It occupies the site where, at the beginning of the 18th century, there were three separate plots. The first of them belonged to Vasily Artemyevich Volynsky, the son of the cabinet minister of Empress Anna Ioannovna. After his father's execution, he sold the house to the treasury. The next owner of the Volynsky stud plot was artillery second lieutenant Pyotr Ivanovich Ivanovsky. From him the territory passed into the possession of Johann Matveevich Bulkel, and then - the wife of the Dutch merchant Login Petrovich Betling.
The neighboring plot, located downstream of the Neva, belonged to the builder of the Vyshnevolotsk canals, merchant Mikhail Serdyukov. From him the house went to the English merchant Timothy Rex.
These two houses were rebuilt before 1822, when a single building of the court banker Baron Ludwig Ivanovich Stieglitz already existed here. In 1848, the baron's entire fortune went to his son Alexander. Despite the unstable financial condition, at the end of the 1850s, Alexander Ludvigovich decided to enlarge and rebuild his St. Petersburg house. To do this, he purchased the neighboring mansion of State Councilor A.I. Bek.
The first owner of the A.I. Bek site at the beginning of the 18th century was the shipwright Ivan Nemtsov. After Nemtsov's death, the territory went to his son-in-law, architect Savva Ivanovich Chevakinsky. Later, the house was owned by the court chamberlain S.S. Zinoviev, Major General Pleshcheev, eminent citizen Bland, A.I. Bek. From the latter the house passed to A.L. Stieglitz.
The new Stieglitz mansion on the Promenade des Anglais was built by the architect A. I. Krakau. The project was ready in 1859, construction of the building was completed three years later. Krakau also built a complex of buildings on the Galernaya Street side. There was A.L.'s office there. Stieglitz (No. 71), ministerial house (No. 71), two apartment buildings (No. 54 and 69).
The wealth of the owner of the mansion was emphasized by the elegant front façade in the historicist style. The magnificent interiors were preserved in watercolors by St. Petersburg artists. Stieglitz built a real palace for his family. All decorative and applied decorations of the house were created according to Krakau’s drawings. The interior details were paintings ordered through the artist V.D. Sverchkov.
The White Hall opened the enfilade of ceremonial rooms along the Neva. Behind it was the Front Room, decorated with two canvases by the Munich landscape painters brothers Albert and Richard Zimmermann. A small passage room led to the Blue Living Room with a white marble fireplace and a lampshade “Cupid Leads Psyche to Olympus” by the German artist Hans von Mare.
The walk-through living room connected to the Dining Room. It contained three paintings, one of which ("Courtyard with a grotto in the Munich Royal Residence" by Hans von Mare) is now in the Hermitage. Two paintings for the Stieglitz mansion were painted in the studio of Carl von Pilotti. The banker’s art collection included works by such German painters as Anselm Feuerbach and Albert Heinrich Brendel. All these paintings were not just part of the collection. They were specially ordered for specific rooms and were full-fledged and integral parts of the interior. In addition to paintings, a collection of tapestries and tapestries was kept in Stieglitz’s house.
The largest hall in the palace of A.L. Stieglitz is the Dance Hall, decorated with French crystal chandeliers. On the second floor there were also the Black and Moorish living rooms. On the ground floor there were the owners' living quarters.
Alexander Ludvigovich settled in his house on the Promenade des Anglais immediately after finishing the premises, in 1862. He lived on rent from an annual income of three million and was involved in charity work. He kept his huge capital only in Russian banks, which was rare for that time (and for today too). Stieglitz financed the construction of railways, founded the School of Technical Drawing in St. Petersburg and its branches in other cities. Stieglitz donated a number of decorative and applied arts from the mansion to the school as exhibits.
Having no children of his own, Alexander Ludvigovich adopted a girl, probably the illegitimate daughter of Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich, Nadezhda Mikhailovna Iyuneva. She married a member of the State Council A. A. Polovtsov. The wedding gift from Stieglitz was a million rubles and a mansion on Bolshaya Morskaya Street (house no.). After her father’s death in 1884, Nadezhda inherited a mansion on the Promenade des Anglais, and three years later sold it to Grand Duke Pavel Alexandrovich.
