Marble Palace

Plan Your Visit

Regular public visits

Published weekly hours: 10:00–19:00 except Tuesday; ticket office closes one hour earlier. Check temporary closures and the exhibition programme.

Visit scope: Marble Palace museum and exhibition route; individual room coverage may vary.

Source review: 2026-10-09. Live availability not checked.

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Current catalogue visitor information: this section supersedes any earlier access summary below or above.

Palace Profile & Official Website

Marble Palace is recorded as Noble Palace → Grand-Ducal Palace. Location: Saint Petersburg. Originally built for Count Grigory Orlov; from 1796 onward a residence of Romanov grand dukes

Summary from the existing catalogue; the historical description has not been fully re-audited in this release.

Official website / visitor information

Access: open regularly. Published weekly hours: 10:00–19:00 except Tuesday; ticket office closes one hour earlier. Check temporary closures and the exhibition programme.

Sources

• Marble Palace
• Marble Palace — Grand-Ducal Period

Annual Visitor Statistics

No verified annual attendance figures have been entered. This does not mean zero visitors or that no statistics exist.

Interiors and collections

A gift that became a grand-ducal residence

Catherine II commissioned Antonio Rinaldi’s palace in 1768–1785 as a gift for Count Grigory Orlov. Orlov died before its completion. The palace subsequently passed into the imperial family, becoming the residence of successive grand dukes. Its rooms therefore reflect several generations of use rather than only the original eighteenth-century commission.

Brullov’s interiors and the poet’s apartments

Alexander Brullov’s reconstruction of 1844–1849 changed the second-floor layout and the decoration of both state and residential rooms. A winter garden replaced the earlier hanging garden. Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich inherited the palace in 1892 and lived in ground-floor apartments facing Millionnaya Street. Part of their decoration survives, and a memorial display introduces the grand duke as the poet who wrote under the initials K. R. These rooms connect the building’s domestic history with its literary associations.

Historic rooms and later museum collections

The Russian Museum’s palace presentation includes the main staircase, Marble Room, White Room and Winter Garden. Its exhibition programme also includes the Ludwig gift of twentieth-century art and the Rzhevsky brothers’ collection, donated in December 1998. These museum collections should not be mistaken for the personal possessions of the palace’s imperial residents. Consult the official palace page and ticket selection for the exhibitions and rooms available on your visit; the published regular closing day is Tuesday.

Architect of the nineteenth-century reconstruction: Alexander Brullov

Official sources

• Russian Museum: palace commission, interiors gallery and collections
• Russian Museum: grand-ducal owners, reconstruction and visitor information

Sources checked 10 October 2026.