In 1910 Countess O.V. Gogenfelsen, the wife of Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich, bought a luxurious country house in Pashkov Lane. Among former owners there was State Councilor I.D. Chertkov, a house was built and a garden was laid out under him, the wife of General Pashkov, N.M. Polovtseva and her heirs. In 1911-1912 on the place of the old broken house the now being palace was built to the design of the architect K.K. Schmidt. The complex included the palace with fence and gate, service wings and a couch-house were at a distance of the palace (7/20 Moscow Lane). Since 1918 a museum and the museum fund warehouse were placed in the palace, where Tsarskoye Selo collectors’ rarities were saved. In the 1950s the palace was adapted to the educational institute, now it is the Military Engineering Building Institute. The bronze bust of the Hero of the USSR military engineer D.M. Karbyshev was installed in the palace portico. The bust was created by the sculptor V.I. Ingal in the middle of the 1960s and moulded at the plant “Monumentskulpture”. Gogenfelzen, O.V. , countess
Ingal Vladimir Iosifovich
Schmidt Karl Karlovich