The Grand Duke first saw Stieglitz's house on November 5, 1886, when he visited it with his brother Sergei. The Grand Duke and A. A. Polovtsov conducted the auction through Vice Admiral Dmitry Sergeevich Arsenyev. The owners wanted to get at least two million for the palace, while Pavel Alexandrovich expected to spend a maximum of one and a half. As a result, they agreed on a price of 1,600,000 rubles in gold.
The purchase of the palace by the Grand Duke took place before his first marriage - to Grand Duchess Alexandra Georgievna. She died after her second birth. In Europe, Pavel Alexandrovich secretly married Olga Valerianovna Pistolkors. The family did not accept Morganatic Bran; Grand Duke Nicholas II was forbidden to return to Russia for some time. But after the death of Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich, permission to marry was given. The Grand Duke's wife received the title and surname of Countess Hohenfelsen, and in 1915 the title and surname of Paley. The palace on the Promenade des Anglais was maintained in good condition even during the long stay of its owners abroad.
When selling the house, Polovtsov advised Pavel Alexandrovich to live here without altering the interiors for at least some time, to get used to the house. The advice was not accepted. Architect M.E. Messmacher was immediately invited to work on the new interiors of the mansion. He refinished the living rooms on the east side of the first floor. Until recently, there was an Office with a carved oak ceiling and a fireplace. Somewhat later, the architect N.V. Sultanov built a church on the second floor of the courtyard wing. It didn't survive.
In 1898-1899, the Grand Duke's private rooms in the western part of the first floor were remodeled by the English company Mape and Co. The Office, Library and Billiard Room were redesigned. The firm of F. Meltzer renovated the parquet floors in the Concert Hall and Reception Hall.
After 1917, paintings from the Stieglitz Palace were transferred to the All-Union Association "Antiques". With a few exceptions, their fate is unknown.
In 1918, Pavel Alexandrovich was shot. Princess Paley and her children went to Paris. The palace was nationalized. For a long time it housed various institutions. In 1968, he was taken under state protection.
In 1988, restoration of the building began. It was intended to be used for museum purposes. But the revolutionary events of the 1990s prevented these plans. The palace again passed into private hands and was empty for a long time. The interiors have fallen into disrepair and are in urgent need of restoration. In 2011, the house of A. L. Stieglitz was transferred to St. Petersburg State University.
Mansion of Baron A. L. Stieglitz - neo-renaissance
Pam. arch. (federal)
Building on Galernaya Street.
1845 - architect. Kutsi Anton Matveevich - Galernaya, 69-71
Mansion of Baron A. L. Stieglitz
1852-1862 - architect. Krakau Alexander Ivanovich - perestroika,
existing houses included - Angliyskaya embankment, 68
The palace led. book Pavel Alexandrovich
1887-1889 - architect. Mesmacher Maximilian Egorovich - alteration (. C...)
see Mansion of Baron A. L. Stieglitz ( on Galernaya street.)
Traction between the first and second floors. The lower floor is rusticated. There is a small portico in the center of the main façade. The wide frieze is decorated with moldings.
On the site of the mansion there were two residential buildings. One of them was built in 1716 and was the first stone house on the English Embankment. It was built by Ivan Nemtsov, a shipwright. After him, the house was owned by his son-in-law, a famous architect. S. I. Chevakinsky. The second house was owned by the merchant Mikhail Serdyukov, the builder of the canal system in Vyshy Volochyok.
“Architect”, 1873, Issue 2, L.6-7
Private house plans
Baron Stieglitz.
Basement.
Architect, 1873, Issue 3-4, L.11
First floor.
Architect, 1873,
Issue 3-4, L.11
Facade of the stable outbuilding.
Architect, 1873, Issue 5, L.21-22
(added)
Palace of Baron A. L. Stieglitz
on the Promenade des Anglais.
Watercolor by Albert N. Benoit.
Late 19th century
Magazine "World
illustration"
(added
)
Photo second
half of the 19th century
Church interior
St. martyr Alexandra.
(added by Mary)
Grand Duke
Pavel Alexandrovich
and his Greek wife
Princess Alexandra.
