History of St. Petersburg: Exhibition featuring Menshikov Palace opened

29 October 2011 in the Menshikov Palace, St. Petersburg, opened the exhibition “The memory of past is still alive here”.

The exhibition features a monument of culture and architecture of St. Petersburg – the palace of the first governor A. D. Menshikov which, from 1732, housed the First Cadet Corps. The exposition includes three sections which reveal the history of the Menshikov Palace, tell about an integrated scientific restoration and creation of the museum exposition. The exhibition features works of paintings, graphics, decorative and applied arts, arms and colours, books, documents and photographs, objects of numismatics and archaeology which reveal historical stages of the palace’s life, from the collections of the State Hermitage, Museums of the Moscow Kremlin, the State Russian Museum, Military & Historical Museum of Artillery, Engineers and Signal Troops, the State Museum of History of St. Petersburg, the State Memorial Museum of A. V. Suvorov. Many exhibits are displayed for the first time.

The exposition in the Menshikov Palace will be open through February 26, 2012.