Palace Embankment
thoroughfare in Saint Petersburg, Russia
The Palace Embankment or Palace Quay (Russian: Дворцовая набережная, romanized: Dvortsovaya naberezhnaya) is a street along the Neva River in Central Saint Petersburg, Russia, which contains the complex of the Hermitage Museum buildings (including the Winter Palace), the Hermitage Theatre, the New Michael Palace, the Saltykov Mansion and the Summer Garden.
The embankment was wooden up to 1761, when Catherine the Great ordered court architect Yury Felten to build stone embankments. The street as seen nowadays was laid out between 1763 and 1767, when it used to be a preferred place of residence for the Russian nobility. The street begins at the Palace Bridge, where the Admiralty Embankment becomes the Palace Embankment, and the street ends at the Fontanka, where it becomes the Kutuzov Embankment.
The Palace Embankment is one of the main places of interest in the city as it offers a wonderful view of the Neva, the Peter and Paul Fortress and Vasilievsky Island.
Notable locations
Prachechny Bridge
Summer Garden
Upper Swan Bridge
No. 2 — Mansion of Ivan Betskoy
No. 4 — Saltykov Mansion
No. 5/1 (Millionnaya st.) — the Marble Palace, built by Antonio Rinaldi for Catherine's favourite Grigory Orlov. Since 1992 the palace is a part of the Russian Museum.
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