In 1917, the palace, little used for many years, was sold to the Russian Society for the Procurement of Shells and Military Supplies.
In 1919 he led. book was shot in the courtyard of the Peter and Paul Fortress.
Church of St. Alexandra
At the palace he led. book Pavel Alexandrovich had the church of St. Alexandra. The consecration of the house church took place in 1889. The temple was located on the second floor of the transverse courtyard wing and was decorated by the famous architect. N.V. Sultanov in the Old Russian style.
Authentic royal doors of the 17th century. The architect was brought from the village of Medvedkovo near Moscow. On April 2, 1889, the foundation stone of the church in the palace took place. Sultanov created all the furnishings and church utensils for the temple: sketches of the chandelier, dishes for blessing the loaves, sprinklers, and a seven-branched candlestick. The utensils were made in Moscow at the Ovchinnikov factory. A two-tier iconostasis made of gilded zinc with 35 images was created in the workshop of K. E. Morozov. The furnishings were created in the same style as the interior: armchairs, doors, a table for communion, an icon case, shrouds, brackets, stands. The temple was painted. The gentle vaults were decorated with herbal patterns, among which there were images of saints in the stamps. The lower part of the walls was painted with “towels”, above which, along the entire perimeter of the church, there was a ribbon with a dedicatory text, typed in Old Russian font. The ventilation openings were covered with plant-patterned grilles.
The princely place was separated from visitors by a dark red velvet curtain with golden double-headed eagles.
(based on the article by Yu. R. Savelyev “St. Petersburg interiors by N. V. Sultanov. History of St. Petersburg No. 5(9)/2002)
In 1897, the facade of the church was decorated with stucco figures of evangelists and angels by M. P. Popov.
The church was moved to the Tsarskoye Selo mansion. book after he moved, where it was consecrated under the name of Annunciation.
Mansion of Baron A.L. Stieglitz. Watercolors by Luigi Premazzi, 1859-1862 (1869) ? gg.
The interiors of the palace are of artistic value. The main white marble staircase stands out among them. The exit is made in the form of an arch with columns. The living room was decorated with caryatids. Draperies, gilded molding and carvings were used in decoration. The library is finished in oak. Krakau placed portraits of composers in medallions in the concert hall. The painter F. A. Bruni completed sketches of the picturesque panels “The Four Seasons”.
Five years after the completion of construction, around 1859-1862, Alexander Stieglitz commissioned the famous Italian artist Luigi Premazzi to capture the interiors of the palace in watercolors. Premazzi painted seventeen watercolors, which very accurately reflected the smallest details of the interior; all of them were enclosed in a leather album on the cover of which the coat of arms of the Stieglitz barons flaunted.
The courtyard was decorated in Baroque forms.
1938-1939 - the right courtyard wing was added to one floor.
1946-1947 - one floor was erected above the Moorish hall.
Since 1999, the palace has been restored for the Lukoil company.
11.2011. The former mansion of Baron Stieglitz at 68 Angliyskaya Embankment in St. Petersburg has been transferred to the disposal of St. Petersburg State University. http://karpovka.net/2011/11/08/28905/
The building is assigned to the university with the right of operational management. It is not yet clear how its premises will be used.
As an official representative of the university told a Karpovka correspondent, first of all, the building will be renovated, as it needs it. Our interlocutor drew special attention to the fact that the mansion is located next to Novo-Admiralteysky Island, which the educational institution also lays claim to. (Miraru1.)
[*] - 100 and 112 chairs (from the collection of the State Historical Museum). Moscow, "Constant", 2000.)
House of Baron Stieglitz
Rice. (fol. 6 and 7), depict the facade of the house of Baron Stieglitz, on Angliyskaya Embankment, in St. Petersburg. The project and execution belongs to Professor A.I. Krakau. In subsequent issues of the magazine we intend to include plans and sections of the building, as well as a description of this luxurious house. (“Architect”, 1873, Issue 2, P. 31)
The stables in the house of Baron Stieglitz, in St. Petersburg, the facade of which is depicted on sheets 21 and 22, were placed by us as an addition to the drawings of this magnificent house, drawings of which were appended to Nos. 2 and 3 of “The Architect”.
