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This place
The Catherine Palace is the highlight of your visit to St.Petersburg. Lavish and refined, sumptuous and elegant at the same time, this is a unique monument of the High Russian Baroque period reflecting the Empress’s flamboyant lifestyle. Here it is so easy to immerse yourself in the atmosphere of festiveness. Badly damaged during the WWII it was completely restored after.
Interesting fact: The Catherine palace was built for… Elisabeth! Neither of Catherine who ruled the country could appreciate the beauty. Catherine I owned the plot of land and had a small hounting lodge there, Catherine II did not like baroque style at all but to save on costs, she ordered to redesign a few rooms to live in and preserved gold in the State Halls.
This day
On 8 November 1833, the Mikailovsky Theatre was officialy opened on the name day of the Grand duke Mikhail, brother of Emperor Nicholas I. The classical style building was built for the chamber’s imperial theater of the Mikhailovsky Palace.
A permanent troupe appeared in the theater in 1918, before mainly German and French actors performed on the stage.
