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The Mansion of the Minister of War is a unique estate in the city center, located in close proximity to the Mikhailovsky Castle, on the territory of the former third Summer Garden, cut down and turned into a parade ground after the transformation of the Mikhailovsky Castle into the Engineering Castle. One part of the façade faces Sadovaya Street, and the other faces Klenovaya Alley. The mansion was created according to the idea of the great reformer of the Russian army of the era of Emperor Alexander II, D.A. Milyutina. The two-story mansion (1872-1874) has a ground floor and mezzanine and has been well preserved to this day. The elegantly decorated state and private rooms of refined shapes look out onto the gardens of the Chateau d'Engineers and the Champs de Mars.

The decision to build a special mansion was made in 1872. The customer for the construction was the Minister of War, Field Marshal General D.A. Milyutin, who was appointed to this post in 1861. The building was designed by the famous architect, Professor Rudolf Bogdanovich Bernhard. Military engineer D.V. also took part in the construction. Pokotilov, and in the creation of interior decoration - architect O.G. Gippius.

The first floor of the house was intended for a small minister's office. The living rooms of D.A.’s family were also located here. Milyutina. On the second floor there were 16 ceremonial rooms, including the personal apartments of the Minister of War. In the attic, which overlooked the courtyard, there were rooms for the valet and the butler.

All living and working spaces had Dutch stoves, tiled stoves or fireplaces. The floor in the lobby and on the stairs was made of mosaic, and in the rooms there was stacked parquet. At the end of the 19th century, to ensure the safety of the minister and his family members, the living rooms were moved to the second floor of the house. The thoughtful layout of a comfortable house, unique for its time, made it possible for the minister to combine service, the work of his office with public duties and the private life of a large family in the presence of visitors, numerous employees and servants. The staircase of the mansion is painted in the Pompeian style, the hall is decorated in the style of Louis XV, the ladies' living rooms are in the style of Louis XVI, etc. The historical interiors feature beautiful sets of artistic furniture and decorative decorations for the front and living rooms of 1880-1900. This is how the house of the Minister of War remained until the 1917 revolution. All the military ministers of the Russian Empire who held this post after Count Dmitry Alekseevich Milyutin lived and worked in it.
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When the Svetlana moored to the pier of the Copenhagen port, I warmly said goodbye to its commander, Captain 1st Rank Sergei Pavlovich Shein, and began to wait for the sailors to lower the gangway. Envoy Alexander Petrovich Izvolsky and both of his secretaries in court uniforms embroidered with gold braid and white trousers were already waiting for me on the pier.

I winced at the sight of our envoy. Izvolsky was known as an ardent supporter of Russia's alliance with the Entente and an outspoken Anglophile. A person with similar views in such a position, and even where a tight anti-British knot was now being tied, was clearly superfluous. I decided to myself that Alexander Petrovich would need to be urgently moved from Copenhagen to some other place. Let's say an envoy to Siam. Or somewhere else.

On the same day, the German Foreign Minister Oswald von Richthofen arrived in Copenhagen by train as an ordinary passenger. The agreement on this visit was announced during the Kaiser’s stay in St. Petersburg. Well, the informality was due to the privacy of the upcoming negotiations, which were to take place in Copenhagen. In them I had to play the role of a peacemaking angel. I had a very difficult task ahead of me - to become a link between two countries that had long been hostile towards each other. But the art of diplomacy lay in reconciling peoples and concluding alliances, often completely incredible ones.

As had already been previously agreed, Mr. Richthofen arrived at our embassy on Bradgade-syu, where he and I cleaned up after the trip. There we began to prepare for a difficult conversation with King Christian IX, and with some other persons who actually determined the policy of the Danish kingdom.

Our audience was scheduled for two o'clock in the afternoon at the Schak mansion, one of four that were part of the complex of the Danish royal palace of Amalienborg.

At the appointed time, the king himself, his heir, Prince Frederik, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, Count Raaben-Levetzau, and Jens Christensen, the head of the ruling political party “Venstre” in Denmark, were already waiting for us there.

When Mr. Richthofen and I entered the hall where the negotiations were to take place, a tense silence hung in it.

