🏛 Konyushennaya Square

A square by the Court Stables Department — a long yellow Empire-style building with a church in the center.

The square got its name in 1739, after the Imperial Stables Yard.
On 1 February 1837 Pushkin's funeral service was held in the Konyushennaya Church, from where the coffin was taken to the Svyatogorsk Monastery.
The Stables Department building was rebuilt by Vasily Stasov in 1817–1823, turning its main facade toward the square.
In 1812 Barclay de Tolly set off for the active army from the square, where court carriages gathered.
In 1883 the chapel from the site of the assassination attempt on Alexander II was moved here, when the Savior on Blood began to be built there.
In the 2010s the stables building was to be turned into an apart-hotel, but after protests by preservationists it was given to the Museum of the History of St Petersburg.

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