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Montbijou Palace

Montbijou Palace no longer exists. It was built in the Rococo style in the Monbijou park and belonged first to the Prussian ruling dynasty of the Hohenzollern, and later to the family of the emperor of Germany.

Monbijou Palace (Schloss Monbijou) after 1735

The Montbijou Palace (Schloss Monbijou) no longer exists. It was built in Berlin from 1649 to 1706 in the Monbijou park in the Rococo style and belonged to the originally Prussian ruling Hohenzollern dynasty, and later to the family of the German emperor. During World War II it was destroyed and, like much of the Hohenzollern heritage, was not restored. In 1960, the ruins of the palace were finally demolished.

The name Montbijou came from the French mon bijou - "my pearl" and was given to the palace by analogy with the French entertainment pavilions.

The rich history of Montbijou

The history of the palace was very eventful. In this cozy house, surrounded by a small park with a swimming pool, during his visit to Germany the Russian Tsar Peter I stayed. At the same time, the retinue of the Russian emperor literally defeated the chambers reserved for her. The emperor’s daughter wrote in her diary: “The real Jerusalem devastation reigns here; it seems to me that the queen will have to redo all this.”

Montbijou Palace until 1735

When the Montbijou palace was still under construction, at the personal request of Frederick I, Gottfried Wolfram, the famous Danish amber carving master, arrived in Berlin. He was to create an amber office in the palace. But the king did not agree with the carver. The work was entrusted to local craftsmen who used sketches by Andreas Schluter.

The legendary cabinet was completed in 1711, and a few years later the visit of the Russian emperor took place. Peter I, as usual, presented rich gifts and Friedrich-Wilhelm answered accordingly, giving the Russians a gilded yacht and amber decoration from the Monbijou palace. This gift was considered too luxurious, even for the royal level. Either the power of Russian weapons influenced, or the charm of Peter I is unknown.

The Russians got another picture that originally adorned one of the drawing rooms of the palace - “The Exit of Princess Lignitz to Charlottenburg Park” by Franz Krueger. Tsar Nicholas I liked this artist, and many of his paintings are kept in the Hermitage. The canvas in 1942 fell, along with other paintings in a repository in the area of ​​the Friedrichshain park on the outskirts of Berlin. After the war, the contents of the vaults turned out to be in Moscow and St. Petersburg, but the masterpiece from Montbijou went to Kyrgyzstan, where it was until very recently an unknown collector wished to return it to its rightful owners - the Brandenburg Parks and Museums Fund.

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