Hotel Mansion of the Minister of War

Jens Christensen, a tall and cheerful old man with a characteristic upturned forelock of gray hair, looked belligerently at the German Foreign Minister. The flames of the battles of Dubbel and Fredericia, which took place fifty years ago, blazed in his eyes. But Christensen managed to restrain himself and greeted us. With me it’s warm, with Richthofen it’s dry and official.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, Count Raaben-Lewetzau, a gray-haired and youthful old man who looked more like a wealthy landowner than a diplomat, greeted the guests in good French.

The king nodded to us and invited us to sit down. When all the meeting participants were seated around the large round table, I stood up and handed the king a letter from his daughter, the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna.

Christian, squinting like an old man, read the message to his beloved Minnie, after which he nodded to me again. Then he addressed those present:

“Gentlemen,” he said, “we have gathered here to make an important decision.” Perhaps one of the most important during my reign. As I already said, this will be connected with a special regime for the passage of warships through the Danish Straits, and with the accession of our kingdom to the union of the Russian ... - he looked closely at von Richthofen - and the German empires.

“Gentlemen,” the king continued, addressing Raaben-Levetzau and Christensen, “you understand that I cannot unilaterally decide on Denmark’s accession to this Union. And therefore I ask you to make every effort to achieve approval in the Folketing of my decision.

“This is all wonderful, Your Majesty,” Jens Christensen broke the slightly prolonged silence, “but Denmark is a small country, and if we join the union of two great European monarchies, a third, no less great monarchy may fall upon us, with the one joining it.” republic. What will happen to our kingdom then, Your Majesty?

“Yes, we need to think about this carefully,” Count Raaben-Lewetzau said, “especially since at the beginning of the last century the ships of this island monarchy twice attacked Copenhagen and smashed the quarters of our capital with the guns of their battleships.”

“Hm,” the German minister indicated his presence at this meeting for the first time. Then he stood up and, taking out a sheet of paper from a leather folder, handed it to King Christian with a bow. “This is a message from my Emperor to you, Your Majesty,” said von Richthofen. – In it he gives guarantees of complete security for the Danish kingdom in the event of an attack on it by any of the European powers. I emphasize – anyone! – The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the German Empire looked intently into the eyes of the king.

“We once fought with you,” he said a little later, “but that war has already become the property of history and historians.” It's time to live not in the past, but in the present. Only then will we all have a chance for a happy future.

“Your Majesty,” I interrupted the slightly prolonged pause that hung after the words of the German minister, “Russia will also become the guarantor of your security.” You can be absolutely calm. Two fleets - Russian and German, our ground units, which in the shortest possible time will be transferred to Denmark in case of danger, and finally, powerful coastal batteries and mines that will be deployed by our minelayers - all this will help save Denmark from the threat of any attack another power.

“If this is so,” Jens Christensen said thoughtfully, “then it makes sense for the Folketing to approve your Majesty’s proposal.” Denmark must stop being a whipping boy when these insolent British can attack at any moment.

“Only, Mr. Minister,” he turned to Oswald von Richthofen, “before concluding an agreement to join your alliance, I would like to receive written guarantees of non-repetition of those events that were disastrous for our kingdom that occurred fifty years ago.” Do you understand what we're talking about?

This was a more than transparent allusion to the war between Denmark and Prussia, which was supported by Austria-Hungary. During that war, the Danish kingdom lost Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg.

“My emperor is ready to give such guarantees,” von Richthofen said, “and the Russian Empire will monitor their implementation.” My respected colleague will confirm this,” and the German minister nodded in my direction.

Seeing that the conversation was going in a direction favorable to us, I decided to sweeten the pill:

“Your Majesty,” I said, “I want to add that joining our alliance can give the Kingdom of Denmark not only security, but also quite material benefits.” I mean financial, economic and trade preferences, as well as the opportunity to receive large orders from the Russian military department. For example, Madsen machine guns. We have recently purchased a large batch of them. There will also be new orders for the construction of ships for the Russian fleet. We remember that the cruiser Boyarin, which was built at the Danish shipyard Burmeister og Wein, performed excellently as part of the Pacific Squadron.