(“Architect”, 1873, Issue 5, P. 64)
Mansion of Baron A. L. Stieglitz - neo-renaissance
Pam. arch. (federal)
Building on Galernaya Street.
1845 - architect. Kutsi Anton Matveevich - Galernaya, 69-71
Mansion of Baron A. L. Stieglitz
1852-1862 - architect. Krakau Alexander Ivanovich - perestroika,
existing houses included - Angliyskaya embankment, 68
The palace led. book Pavel Alexandrovich
1887-1889 - architect. Mesmacher Maximilian Egorovich - alteration (. C...)
see Mansion of Baron A. L. Stieglitz ( on Galernaya street.)
Traction between the first and second floors. The lower floor is rusticated. There is a small portico in the center of the main façade. The wide frieze is decorated with moldings.
On the site of the mansion there were two residential buildings. One of them was built in 1716 and was the first stone house on the English Embankment. It was built by Ivan Nemtsov, a shipwright. After him, the house was owned by his son-in-law, a famous architect. S. I. Chevakinsky. The second house was owned by the merchant Mikhail Serdyukov, the builder of the canal system in Vyshy Volochyok.
“Architect”, 1873, Issue 2, L.6-7
Private house plans
Baron Stieglitz.
Basement.
Architect, 1873, Issue 3-4, L.11
First floor.
Architect, 1873,
Issue 3-4, L.11
Facade of the stable outbuilding.
Architect, 1873, Issue 5, L.21-22
(added)
Palace of Baron A. L. Stieglitz
on the Promenade des Anglais.
Watercolor by Albert N. Benoit.
Late 19th century
Magazine "World
illustration"
(added
)
Photo second
half of the 19th century
Church interior
St. martyr Alexandra.
(added by Mary)
Grand Duke
Pavel Alexandrovich
and his Greek wife
Princess Alexandra.
In 1917, the palace, little used for many years, was sold to the Russian Society for the Procurement of Shells and Military Supplies.
In 1919 he led. book was shot in the courtyard of the Peter and Paul Fortress.
Church of St. Alexandra
At the palace he led. book Pavel Alexandrovich had the church of St. Alexandra. The consecration of the house church took place in 1889. The temple was located on the second floor of the transverse courtyard wing and was decorated by the famous architect. N.V. Sultanov in the Old Russian style.
Authentic royal doors of the 17th century. The architect was brought from the village of Medvedkovo near Moscow. On April 2, 1889, the foundation stone of the church in the palace took place. Sultanov created all the furnishings and church utensils for the temple: sketches of the chandelier, dishes for blessing the loaves, sprinklers, and a seven-branched candlestick. The utensils were made in Moscow at the Ovchinnikov factory. A two-tier iconostasis made of gilded zinc with 35 images was created in the workshop of K. E. Morozov. The furnishings were created in the same style as the interior: armchairs, doors, a table for communion, an icon case, shrouds, brackets, stands. The temple was painted. The gentle vaults were decorated with herbal patterns, among which there were images of saints in the stamps. The lower part of the walls was painted with “towels”, above which, along the entire perimeter of the church, there was a ribbon with a dedicatory text, typed in Old Russian font. The ventilation openings were covered with plant-patterned grilles.
The princely place was separated from visitors by a dark red velvet curtain with golden double-headed eagles.
(based on the article by Yu. R. Savelyev “St. Petersburg interiors by N. V. Sultanov. History of St. Petersburg No. 5(9)/2002)
In 1897, the facade of the church was decorated with stucco figures of evangelists and angels by M. P. Popov.
The church was moved to the Tsarskoye Selo mansion. book after he moved, where it was consecrated under the name of Annunciation.
Mansion of Baron A.L. Stieglitz. Watercolors by Luigi Premazzi, 1859-1862 (1869) ? gg.
The interiors of the palace are of artistic value. The main white marble staircase stands out among them. The exit is made in the form of an arch with columns. The living room was decorated with caryatids. Draperies, gilded molding and carvings were used in decoration. The library is finished in oak. Krakau placed portraits of composers in medallions in the concert hall. The painter F. A. Bruni completed sketches of the picturesque panels “The Four Seasons”.
