One of the most famous sights of the city on the Neva is the Tauride Palace. It is located near the Smolny Institute and Smolny Monastery and still attracts thousands of tourists from all over Russia and from abroad with the luxury of interior decoration and strictness of external forms.
History of the Tauride Palace
The appearance of the Tauride Palace in St. Petersburg is associated with the commander of the Russian army in the Russian-Turkish war - Grigory Potemkin. Thanks to his strategic talent for the Russian Empire, Tavrida, the Crimea peninsula, was annexed. The legendary favorite of Catherine II was added prefix Taurian to the surname. For the convenience of his stay in St. Petersburg, the Earl ordered to build a palace in 1782. For the erection of the Tauride Palace, Ivan Starov was chosen as the architect, with whom Potemkin brought a close acquaintance even while studying at the gymnasium. And from 1783 to 1789 construction was carried out, for which a site was chosen on the banks of the Neva in the distance from the city center. The palace held luxurious balls, evenings, concerts, dinners. After the death of Potemkin, Catherine II bought the Tauride Palace and made it his residence. Paul I gave a magnificent structure under the stables for the Konogvardeysky regiment, because of which the palace fell into decay. However, under Alexander I he was restored thanks to the efforts of the architect L. Rusk and the artist D. Scotty. From 1907 to 1917, the State Duma held its meetings here. By the way, in the spring of 2013, the restoration of the Duma Hall of the Tauride Palace in appearance, which he had at the beginning of the 20th century, was over.
During the revolution, the Provisional Committee was established there, followed by the Provisional Government. Under Soviet power, the palace was the Leningrad Higher Party School. Today the IPA CIS headquarters are located here, conferences, congresses, political events are held.
Tauride Palace: style and architecture
According to the project Starov, the Tauride Palace was built on the popular Russian style - in the form of a stretched letter "P" and was turned by the facade to the river. Being an excellent example of strict classicism, the building strikes with its simplicity and at the same time solidity. From its central two-story building depart two symmetrical lateral two-storyed wings, connected by one-story transitions. All this space as a whole forms a vast entrance porch entrance, in the depths of which there is a Roman-Doric portico with six columns. The main part of the building is decorated with a dome. Virtually no decoration from the outside is compensated by the luxurious atmosphere inside the palace. Behind the lobby is a square shaped octagonal Dome Hall. The Catherine Hall of the Tauride Palace is immediately behind it and is a gallery with many columns and rounded end walls. Then follows the Winter Garden - a room with glass walls and a roof, where year-round exotic plants were grown.
Almost every room is decorated with luxurious parquet from expensive woods, painted on walls, magnificent canvases, carpets, furniture.
The Tavrichesky Palace: excursions
Visit the majestic palace and admire its decoration can anyone who wishes on working days. Street Shpalernaya, 47 - is the address where the Tauride Palace is located. Working hours are from 9 am to 6 pm. Visitors are shown Ekaterininsky, Dome and Duma halls. By the way, there is an organ hall in the Tauride Palace: in 2011 the Dome set was placed in the Dome Hall. They replaced the smaller instrument of the Count Potemkin himself. Therefore, concerts in the Tavrichesky Palace, where music is written by great composers - Grieg, Beethoven, Handel, Bach - are not uncommon.
Guests of St. Petersburg will also be interested in visiting other palaces: Yusupovsky , Mikhailovsky , Sheremetyevsky , as well as the sights of its suburbs .
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