Jens Christensen's eyes sparkled, and he exchanged glances with Count Raaben-Lewetzau, who had a satisfied smile on his face. And I realized that now the agreement on Denmark’s accession to the Alliance will pass in the Folketing without much difficulty.

“Mr. Durnovo, Mr. von Richthofen,” King Christian addressed us, “we will need to think carefully about your proposal again.” But I think that the decision on it will be favorable.

Von Richthofen and I bowed and left the office.

“Mr. Durnovo,” the German minister turned to me, “shouldn’t we celebrate today’s conversation in the restaurant?”

“Why not,” I said, again remembering my dashing naval youth. - I know a good place here...

Engineer and inventor Trinkler Gustav Vasilievich

St. Petersburg greeted me with ringing drops, settling snowdrifts and the loud squeaks of pugnacious spring sparrows. In Germany, which I left three days ago, having received a telegram with an invitation to come from Stepan Osipovich Makarov himself, the grass was already fully green and the sun was shining. There spring was already in full swing, but here it was just beginning.

But during the year of my absence, St. Petersburg has changed a lot. He became somehow tense and nervous. The main sign of the new time was the martial law, which was evidenced by patrols at the station that met every train arriving in the capital of the empire. In St. Petersburg, after the assassination of Emperor Nicholas II, unrest began, even a rebellion, which was suppressed quickly and brutally. In any case, this was written about in German newspapers. They wrote there about the special management order established in the city, and about the swift and ruthless actions of the new Russian special service, the GUGB, which caught the murderers and conspirators in a matter of days. To be honest, reading this was a little scary. But I went anyway, because Admiral Makarov urgently telegraphed to me that the Russian fleet was in dire need of my invention.

Literature:

Architectural monuments of Leningrad
Leningrad. Stroyizdat. Leningrad branch. 1976

Sadovaya, 4.
House of the Minister of War

After the construction of the Mikhailovsky (Engineering) Castle and the transfer of it to the Military Engineering Academy, the entire nearby territory began to belong to the military department, and the Minister of War Dmitry Alekseevich Milyutin decided to build my own house here. Dmitry Alekseevich Milyutin was the author of progressive military reforms, in particular the 1874 law on conscription in Russia, which reduced the period of soldier and sailor service from 20 years to 6 in the ground forces and to 7 in the navy. He was 56 years old. Before this, the minister did not have his own housing; he and his family lived in government apartments. Authors-builders Pokotilov Dmitry Viktorovich, von Gippius Otto Gustavovich, Bernhard Rudolf Bogdanovich.

View of the building from Sadovaya Street and other sides

Fragments of ornament on the walls of the staircase

Walls

Doors

Fireplace

Hello! Today I would like to talk about an interesting building in the center of St. Petersburg, about the mansion of the Minister of War Dmitry Alekseevich Milyutin. It is located next to the Mikhailovsky (Engineering) Castle, opposite the Mikhailovsky Garden, on Sadovaya Street. How many dozens of times have I walked or driven by, but I didn’t know that such an interesting place was hidden behind this modest-looking facade of a small two-story building.

This mansion was built in the quarter of the military engineering department in 1872-74 by architects Bernhard and von Gippius by order of the Minister of War, Field Marshal General (by the way, the last one in Russian history) Milyutin. The layout of the house, unique for its time, made it possible to combine official duties, the work of the minister's office, organize various official and private receptions, and comfortably exist for a large family. And Dmitry Alekseevich had six children. And all this in a small building at first glance.

After resigning from the post of minister in 1881, Milyutin left for the Crimea, to his estate in Simeiz, where he lived until his death in 1912 (at the age of 96 years), and was buried in the cemetery of the Novodevichy Convent in Moscow. Well, after Milyutin’s resignation, the building was used by the military department for the work of the office and for official receptions in the state rooms of the mansion. During Soviet times, the mansion building remained with the military department and was used as a closed hotel for high-ranking guests. In particular, it was here that the commission from Moscow was located, which came to investigate the murder of Kirov. And now part of the premises of the mansion, where the office and the outbuilding of the carriage house were previously located, is used as a hotel, but anyone can stay in it. The hotel is called “Minister of War Mansion.”

