Mansions and palaces
Monument of Art Nouveau architecture in St. Petersburg. Built in 1904-1906 years in the style of "Northern modern" by architect A. I. von Gauguin - different asymmetrical plan and composition uneven volumes.
Stackensneider's palace was conceived by Emperor Nicholas I as a present to his daughter Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia on the occasion of her marriage to Maximilian, Duke of Leuchtenberg, Eugène de Beauharnais's son.
The Travel Palace is located at the entrance to Moscow from St. Petersburg, and is the Russian example of neo-Gothic architecture. It was built by order of Catherine II in 1776—1780s to commemorate the successful ending of the Russian-Turkish War of 1768—1774.
The mansion was built by architect F. Shekhtel for S. Ryabushinsky. The house is built in the early modern style (1900-1903). There are elements of the English Gothics and Mauritanian style in the architecture of the mansion.
Levenson’s typography was created by architect F. Schechtel in 1900. Tent-roofed towers and gable roofs give the building the features of a medieval castle. A panel picture in the Art Nouveau style depicts two workers at the printing press.
Gothic little towers, arched windows, castellated walls — the house was steeped in a mystery and soaked with the spirit of the Middle Ages. No one could have imagined then that this house would be the first example of the new Russian architectural style. The mansion was built by a talented architect Fyodor Schechtel in fashionable neo-Gothic style at the end of the 19th century.
In 1911-12 Peter Behrens designed the building in the style of European neoclassicism: it was the building of German Embassy in St. Isaac's Square in St. Petersburg.
The ensemble of the Grand Oranienbaum Menshikov Palace is an outstanding architectural monument in the early Baroque style of the first half of the 18th century. It was founded by nobleman Menshikov in 1711 by the project of architects Fontana, Schadel and Braunstein. The palace has two tiers of terraces with steep walls, ramps and stairs.
In 1797 Anna Beloselskaya bought a small stone house on the corner of Nevsky Prospekt and the Fontanka from Ivan Naryshkin. The house was demolished, and at the end of the 18th century architects Thomas de Thomon and F. Demertsov built the first three-story palace with the modest façade in classical style on it place. In 1847-1848 the palace was rebuilt by architect Andrei Stakenschneider and acquired its modern look.
This is the first building in Russia, built specifically for the public art museum. In 1837 Nicholas I, the Emperor of Russi, on his visit to Munich decided to invite a very famous by then German architect Leo von Klenze, who created ‘Bavarian Athens’, to lead the future building process. When Klenze saw St. Petersburg, where the Nevsky Prospect was five times longer than Ludwigstrasse in Munich, he decided to create something impressive.
