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|Isaakiyevskaya Square|Custom1|O:104|, 6
1839-44. Architect A. Stakenschneider
Now the City's Administration building
The palace was built for Nicholas I's daughter Grand Duchess Maria Nikolayevna. It was the
first big work by the architect. The facade is designed on classical principles; its center is
accentuated by a portico with a bulky attic and open arcade of the main entrance, supporting a
balcony with six big vases.
Artistically the palace interiors are of interest. Having taken the layout of the |Tavrichesky|Custom1|O:63|
|(Taurida) Palace|Custom1|O:63| for a model (architect I.Starov,
1783-90) and developed it Stakenschneider
created a suite of halls that was not parallel to
the main facade, but went back, along the
central axis of the building. It is the only suite of
such kind know in Russian 19th - century
architecture. The suite is opened by a vestibule
leading to the central Rotunda. It is decorated
with 32 columns, spanned with a cupola and
illuminated from above. In 1906-7 a spacious Hall
for the State Council Sittings was set up in place
of former winter garden, to a design by L.Benois.
In 1884 the palace was acquired into the Treasury
and came to accommodate the State Council; after
the February revolution of 1917 it used to be the
residence of the Provisional Government.