The palace and park ensemble of Yelagin Island is a real masterpiece of Russian architecture and landscaping of the 1 st third of the 19-th century. The country palace of Ivan Yelagin, one of the courtiers of Catherine the Great, was probably designed by the architect Giacomo Quarenghi and constructed in the 1780s. Then the palace was reconstructed in 1818-1822 for Empress Maria Fyodorovna. It was then that considerable landscaping was done on Yelagin Island and the beautiful park was formed. Until 1917, the palace was a summer residence of the Emperor's family. In 1942, during World War II, the palace was ruined. It was reconstructed by the architect Mikhail Plotnikov in 1952-1960.

The first floor of the palace houses a suite of official rooms decorated by such outstanding painters and sculptors of the late 18-th -early 19-th centuries as Antonio Vighi, Barnaba Medici, Pietro Scotti, Vasily Demut-Malinovsky and Stepan Pimenov. Of special interest are the Oval Hall, the Crimson Room and the Blue Room. Here, you can see palace furniture of the first half of the 19-th century.

The second floor houses an exhibition of applied art: china and glass items, embroidery, fabrics, carved wood and metal objects of the late 18-th -early 20-th centuries.

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