Белосельский-Белозерский дворец /Beloselsky-Belozersky Palace - 1868-1916

Россия на дореволюционных фотографиях
Белосельский-Белозерский дворец
Невский проспект
Санкт-Петербург
1868-1916

Russia in pre-revolutionary photographs
Beloselsky-Belozersky Palace
Nevsky Prospekt
St. Petersburg
1868-1916

Музыка:
Батюшковский вальс

Music:
Batyushkovsky Waltz

The Belosselsky Belozersky Palace is a Neo-Baroque palace in St. Petersburg located on Nevsky Prospect adjacent to the Fontana River...
The present palace was constructed between 1846-1848...The palace was put up for sale around the time of the engagement of Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia to Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and the Rhine in 1883. The interiors photographs are from this time..
Following there assassination of Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich, the Duchess moved from this lavish palace, setting up the Marfo-Mariinsky Convent. The palace passed to Grand Duke Dmitri.

During the First World War, from January 1916 until January 1918, the palace was the base of the Anglo-Russian Hospital, a voluntary British Red Cross hospital set up to treat Russian soldiers. It was staffed by British doctors and nurses, and led by Lady Muriel Paget and Lady Sybil Grey....
During the Russian Revolution, the palace was nationalised and housed the district committee of the Communist party of the Kuibyshev district until 1991.... when the City Council designated the palace a municipal cultural centre. The Rococo interiors which had sustained considerable damage during the Leningrad Blockade were restored to their former glory in 1954. The palace now hosts a number of chamber concerts and houses a "wax works".

Видео Белосельский-Белозерский дворец /Beloselsky-Belozersky Palace - 1868-1916 канала Nigel Fowler Sutton