Marble Palace is situated between the Field of Mars and Palace Quay, slightly to the east from Winter Palace.The palace was built by Count Grigory Orlov, the favorite of Empress Catherine the Great and the most powerful Russian nobleman of the 1760s. Construction started in 1768 to designs by Antonio Rinaldi, who previously had helped decorate the grand palace at Caserta near Naples. The combination of sumptuous ornamentation with rigorously classicizing monumentality, as practiced by Rinaldi, may be attributed to his earlier work under Luigi Vanvitelli in Italy. Since marble was only discovered in Russia and exploited in the middle of the eighteenth century, the palace was unique for its day. Entry is through a courtyard charmingly topped by a small baroque tower and clock, which offsets the severity of the facade. The privacy of the courtyard allows to make different special welcome for the arriving guests, like brass orchestra to welcome the guests or the drummers, lined up on both sides, to welcome the guests.

1. MARBLE PALACE
VENUE in St. Petersburg

2. VENUE LOCATION & ACCESS
Address:
Millionaya str, 5/1
Marble Palace is one of the first Neoclassical palaces in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It is situated between the Field of Mars and Palace Quay, slightly to the east from Winter Palace.

3. EXTERIOR/ENTRANCE
The palace was built by Count Grigory Orlov, the favorite of Empress Catherine the Great and the most powerful Russian nobleman of the 1760s. The palace takes its name from its opulent decoration in a wide variety of polychrome marbles. A rough- grained Finnish granite on the ground floor is in subtle contrast to polished pink Karelian marble of the pilasters and white Urals marble of capitals and festoons. Panels of veined bluish gray Urals marble separate the floors, while Tallinn dolomite was employed for ornamental urns. In all, 32 disparate shades of marble were used to decorate the palace.

4. INTERIOR
The Main Stairs are decorated with the grey marble of the Urals and the steps are made of the dark green Karelian sandstone. In the centre of the ceiling of the stairs, the plafond The Judgement of Paris. The stone decorations of the Marble Room strike with their many colors, smartness and opulence, their perfectly worked marble, selected and arranged with impeccable style. The Marble Room is finished with seven kinds of marble originating from Greece, Italy, the Urals, Karelia, and Siberia. The room is decorated with bass reliefs by F. Shubin and M. Kozlovsky as well as with the plafond The Triumph of Venus by S. Torelli.

5. COCKTAIL
LOCATION
Welcome cocktail can be organized in the Palace courtyard with different entertainment. (classical quartet, violin player, harp player).

6. DINNER
Palace has two rooms, which can be used for the dinner:
- Marble Room. The capacity is up to 50 – 80 persons for the dinner, and about 150 persons for the reception. Rooms size 160 sq.m.

7. DINNER
- White Hall. The capacity is up to 250 persons for the dinner, and about 350 persons for the reception. Room size is 630 sq.m.
Recommended decorations for both rooms: classical

8. ARTISTS
Classical quartet
Harp player
Violin player
Ballet dances
Child prodigy
ENTERTAINMENT

9. TECHNICAL EQUIPMENT & DECORATION
RECOMMENDED
Stage not recommended
Light equipment upon request Sound equipment upon requesT

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