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      🖼 Russian Museum (Mikhailovsky Palace)

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      Rossi's classical palace with a grand staircase — the largest collection of Russian art, from icons to the avant-garde.

      Russian Museum (Mikhailovsky Palace)
      © Елена Нечипоренко · CC BY-SA 4.0
      Russian Museum (Mikhailovsky Palace)
      © Елена Нечипоренко · CC BY-SA 4.0
      • The Mikhailovsky Palace was built in 1819–1825 for Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich, the youngest son of Paul I.
      • Paul I ordered money to be set aside each year for a palace for his youngest son, "so that my son could live like a tsar", but did not live to see it built.
      • The museum was established by Nicholas II in 1895 as the "Russian Museum of Emperor Alexander III" and opened on 19 March 1898.
      • The collection has more than 410 thousand items, including about 5 thousand icons from the 12th to the early 20th century.
      • In 1941 more than 7,500 of the most valuable exhibits were evacuated to Molotov, and not one was damaged during the war.
      • Besides the Mikhailovsky Palace, the museum also owns the Marble and Stroganov palaces, St Michael's Castle and Peter I's Summer Palace.

      Part of these routes

      • Summer Garden, St Michael’s Castle and the Russian Museum
      • A rainy day: the Hermitage, the Russian Museum and Fabergé
      • Musical Petersburg: the Capella, the Philharmonic, the Mariinsky
      • Summer Garden and the Russian Museum: the long loop
      • Russian Museum and the Savior's mosaics for schoolkids
      • Field of Mars, the Summer Garden and Mikhailovsky Castle

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