Museum of court carriages , colloquially Stable Museum - a museum dedicated to the Russian crew art , located in St. Petersburg. From 1860 to September 1917, the museum was located on the second floor of a purpose-built building on Konyushennaya Square in St. Petersburg .
| Sight | |
| Stable Museum | |
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 The building of the Stable Museum. Photo of the 1900s. | |
| A country |  Russia |
| City | St. Petersburg |
| Architectural style | neo-baroque |
| Project Author | P.S. Sadovnikov |
| Established | |
| Status |  An object of cultural heritage of the peoples of the Russian Federation of regional significance. Reg. No. 781710784680035 ( EGROKN ). (Wikigid database) |
Content
History
Initially, the museum was located in the main stables of the Stables' yard . He had a unique collection, including carriages with lavish finishes and precious jewelry, stuffed royal horses and other rarities. In the 1840s, the idea arose of building a separate building for the museum, but it was not possible to implement it for a long time [1] .
Only in 1857, on the order of the court-stable department on Konyushennaya Square , the construction of a new neo - baroque building began according to the project of architect P. S. Sadovnikov [2] . P.S. Academician D. Jensen worked on the sculptural decoration [2] .
The museum in the new building opened in 1860. The lower floor of the building was decorated with carved oak gates. There were 15 of them. Crews intended for departures of the imperial family and retinues (a kind of royal garage) were stored behind them. The second floor was occupied by the museum itself, where the double cart of Peter the Great , the amusing and masquerade sleighs of the 18th-century queens, other rare carriages, as well as tapestries of Paris and St. Petersburg manufactories [1] , stuffed tsar's trotters, and works by saddlery artists were exhibited. After the death of Alexander II , the remains of the broken imperial carriage were transferred to the museum [2] .
To raise the crews from the courtyard to the second floor, there was a special ramp with a vestibule, in which a lifting mechanism and a turntable were installed [3] .
In September 1917, the museum was looted, then transformed into a branch of the State Hermitage Museum , and in 1926 it was abolished. The museum’s collection was distributed between the funds of the Hermitage, the State Historical Museum and the museum in Detsky Selo [2] . Since 1930, the building has housed a bus fleet and a club of drivers and aviators named after A. D. Sadovsky [1] . Later, the building was given to the sports community "Labor Reserves" . In May 1935, after the murder of S. M. Kirov in the large hall of the building of the former museum, residents of the city were subjected to reprisals by the NKVD in the form of administrative expulsion [4] .
Since 1938, a taxi garage was built on the ground floor of the building, in 1950 it was transformed into a taxi fleet [1] and a taxi dispatch center; Since 1990 - a branch of the state-owned enterprise Passazhiravtotrans.
Illustrations
- Modern view of the building
General form
View from the yard
Gate to the courtyard
Facade detail
- Exhibits of the Stables Museum
Elizabeth Petrovna's carriage
Masquerade sleigh of Catherine II
Double sled for men
Stroller Pavel Petrovich
See also
- Stable yard
- Hermitage Garage
- Museums with expositions of carriages and other horse-drawn carts
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Kirikov, 2003 .
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Margolis, 2003 .
- ↑ 1 2 Architect, 1877 .
- ↑ Axelrod, Mankova, 2011 .
Literature
- Margolis A.D. Stable Museum . Encyclopedia of St. Petersburg, encspb.ru (2003).
- Pyrgov E.A. Museum of court crews // Architect . - 1877. - Issue. 11-12. - S. 108-109.
- Kirikov B.M. Bolshaya Konyushennaya Street. - M .: Centerpolygraph; SPb. : MiM-Delta, 2003. - S. 26-29. - 182 p. - ISBN 5-9524-0661-0 . - ISBN 5-7589-0097-4 .
- Axelrod V.I. Konyushennaya Square and Malaya Konyushennaya Street / Axelrod V.I., Mankova A.A .. - M .: Tsentrpoligraf, 2011. - P. 30-32. - 349 p. - ISBN 978-5-227-02697-2 .