Five years after the completion of construction, around 1859-1862, Alexander Stieglitz commissioned the famous Italian artist Luigi Premazzi to capture the interiors of the palace in watercolors. Premazzi painted seventeen watercolors, which very accurately reflected the smallest details of the interior; all of them were enclosed in a leather album on the cover of which the coat of arms of the Stieglitz barons flaunted.
The courtyard was decorated in Baroque forms.
1938-1939 - the right courtyard wing was added to one floor.
1946-1947 - one floor was erected above the Moorish hall.
Since 1999, the palace has been restored for the Lukoil company.
11.2011. The former mansion of Baron Stieglitz at 68 Angliyskaya Embankment in St. Petersburg has been transferred to the disposal of St. Petersburg State University. http://karpovka.net/2011/11/08/28905/
The building is assigned to the university with the right of operational management. It is not yet clear how its premises will be used.
As an official representative of the university told a Karpovka correspondent, first of all, the building will be renovated, as it needs it. Our interlocutor drew special attention to the fact that the mansion is located next to Novo-Admiralteysky Island, which the educational institution also lays claim to. (Miraru1.)
[*] - 100 and 112 chairs (from the collection of the State Historical Museum). Moscow, "Constant", 2000.)
House of Baron Stieglitz
Rice. (fol. 6 and 7), depict the facade of the house of Baron Stieglitz, on Angliyskaya Embankment, in St. Petersburg. The project and execution belongs to Professor A.I. Krakau. In subsequent issues of the magazine we intend to include plans and sections of the building, as well as a description of this luxurious house. (“Architect”, 1873, Issue 2, P. 31)
The stables in the house of Baron Stieglitz, in St. Petersburg, the facade of which is depicted on sheets 21 and 22, were placed by us as an addition to the drawings of this magnificent house, drawings of which were appended to Nos. 2 and 3 of “The Architect”.
(“Architect”, 1873, Issue 5, P. 64)
Add interiors -- http://tsars-palaces.livejournal.com/14554.html?thread=106458 Cultural heritage of the Russian Federation: Grand Duke's Palaces. Part 3.
Palace of Grand Duke Pavel Alexandrovich (English Embankment, 66-68). 
Grand Duke Pavel Alexandrovich (September 21 (October 3) 1860, Tsarskoye Selo, near St. Petersburg - January 30, 1919, Petrograd) - the sixth son of Emperor Alexander II and his wife Empress Maria Alexandrovna; adjutant general, cavalry general.
On the banks of the Neva there is a magnificent palace where Grand Duke Pavel Alexandrovich lived. The Palace of Grand Duke Pavel Alexandrovich, or Novo-Pavlovsky Palace, is located at English Embankment, building 68, in that corner of St. Petersburg called Kolomna.
The appearance of the palace shows the influence of Italian Renaissance architecture. This is expressed in the accentuation of the main facade with a two-column Corinthian portico, in the treatment of the walls with deep rustication, and in the framing of windows with sandstones of various designs. The upper part of the façade is completed with a wide frieze decorated with moldings. The courtyard, which had access to Galernaya Street, was also designed in Baroque forms.
Frieze on the facade of Pavel Alexandrovich's palace. 
The first owner of the mansion was Baron Alexander Ludwigovich Stieglitz, by whose order it was erected in 1859-1862 by architect A. I. Krakau, partially using the walls of two old residential buildings. But first things first. Initially, on a plot of land along the Promenade des Anglais, on the site of a mansion, there were two residential buildings. One of them was built in 1716, and was the first stone house on the Promenade des Anglais. It was built by Ivan Nemtsov, a shipwright. After him, the house was owned by his son-in-law, the famous architect S.I. Chevakinsky. The second house was owned by the merchant Mikhail Serdyukov, the builder of the canal system in Vyshy Volochyok. In 1830, the site already belonged to the Stieglitz barons, immigrants from the German principality of Waldeck.
