The Russian Museum

The aim of the program is to create in the historical center of St. Petersburg the unique architecture and art museum complex that has no analogies on the base of the first in Russia the State Museum of national fine art - the Russian Museum of Emperor Alexander III and its palaces, buildings and territories.

Content of the complex

In the State Russian Museum operative administration:

1. The world largest collection of Russian fine art (384676 artworks of the 10th - 20th centuries).
2. The Mikhailovsky Palace - the museum main building, monument of Classicism archi- tecture (architect Karl Rossi, 1819 - 1825).
3. The Rossi Wing (architect Karl Rossi, 1819-1825).
4. The Benois Wing - architectural monument of the beginning of the 20th century (architects L.N.Benois, S.O.Ovsjannikov, 1914-1920).
5. The Stroganov Palace - monument of baroque architecture (architect Bartolomeo Rastrelli, 1753)
6. Michael's (Engineers') Castle - architectural monument of the end of the 18th - begin- ning of the 19th century (architects Vincenzo Brennah, Vasily Bazhenov, 1797 - 1800).
7. The Marble Palace - monument of the Early Classicism architecture (architect Antonio Rinaldi, 1768 - 1785).
8. Pavlovsk, the "Farm" pavillion (architect Carlo Rossi, 1834), hotel, rest house.

In the stage of transferring to the State Russian Museum operative administration:

1. The Mikhailovsky Garden (the Mikhailovsky Palace territory) - monument of land- scape architecture of the 18th - 19th centuries.
2. The Michael's (Engineers') castle territory - monument of engineering and fortification building of the end of the 18th - beginning of the 19th centuries.
3. The Michael's (Engineers') Castle gardens.
4. House No 19 on the Nevsky Prospect (architect P.S.Sadovnikov, 1756).
5. House No 2-b on the Griboedov Canal Embankment (1819-1825).
6. The Eastern Corps de Guards Pavillion of the Michael's (Engineers') castle (architects Vincenzo Brennah, Vasily Bazhenov, 1797-1800).
7. The Western Corps de Guards Pavillion of the Michael's (Engineers') castle (architects Vincenzo Brennah, Vasily Bazhenov, 1797-1800).