As you can see it is classified as a museum hotel. And, indeed, as I read from reviews of those who lived in this hotel, the administrator gives a tour of the state rooms of the mansion. Out of curiosity, I looked at the price of hotel rooms on Booking, of course, one cannot say that they are very cheap, but given the location and the building itself, these prices cannot be called expensive. A double room with breakfast will cost 4,600 rubles, and a suite - 11,000. In addition to the fact that the mansion is used as a hotel, the main halls are used by the Domino production center for theatrical excursions and concerts. We attended one of these concerts, combined with a concert called “Romance of the Silver Age”. I must say that we bought tickets for this event quite by accident. Back in April, on the day of the theater, I was on one of the sites selling tickets to theaters and concerts, selling tickets at a discount. We bought tickets for several events, and this concert caught our attention. With a nominal ticket price of 1,200 rubles, a 30 percent discount was offered. In total, the ticket cost 860 rubles. And I must say, the wonderful tour of the mansion with an interesting concert exceeded expectations. We arrived at the appointed time, we were greeted quite cordially, we were given shoe covers, and yet the historical parquet was preserved in the main halls. The excursion was led by an excellent guide, who, in addition to knowing and being able to tell about the history of both this mansion and the history of palaces and estates, why they were planned and built this way, but at the same time telling everything not just as a guide, but with great theatrical talent . Sorry I didn't remember his name. The tour began from the so-called cold lobby, located at the entrance to the building.

To the left of the staircase leading to the second floor of the mansion, where the suite of state rooms is located, there is a billiard room. Although, as the guide said, the billiard table is from the 19th century, it was previously located in another room, and in this room there was a reception room for the minister’s office, and all important dispatches and reports concerning the military department at the end of the 19th century passed through this small room. And now hotel visitors can play billiards here, for an additional fee, as I understand it.

After that, we climbed the main staircase, painted in the Pompeian style, and went up to the upper, warm vestibule.

There was once a painting on the ceiling of the main staircase, but after being hit by a high-explosive bomb during the war, it was destroyed.

In the niches of the lobby there are attractive bronze sculptures.

These surviving lamps once had gas lighting, which has now naturally been replaced by electric lighting.

The first room in the front suite is the Pink Living Room.

This is followed by the Green Drawing Room, also known as the dance hall, the largest in the mansion. But despite the fact that it is the largest, concerts are not held here. This is due to acoustics; what is suitable for a dance hall may not be suitable for a concert. As the guide said, the building has preserved a unique acoustic effect, when music plays in the dance hall, people entering the building, on the first floor, in the cold lobby, hear the music sounding as if behind them. Below are photos of the Green Living Room.

The paintings on the walls are represented by still lifes from the 1920s, when a closed military department hotel was located here.

The next room in the main suite is the Hunter's living room.

It was mostly men who gathered in this living room, unlike the Pink one, which was for women. The guide shows a preserved card table.

On the walls of the living room hang paintings made from unusual materials. I think it's something like straw.

And finally, the last of the halls of the front suite is the Blue Living Room, also known as the music room. Concerts are held in this hall with excellent acoustics.

A preserved fireplace that may still function today, with a very unusual location - in the corner of the building with a chimney built into the wall, to the side of the fireplace.

At the concert, as the name implies, romances were performed based on poems by poets of the Silver Age of Russian poetry - Yesenin, Akhmatova, Blok, Gumilyov and many others. Another advantage of the concert was that there were different genres of romance performance. The concert was opened by theater and film actor Dmitry Lebedev, with a simple “actor’s” performance of romances with a guitar.

And finally, the concert ended with a performance by opera singer Svetlana Ivanova, accompanied by a pianist. Although she has a wonderful voice, I liked her performance less than others, she sang too exaltedly.

With this, the wonderful evening at the mansion of the Minister of War, which took more than two and a half hours - more than the initially promised two, ended. If any of the residents of the city or its guests have the opportunity to visit it with a similar program (and there are several types of them within the walls of the mansion), then I can sincerely recommend doing so.

