Summer Palace (Rastrelli)
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The Summer Palace (Russian: Ле́тний дворе́ц) is either of the two wooden Baroque palaces built by Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli on Tsaritsa's Meadow behind the Summer Garden in St. Petersburg. Neither building survives.
First Palace
It was in 1730 that Rastrelli designed the first wooden palace for
Empress Anna
. This was a one-storied structure, with 28 rooms, a spacious central hall, and a system of interior waterways.
After
Elizaveta Petrovna
ascended the Russian throne in 1741, she commissioned Rastrelli to demolish the palace of her predecessor and build a "Venetian-style" residence for herself.
Second Palace
The new Summer Palace, completed in 1744, was the chief residence of
Empress Elizabeth in the Russian capital. It was a large and imposing mauve-walled edifice with 160 gilded rooms, adjacent church and a fountain cascade. A Hermitage pavilion
and an opera house were added to the compound in the 1750s.
In 1762,
St. Michael's Castle
.
References
- Summer Palace in Encyclopaedia of St. Petersburg
- Каталог Франческо Бартоломео Растрелли. – СПб: Лицей, 2000.
- Шварц В.С. Архитектурный ансамбль Марсова поля. – Л: Искусство. Ленинградское отделение, 1989.
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