Vladimir Palace

The Vladimir Palace (Russian Владимирский дворец ) was one of the last built in St. Petersburg imperial buildings. It was designed in 1867-1872 by a group of three architects for a son of Alexander II, Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich.

As with the Winter Palace, the Hermitage and the Marble Palace also shows the back of the Vladimir Palace to the Neva. This location was very popular in aristocratic circles. The rustifizierte façade is based on the designed by Filippo Brunelleschi and by Bartolomeo Ammannati extended Palazzo Pitti in Florence. The main entrance consists of Bremen sandstone and decorated with griffins, coat of arms and cast- iron lanterns.

Of the 360 rooms that make up the palace and its outbuildings, the representative rooms in all sorts of styles are embellished: the reception room and living room, for example, in neo-Renaissance, the dining room in the Gothic Revival, the Oak Room in the Russian style, the White Hall in the Rococo and the master bedroom in the Byzantine style.

In addition, you will find, among other spaces in the Louis XIV style, as well as various front and East Asian furnished rooms. The mix of styles was expanded 1880-1892 by Maximilian Messmacher and thus represents a kind of memorial for the preferred style of the 19th century, historicism, dar.

Today, the Vladimir Palace as part of the House of scholars (Russian Дом учёных ) of the Russian Academy of Sciences and is used for many international conferences and seminars.