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      Marble Palace, the Benois Wing and Stroganov Palace

      ⏱ 1 h 20 min🚶 2.4 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      The Russian Museum's palaces from outside — the Marble Palace, the Benois Wing and Rastrelli's Baroque Stroganov Palace — and coffee at the end in the Singer House with a view of Kazan Cathedral.

      🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art☔️ If it rains⏱ An hour or so
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        🖼 Marble Palace
        Миллионная ул., 5/1
        🎟 ticket · a branch of the Russian Museum
        Rinaldi's palace, faced with marble and granite in dozens of shades, with the Marble Hall and Russian Museum exhibitions.
        Marble halls and contemporary art
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        Marble Palace
        © Vyacheslav Bukharov · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The palace was built in 1768–1785 for Grigory Orlov, but Catherine II's favourite died in 1783 before it was finished.
        • It was the first building in Petersburg with natural stone façades — hence its first name, the "Marble House".
        • The pilasters are made of pinkish Tivdia marble from Karelia, with bluish-grey Ruskeala marble between them.
        • Until the end of the 19th century Quarenghi, rather than Rinaldi, was mistakenly thought to be its architect.
        • The last king of Poland, Stanisław Poniatowski, lived and died here in 1797–1798.
        • The ceiling painting of the Marble Hall, "The Wedding of Cupid and Psyche", was painted by Stefano Torelli in 1775.
        • From 1940 to 1992 an Austin-Putilovets armoured car stood in front of the palace — it was a branch of the Lenin Museum.
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        🖼 Benois Wing of the Russian Museum
        наб. канала Грибоедова, 2
        🎟 ticket
        20th-century art: Malevich, Petrov-Vodkin
        The Benois facade on Nevsky; Malevich and Petrov-Vodkin are separate and take another 1.5–2 hours.
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        Benois Wing of the Russian Museum
        © Никонико962 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The wing was designed in 1910–1912 by Leontiy Benois and Sergey Ovsyannikov.
        • It was laid down on 27 June 1914, but because of the war it was only finished in 1919.
        • The building was first called the Palace of Arts and was meant for exhibitions of artists' associations.
        • The Russian Museum's modern art department moved in here in 1932.
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        🖼 Stroganov Palace
        Невский пр., 17
        🎟 ticket · a branch of the Russian Museum
        A pink Baroque palace at the corner of Nevsky and the Moika with restored state rooms.
        Rastrelli's Baroque
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        Stroganov Palace
        © Александровы АГ · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The palace was built by Rastrelli in 1753–1754 for Baron Sergey Stroganov; the architect lived in the earlier house on the site.
        • Under Rastrelli the palace had fifty state rooms; of his interiors the Great Hall and the ceremonial vestibule survive.
        • The ceiling painting of the Great Hall was done by Giuseppe Valeriani in 1753; the hall was later tactfully reworked by Voronikhin.
        • Voronikhin created a domed Mineral Cabinet in the palace; it was recreated in 2003.
        • The Stroganov collection included Boltraffio's "Portrait of a Youth as St Sebastian", then believed to be by Leonardo.
        • The palace was nationalised in 1918 and handed to the Russian Museum in 1988.
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        ☕️ Singer House and Café René
        Невский пр., 28
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        Coffee with a view of Kazan Cathedral
        🍴 A Russian-French café, René, on the 2nd floor of the House of Books (Singer House) from the Aster team, with windows onto Kazan Cathedral, breakfasts in the morning and a pastry counter. What to order: vareniki, gratin with Gruyère, onion soup, pyshki or a croissant with coffee.

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