Photo: other places, Kamenny Island, Saint Petersburg

Photo: other places, Kamenny Island, Saint Petersburg

Photo: other places, Kamenny Island, Saint Petersburg

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Kamenny Island - a Former Resort of the Russian Aristocracy

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The name of the Kamenny Island, which is translated as Stone Island, located in the Neva delta, is explained by two legends. The first legend has it that its name comes from the name of the founder of St. Petersburg - Peter the Great ("stone" in Greek means petros"). According to the second legend, there was a huge stone rising from the water as a rock, next to the island. The island's history, right from the beginning, is associated with the outstanding people of Russia.

Count Golovkin, the Grand-Chancellor of Peter the Great, was the first to take up residence on the island, while Count Bestuzhev-Ryumin took the island development seriously, having hired Rastrelli to build a palace. Later, residences of the imperial family members appeared on the island. The Neoclassical Kamennoostrovsky Palace (Kamenny Island Palace) with a luxurious garden was built for Paul I, today it houses the Talent Academy - a center of nonscholastic adult education. In the first half of the XIX century, Kamenny Island became a center of social life and was rapidly built up with the mansions of the aristocracy. A Summer Theater – the only wooden monument of neoclassical architecture in St Petersburg by now - was built here in 1827 in just 40 days. All the houses of the island were nationalized in 1918 and turned into nomenclative summer residences or institutions. Today, some of the survived houses are combined into the presidential state guest residence.

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197376, Kamenniy ostrov

GPS coordinates

59.97850853910833, 30.2872896194458

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