Презентация "Михайловский замок"

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T he future emperor Paul I was born in the Summer Palace of Elisaveta Petrovna in 1754. That palace made of wood was erected in 1741-1744 by the architect Bartolomeo Rastrelli .

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There was a large garden near the palace. The Summer Garden was situated in front of it. The Empress Elisaveta Petrovna liked to live there. Paul I spent his childhood here.

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In 1797 Paul I ordered to pull down the palace and to build a castle in its place. The Mikhaylovsky Castle was erected by the architect Vasily Bazhenov with the assistance of Vincenzo Brenna in 1797-1800. There was a legend according to which a shinning youth appeared to a guard standing at this point near the Summer Palace of Elisaveta Petrovna , and said that he was Archangel Michael and ordered him to go to the emperor Paul I and tell him to construct a temple in his honour in this place. The work of the erection of a castle and a church continued day and night.

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The castle was sanctified on the 8 th of November in 1800. The castle was surrounded with trenches with drawbridges, twenty canals were ready in case of fire. Paul I believed that secret passages inside the castle, the earthen ramparts and moats surrounding it and the drawbridges would be reliable protection against the conspiracies budding at court. But the emperor resided only some forty days in his new castle. He was murdered in his castle by his close associates at night on the 12 th of March in 1801.

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After the murder the Mikhaylovsky Castle was given to the Commissariat Department. A few years later the Central Engineering College was housed in the castle. The future writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky was one of its graduates. Today the Department of Russian Museum is housed in the Mikhaylovsky Castle.

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The end. Thank you for your attention. St. Petersburg 2014