On June 20 a solo concert of the Orenburg chamber choir will be held in the White hall of the St. Petersburg state institute of culture. The institute is located in two buildings on Dvortsovaya Embankment in the center of the Northern Capital.
It is a little story about the building where music performed by the Orenburg chamber choir will sound …
Before revolution of 1917 these beautiful mansions belonged to representatives of the highest nobility of the Russian Empire. In them the rich social life boiled. A specific place in her was held by balls. Balls have reached the blossoming in the Russian culture in the first half of the 19th century.
In 1830 Nicholas I has granted Pyotr Georgiyevich Oldenburgsky, Paul I's grandson, the member of the State Council, senator, the patron, the palace (Dvortsovaya Emb., 2) which flaunts in the downtown and comes the facades to Neva Embankment, the Summer garden and the Field of Mars. The architect V.P. Stasov anew has reconstructed him for the new owner. 87 years this palace was a patrimonial nest of princes Oldenburg, members of the Russian Imperial House. In October, 1796 Catherine II in acknowledgement of education of the beloved grandson, future emperor Alexander I has presented the mansion (Dvortsovaya Emb., 4) to the count Nicholas Ivanovich Saltykov.
The house is built in style of strict classicism on the project of the most great architect Giacomo Quarenghi in 1784-1788. Mansions on Palace were one of sign places where events of high society were held.
It is for certain known that in February, 1831 the emperor Nicholas I with the spouse Aleksandra Fyodorovna have attended a ball at Fikelmonov, owners of the mansion of that time. Receptions in the house Fikelmonov remained in memory of those to whom has had the luck to participate in them. Balls, masquerades, musical and literary soirees, secular receptions replaced each other. Jokes alternated a serious talk. On noisy masquerades and balls when the White hall was lit by hundreds of fires, there were A.S. Pushkin, N.N. Goncharova, P.A. Vyazemsky and др …
We wait for you to the address: Dvortsovaya Emb., 4, White and Malachite halls (lecture hall 4303, 4304).
In the program of a concert the Russian choral music of three centuries will sound.