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06.07.2022

Alexander Palace
Sunday 10 July
4 p.m.

SILVIO DAGNINI, COURT ARCHITECT OF NICHOLAS I
special palace tour with a mandolin concert

For a group of maximum 30
(group to gather by the Main Gate near the Palace)
Tickets ₽ 1,500 on our website

The tour commemorates 155th birth anniversary of Silvio Dagnini, who was born on 1 July 1867 and became the last court architect of the Romanovs.

Our visitors will learn about Dagnini's life, work principles, and projects realised at the Alexander Palace and in the town of Tsarskoe Selo. The architect's father played the mandolin and often performed together with his children who played the piano.

After a walk through the recently restored private rooms of Emperor Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra, visitors will enjoy a baroque mandolin concert of Ekaterina Zabairachnaya playing pieces by Italian composers.in one of the library halls of the palace.