessed courtyard, where an armored car employed by Lenin during the October Revolution used to be mounted on display between 1937 and 1992. Nowadays, the court is dominated by a sturdy equestrian statue of Alexander III of Russia, the most famous work of sculptor Paolo Troubetzkoy; formerly it graced a square before the Moscow Railway Station.Embankment façade of the Larger Marble Palace. For a night view see here
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Constantine Pavlovich and his heirs from the Konstantinovichi branch of the House of Romanov
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