The mansion of D.A. Milyutin is located in close proximity to the Mikhailovsky Castle, on the territory of the former third Summer Garden, cut down and turned into a parade ground after the transformation of the Mikhailovsky Castle into the Engineering Castle. One part of the façade faces Sadovaya Street, and the other faces Klenovaya Alley. Despite the modesty of its facades, a very remarkable person lived in it. Minister of War, Count, Field Marshal General Dmitry Alekseevich Milyutin is familiar to many from the course of Russian history.

The Mansion of the Minister of War - a unique estate in the city center, in the quarter of the military engineering department, was created according to the idea of the great reformer of the Russian army of the era of Emperor Alexander II, D. A. Milyutin. The two-story mansion, on the ground floor and with mezzanines (1872-1874, architects R.B. Bernhard, O.G. von Gippius, military engineer D.V. Pokotilov) has been well preserved to this day. The elegantly decorated state and private rooms look out onto the gardens of the Chateau d'Engineers and the Champs de Mars.

Until 1874, military ministers were located in the former house of Lobanov-Rostovsky on St. Isaac's Square, and from July 1, 1824, the War Ministry began to rent 114 premises in this house.

In 1828, Nicholas I completely bought the building for the treasury to house the War Ministry. Ministers of War V. A. Dolgorukov (1852-1856) and N. O. Sykhozanet (l856-1861) worked there. But there were only office premises, and there was no special building where ministers could not only work, but also live with their families.

The decision to build a special mansion was made in 1872. The customer for the construction was the Minister of War, Field Marshal General D.A. Milyutin, who was appointed to this post in 1861.

Dmitry Alekseevich Milyutin is a highly educated person with great administrative abilities, a liberal by conviction, a consistent opponent of the military order that existed in the country and an active supporter of such transformations in the army, the objective meaning of which would help adapt it to new historical conditions. YES. Milyutin made a great contribution to strengthening the military ground forces and combat power of the Russian state.

Conducted under his leadership in the 1860-1870s. The military reform, which went down in history under the name Milyutin, was the largest transformation of the entire military system of the country since the reforms of Peter I.

Dmitry Alekseevich had a large family, so the layout of the house was thought out in such a way as to give the owner the opportunity to combine service, the work of his office with public duties and home life.

The building was designed by the famous architect, Professor Rudolf Bogdanovich Bernhard. Military engineer D.V. also took part in the construction. Pokotilov, and in the creation of interior decoration - the architect O. G. Gippius.

All living and working spaces had Dutch stoves, tiled stoves or fireplaces. The floor in the lobby and on the stairs was made of mosaics, in the rooms there were inlaid parquet

At the end of the 19th century, to ensure the safety of the minister and his family members, the living rooms were moved to the second floor of the house.

The thoughtful layout of a comfortable house, unique for its time, made it possible for the minister to combine service, the work of his office, with public duties and the intimate life of a large family in the presence of visitors, numerous employees and servants. The staircase of the mansion is painted in the Pompeian style, the hall is decorated in the style of Louis XV, the ladies' drawing rooms are in the style of Louis XVI, etc. The historical interiors feature beautiful sets of artistic furniture and decorative decorations for the front and living rooms of 1880-1900

This is how the house of the Minister of War remained until the 1917 revolution. All the military ministers of the Russian Empire who held this post after Count Dmitry Alekseevich Milyutin lived and worked in it.

From 1917 to 1925, the mansion was occupied by the engineering department of the Petrograd Military District. During the Great Patriotic War, the building was badly damaged. Some of the unique elements of the mansion’s interior decoration were irretrievably lost; in particular, the ceiling of the main staircase and the roof of the courtyard services building were destroyed by a direct bomb hit. During the post-war reconstruction, the artistic painting of the walls of the main staircase and the fabric upholstery of the walls of the main halls of the second floor disappeared. But even what remains today gives an idea of the richness of the decoration and the taste of the architects.

