🖼 Yusupov Palace

наб. Мойки, 94

A palace on the Moyka with an enfilade of state rooms and a small rococo home theatre.

On the night of 17 (30) December 1916 Grigory Rasputin was murdered in this palace; Felix Yusupov was exiled to his estate in Rakitnoye for taking part.
The Yusupovs bought the palace in 1830 for 250,000 paper rubles — it was just one of their 57 palaces in Russia.
Construction began in the 1770s to a design by Jean-Baptiste Vallin de la Mothe for Count Andrey Shuvalov.
On the Dekabristov Street side, a gate arch and a seven-metre fence with a colonnade survive from the 18th century.
In 1830–1838 the architect Andrey Mikhailov completed the White Column Hall, the picture galleries and the home theatre.
Today the palace houses the Palace of Culture of Education Workers, with tours, exhibitions and concerts.

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