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Anichkov Palace playbill
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Folkshow at Anichkov Palace (Concert hall "Carnival")
 Anichkov Palace is a former imperial palace in St Petersburg, located at the intersection of Nevsky Prospect and the Fontanka river embankment.
The palace, situated on the plot formerly owned by Antonio de Vieira, takes its name from the nearby Anichkov Bridge across the Fontanka. Designed for Empress Elizabeth in a dazzling Baroque style, the palace came to be known as the most imposing private residence of the Elizabethan era.
Construction works continued for 13 years and, when finally finished in 1754, the palace was presented by the Empress to her favourite and likely spouse, Count Aleksey Razumovsky. After his death, the palace reverted to the crown, only to be donated by Catherine the Great to her own favourite, Prince Potemkin, in 1776. The architect Ivan Starov was charged with extensive renovations of the palace in the newly-fashionable Neoclassical style, which was effected in 1778 and 1779. The last major structural additions were made in the reign of Alexander I, with Quarenghi's construction of the Imperial Cabinet along Nevsky Prospect.
The future Alexander III of Russia saw new life breathed into the palace, ensuring its refacing in a variety of historic styles. It was there that the last Russian tsar, Nicholas II, spent his childhood years. It was also the setting for numerous family festivities, including the wedding of Nicholas's niece Irina Romanova to Prince Felix Yusupov in 1914. It is often said that the family of the last tsar preferred the cosy apartments of Anichkov Palace to the vastness of their official residence, Winter Palace. His mother, Maria Feodorovna, continued to dwell in the palace until the February Revolution, when the Ministry of
Provisions moved there instead.
Following the October Revolution, the Anichkov Palace was nationalized and designated the St Petersburg City Museum. Since 1934, when it was converted into the Young Pioneer Palace, the palace has housed over hundred after-school clubs for more than 10,000 children. While a small museum inside is open to the public at selected times, the edifice is normally not accessible to tourists.
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