May the readers forgive me for my free digression, but I cannot help but talk about the barons. Nikolai Stieglitz, having moved to Russia at the end of the 18th century, founded the St. Petersburg trading house. In 1802, his brother Ludwig came to visit him; He engaged in export-import trade, soon made a significant fortune and became a court banker.
Palace of Baron A.L. Stieglitz on the Promenade des Anglais. Watercolor by Albert N. Benoit. End of the 19th century 
Ludwig Stieglitz accepted Russian citizenship in 1807 and was granted the title of baron in 1826. He was one of the founders of the Black Sea Shipping Company, and the organizer of the Odessa loan. The Stieglitzes quickly grew rich, and the old mansions located on this site no longer corresponded to their status. Baron Alexander Ludwigovich Stieglitz, son of Ludwig, ordered the then fashionable architect Krokau in St. Petersburg to build a palace on this site.
Alexander Ludvigovich inherited from his father a huge fortune of 18 million rubles and the entire financial empire of the Stieglitzes, which was then involved in organizing foreign loans for Russia. The new palace had to correspond to all this. Stieglitz gave the architect complete freedom of creativity and an unlimited budget.
A huge sum by those standards was spent on construction - 3.5 million rubles. Until 1887, the palace belonged to Baron Alexander Ludwigovich Stieglitz, the son of Baron Ludwig von Stieglitz. The palace stood out from everything that had been built so far on the Promenade des Anglais. Designed in the spirit of the then fashionable Italian palazzo, the façade has not changed and has reached us in its original form. The interiors of the palace combine all the ideas of the mid-19th century about style, beauty and comfort.
Five years after the completion of construction, around 1859-1862, Alexander Stieglitz commissioned the famous Italian artist Luigi Premazzi to capture the interiors of the palace in watercolors. Premazzi painted seventeen watercolors, which very accurately reflected the smallest details of the interior; all of them were enclosed in a leather album, on the cover of which was the coat of arms of the Barons von Stieglitz. Now this masterpiece is in the Hermitage collection. Thanks to this, we can accurately appreciate all the luxury with which the palace was decorated inside; in addition, we can see the richest collection of paintings that Stieglitz owned.
Alexander von Stieglitz, financial baron.
Alexander Lyudvigovich built railways and produced paper, was a banker and a large-scale philanthropist - he built schools, colleges and museums. Later he retired from entrepreneurial activity and headed the State Bank. Soon the baron in a certain way became related to the Imperial family.
According to contemporaries, the banker was an unsociable person. He often gave and took millions of sums without saying a word. It was also strange, according to some fellow financiers, that Stieglitz placed most of his capital in Russian funds. To all skeptical remarks regarding the imprudence of such an act, the banker replied: “My father and I received our fortune in Russia: if it turns out to be insolvent, then I am ready to lose all my fortune with it.”
On June 24, 1844, at the Stieglitz dacha in Petrovsky, near St. Petersburg, a richly decorated basket appeared in which lay a baby girl. There was a note in the basket indicating the girl’s date of birth, her name - Nadezhda, and that her father’s name was Mikhail.
According to the Stieglitz family legend, the girl was the illegitimate daughter of Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich, the younger brother of Nicholas I. The girl was given the last name Juneva, in honor of that beautiful June day when she was found. Baron Stieglitz adopted her and made her his heir, since he had no children of his own, and he was the last in his family.
Grand Duke Pavel, his second wife Olga Valerianovna Paley and their children. 
Baron Alexander Ludvigovich died in 1884, leaving the lucky foundling a simply grandiose fortune of 38 million rubles, real estate, financial structures... and including a palace on the Promenade des Anglais, the price of which, together with the collection of works of art in it, was then three million rubles
With Olga Paley.
However, Nadezhda Mikhailovna Iyuneva lived in another house on Bolshaya Morskaya, together with her husband Alexander Polovtsev. This house was also given to her by Alexander Stieglitz. They decided not to move into the palace and put it up for sale. However, only a select few could afford such an expensive purchase, and the palace stood empty for three years.
