We continue the journey through the outskirts of St. Petersburg, visiting one more of the islands of today's city and look at one more palace-residence of the royal persons. On the Stone Island of St. Petersburg there is a magnificent building of the epoch of architectural classicism - the Kamennoostrovsky Palace.
In the middle of the 18th century, at this place on Kamenny Island a wooden palace was built for the earl, Russian statesman, diplomat and chancellor of the Russian Empire under Elizaveta - Aleksey Petrovich Bestuzhev-Ryumin.
In 1765, Empress Catherine II bought the whole island and gave it to her son Pavel Petrovich (future Emperor Paul the First).
In 1776, instead of a wooden palace, the Kamennoostrovsky Palace was start of building. Construction works were supervised by the Russian architect Yuri Matveevich Felten.
In 1777, St. Petersburg suffered a catastrophic flood, during which the island was flooded. Temporarily had to stop work of building.
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Flood in St. Petersburg in 1777 Fantastic German engraving of the XIX century.
Further work on the construction of the palace was resumed, the Italian architect Giacomo Quarenghi was appointed to lead the works. The construction of the Kamennoostrovsky Palace was completed in 1780, although the interior decoration works were carried out until 1782.
One of the facades of the palace overlooking the front yard and the garden is decorated with a portico with six columns, to the entrance leads a ladder of Finnish granite. The facade of the Kamennoostrovsky Palace overlooking the Neva has a portico with eight columns and an attic above the cornice of the structure.
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Familial sign of Emperor Alexander the First at the gates of the Kamennoostrovsky palace.
In the period from 1808 to 1811, the third floor was erected on the second floor of the wing of the building by the Swiss architect Luigi Rusca, where the office of Alexander the First was arranged.
In 1824, according to the design of the French architect and decorator Tom de Thomon, the palace garden was reshaped, becoming landscape and regular as all the gardens of France of that time.
After the Emperor Alexander the First, the Kamennoostrovsky Palace was owned by his younger brother Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich, and later his daughter Ekaterina Mikhailovna and her descendants.
In 2008, the Kamennoostrovsky Palace was completely restored. Now in the building of the palace is the Academy of talents of St. Petersburg.
Thank you for your attention. See you on the streets of St. Petersburg.