Palace of Counts Sheremetev

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Sheremetev Palace - Museum of Music, also called the "Fountain House" in the place of its location in the territory of the former estate of Count Sheremetev "Fountain House". A plot of land along the Fontanka River (Bezymyanniy Yerik) was granted to Peter the First by the Field Marshal, Count BP Sheremetev in 1712. The two-storey stone palace that now exists was built in 1750. The architect of the building is S. Chevakinsky. There are reasons to believe that the draft used drawings of F.-B. Rastrelli.

Until 1917 Sheremetev Palace and the estate belonged to the eldest of five generations (the Count) branch of the famous Russian Sheremetev family.

After the Revolution, the Palace was muzeefitsirovat and how noble life museum existed until 1931 was based its funds The private collection of the Sheremetevs, formed during 200 years, was formed, which was a complex complex of various layers. The collection, universal in character and diverse in subjects, included a pictorial art gallery, a collection of sculptures, weapons, numismatics, decorative art items, a library, a collection of church utensils and icons.

For more than 150 years, the palace was a "patrimonial nest" Sheremetevs, it housed collections of paintings and antiques, here Pushkin posed for Kiprensky for the famous portrait.

In 1990 Sheremetevsky Palace was transferred to the Museum of Theater and Music for the creation of the Museum of Music of St. Petersburg and the placement of the state collection of musical instruments. Since the late 1980s in the Sheremetev Palace began restoration work associated with restoring the gala and memorial interiors of XIX century.

Music Collection Sheremetev Palace has more than three thousand tools and is one of the five largest in the world and the best in Russia. In its composition, the instruments created by the famous West European and Russian masters of the 16th-20th centuries; memorial instruments of the composers of the Russian school of the 19th - 20th centuries; collections belonging to the Romanov family; unique Russian horn orchestra; musical instruments of all continents of the world.

Now the Fountain House, as St. Petersburgers called it, houses the Museum of Music. Many years in the palace wing lived the poet Anna Akhmatova, and it is open Memorial Museum

The museum operates a permanent exhibition "The Sheremetev family and the Musical Life of 18 - early 20 centuries.", Which opened in 1995 and implemented in cooperation with the State Hermitage Museum, The State Russian Museum, the Russian National Library, the Pushkin House, the State Tretyakov Gallery, the Ostankino Palace Museum, the Museum of Russian porcelain Kuskovo, the owners of private collections.

Sheremetevsky Palace

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Working hours: Thursday-Monday 11.00-19.00, Wednesday 13.00-21.00, cash desk closes one hour earlier, weekends: Tuesday and last Wednesday of the month.

Address: St. Petersburg, nab. Fontanka River, 34

Palace of Sheremetev Counts

Drawing Room, Sheremetev Palace of Counts

Collection of Instruments, Palace of Counts of Sheremetevs

Concert Hall, Palace of Counts of Sheremetev