Since 1925, the building was used as a hotel for high-ranking military officials. The prosecutor's commission that investigated the murder of S.M. Kirov in 1934 stayed here. After the reconstruction of the building in 1999, here again is the hotel of the Military Council of the Leningrad Military District, which in 2009 was renamed the Mikhailovskaya Hotel. Since 2013, it has been the “Minister of War Mansion” hotel.

Despite the fact that the former premises of the office of the Minister of War of the Russian Empire and the wing of the carriage house are equipped with hotel rooms, the entire front area of the mansion is ready to host cultural events for guests and residents of St. Petersburg.

Since September 2014, the Domino Production Center offers you concerts of Russian romance, songs of officer meetings and theatrical excursions, which will take place in the living rooms of the front area of this magnificent 19th century mansion.

With the help of professional performers, you will immerse yourself for some time in the atmosphere of the aristocratic salons of the historical mansions of St. Petersburg.

Events poster for June 2017

1) "Sing, swallow, sing..."

2) "The Mansion of Count Milyutin"

3) "Romance of the Silver Age"- An evening of Russian romance with a tour of the Mansion.

4) "High Life in Mansions"

5) "The Mansion of Count Milyutin"- sightseeing tour with a mini-concert of Russian romance.

6) "The Mansion of Count Milyutin"- sightseeing tour with a mini-concert of Russian romance.

7) "Don't go, stay with me..."

8) - theatrical excursion,

9) “Cavalry guards, a short life or One evening in the N-district”- From the history of officer meetings. Concert with a tour of the Mansion.

10) "Secular secrets of Imperial Petersburg"- theatrical excursion,

11) "Burn, burn, my star…"- An evening of Russian romance with a tour of the Mansion.

12) "The Mansion of Count Milyutin"- sightseeing tour with a mini-concert of Russian romance.

13) “Don’t wake her up at dawn...”- A theatrical evening of Russian romance with a tour of the Mansion.

14) "The Mansion of Count Milyutin"- sightseeing tour with a mini-concert of Russian romance.

15) "Sing, swallow, sing..."- An evening of Russian romance with a tour of the Mansion.

16) "The Mansion of Count Milyutin"- sightseeing tour with a mini-concert of Russian romance.

17) “Spring Don’t Leave Me or Women’s Romance Yesterday and Today”- An evening of Russian romance with a tour of the Mansion.

18) "The Mansion of Count Milyutin"- sightseeing tour with a mini-concert of Russian romance.

June 18, 2017. Start 15.00

Poster of events for August 2017

1) "The Mansion of Count Milyutin"- sightseeing tour with a mini-concert of Russian romance.

2) "The Mansion of Count Milyutin"- sightseeing tour with a mini-concert of Russian romance.

3) "Sing, swallow, sing..."- An evening of Russian romance with a tour of the Mansion.

4) "Social events in Imperial Petersburg"- theatrical excursion,

5) "The Mansion of Count Milyutin"- sightseeing tour with a mini-concert of Russian romance.

August 8, 2017. Start 19.00

Recommended age: from 7 years 6+
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes

6) "The Mansion of Count Milyutin"- sightseeing tour with a mini-concert of Russian romance.

7) "Don't go, stay with me..."- Romantic evening of Russian romance with a tour of the Mansion,

8) "The Mansion of Count Milyutin"- sightseeing tour with a mini-concert of Russian romance.

9) "Burn, burn, my star…"- An evening of Russian romance with a tour of the Mansion.

10) "Social events in Imperial Petersburg"- theatrical excursion,

11) "The Mansion of Count Milyutin"- sightseeing tour with a mini-concert of Russian romance.

12) "The Mansion of Count Milyutin"- sightseeing tour with a mini-concert of Russian romance.

August 24, 2017. Start 19.00

Recommended age: from 7 years 6+
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes

13) "High Life in Mansions"- theatrical excursion,

14) "Romance of the Silver Age"- An evening of Russian romance with a tour of the Mansion.

15) "The Mansion of Count Milyutin"- sightseeing tour with a mini-concert of Russian romance.

Since June 8, 2015 a survey is conducted daily on weekdays tour of the mansion with mini-concert “Count Milyutin’s Mansion”.

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