We return to the palace. A strong draft emphasizes the division of the façade into two floors. The walls of the lower floor are rusticated. The plaster of the walls of the upper floor imitates the facing of hewn stone. The platbands of the first floor with straight brackets on the brackets are simple and strict in design. In the mezzanine, the platbands have the form of porticoes consisting of two columns on pedestals supporting a triangular pediment. The center of the main façade is accentuated by a portico of two columns flanking the entrance. The plane of the façade is completed with a wide frieze decorated with moldings.
The interiors of the house are of artistic value. Among them, the ceremonial white marble staircase, the walls of which are decorated with Corinthian pilasters at the level of the second floor, stands out in terms of the richness of its compositional design.
The former Living Room, arranged in five axes and decorated with caryatids, is not inferior to it in decoration. Nearby is the Dance Hall - the most elegant room of the palace, decorated with Corinthian fluted columns.
The entrance from the street, from the staircase, is designed in the form of an arch decorated with columns. The door from the second floor landing leads to the central room of the front suite - a room facing the Neva.
It was a reception room, next to which there was a large living room with five axes, decorated with caryatids. Three wide openings connected the “Cariatic” with the dance hall - the most spectacular and spacious room, decorated with Corinthian fluted columns.
Damask draperies, gilded molding, and carvings were widely used in decoration. The library room was decorated in oak. Fireplaces made of white and colored marble with sculptural details played a significant role in the decorative design of state rooms. In the concert hall, on padugas, in oval medallions, Krakau placed sculptural portraits of composers. One of the luminaries of Russian painting, F. A. Bruni, executed sketches of the painting panels “The Four Seasons” for interiors.
And here before your eyes are those same watercolors by Luigi Premazzi.....
1 - Dance hall.
2 - Dinner room.
3 - Concert hall.
4 - Library in the palace of A. L. Stieglitz.
5 - Living room.
6 - Office of Baroness von Stieglitz.
7 -- Dining room.
8 - White living room.
Nowadays.
9 - Main office.
10 - Blue living room.
Nowadays.
11 - Golden Hall.
And so in 1887, the palace was bought for Grand Duke Pavel Alexandrovich, and “only” for 1.6 million rubles.
The palace was purchased on the occasion of the upcoming wedding of Pavel Alexandrovich and Princess Alexandra Georgievna of Greece. The wedding reception took place on June 6, 1889. Since then, the palace has officially received the name Novo-Pavlovsky.
The young couple did not make any special changes to the interior - the same ones that were made were carried out by the architect Messmacher. The only major change was the installation of a church in the palace.
Church of the Martyr Queen Alexandra at the palace of Grand Duke Pavel Alexandrovich.
On May 17, 1889, the house church was consecrated. The church, built according to the design of the architect N.V. Sultanova, was located on the second floor of the transverse courtyard wing, and was decorated in the Old Russian style.
In 1891, after giving birth, Alexandra Georgievna dies.
By that time they already had a daughter, Maria Pavlovna, but the birth of their son Dmitry ended tragically for the mother. Only in 1902 did the Grand Duke marry for the second time, but how...
Olga Valerianovna Karnovich, married Princess Paley, Countess of Hohenfelsen.
Against the will of the Emperor, he married the divorced Olga Karnovich, after her first husband von Pistolkors... But it’s not worth talking about Paley and her descendants here. We mention her only because it was precisely because of his marriage to her that the Grand Duke could not live in his palace, but was forced to live in France.
Natalie Paley - daughter of Pavel Alexandrovich and Olga Paley
Nicholas II finally forgave his uncle only with the beginning of the Great War, when Pavel Alexandrovich asked to go to Russia to serve the country. Grand Duchess Alexandra Georgievna with her daughter, Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna
On February 18, 1917, the city palace, little used for many years, was sold to the Russian Society for the Procurement of Shells and Military Supplies. The church was moved to the Tsarskoye Selo mansion, where it was consecrated under the name Blagoveshchenskaya. House of A. L. Stieglitz (palace of Grand Duke Pavel Alexandrovich). Main building. South facade.
During the years of Soviet power, the palace underwent major changes. In 1938-1939 the right courtyard wing was built on one floor. In 1946-1947 - one floor was erected above the Moorish hall. The palace housed first an orphanage, and then a shipbuilding design bureau - at that time 1,500 people worked in the house.
