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      🏛 Chesme Palace

      ул. Гастелло, 15

      Felten's Neo-Gothic travel palace (1770s) with a triangular plan and towers; now a telecommunications university.

      Chesme Palace
      © Екатерина Борисова · CC BY-SA 4.0
      • The area was called "Kekerikeksinen" in Finnish — "Frog Marsh" — and the palace was at first called the Frog Palace.
      • For it Catherine ordered a Wedgwood service "with a green frog" — 944 pieces for 50 people.
      • The palace was named Chesme to mark the 10th anniversary of the victory at Chesme (1770).
      • The sides of the triangular building are about 40 metres long, with a round state hall set in the centre.
      • In spring 1826 the body of Alexander I was moved here from the Taganrog coffin to a new one before the funeral.
      • From the 1830s the palace housed an almshouse for veterans of the War of 1812, when wings were added to the towers.
      • In 1919 the almshouse was closed and the "Chesmenka" concentration camp was set up.

      Part of these routes

      • Moskovsky District: Novodevichy, the MiG and Chesma
      • A MiG over the Pond and the Striped Chesme Church

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