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Gothic Chapel in Peterhof is an

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in the name of Saint

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situated in the

Alexandria Park Alexandria ( or ; ar, ٱلْإِسْكَنْدَرِيَّةُ ; grc-gre, Αλεξάνδρεια, Alexándria) is the second largest city in Egypt, and the largest city on the Mediterranean coast. Founded in by Alexander the Great, Alexandria ...

Petergof Petergof (russian: Петерго́ф), known as Petrodvorets () from 1944 to 1997, is a municipal town in Petrodvortsovy District of the federal city of St. Petersburg, located on the southern shore of the Gulf of Finland. The town hosts ...

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. It was designed at the request of

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Karl Friedrich Schinkel Karl Friedrich Schinkel (13 March 1781 – 9 October 1841) was a Prussian architect, city planner and painter who also designed furniture and stage sets. Schinkel was one of the most prominent architects of Germany and designed both neoclassica ...

Gothic Revival Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic, neo-Gothic, or Gothick) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England. The movement gained momentum and expanded in the first half of the 19th century, as increasingly ...

style in 1829 and consecrated in July 1834. Prior to the

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this Gothic structure functioned as the private family church of the

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. The church, complementing the Alexandria Park Cottage, a summer residence built by

Adam Menelaws Adam Menelaws, also spelled Menelas (born between 1748 and 1756, presumably in Edinburgh – died 31 August 1831 in Saint Petersburg, russian: Адам Адамович Менелас) was an architect and landscape designer of Scottish origin, ...

in 1826–1829, was erected in 1831–1834 under direction of Adam Menelaws and

Ludwig Charlemagne Ludwig Ivanovich Charlemagne, or Sharleman (Russian: Людвиг Иванович Шарлемань, 1784, Saint Petersburg — 16 November 1845, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian architect of French ancestry. He is sometimes referred to as Lodov ...

. The sculptor

Vasily Demut-Malinovsky Vasily Ivanovich Demut-Malinovsky was a Russian sculptor whose works represent the quintessence of the Empire style. Biography He entered the Imperial Academy of Arts at the age of six and studied under Mikhail Kozlovsky for fifteen years. Upon ...

designed 43 copper figures lining the walls. The

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was designed and painted by

Carl Timoleon von Neff Carl Timoleon von Neff, also Timofey Andreyevich Neff (russian: Тимофей Андреевич Нефф, – ) was a Russian Imperial artist of Baltic German descent. Biography Carl Timoleon von Neff was born at a manor house in Neu-Isenho ...

. Later, in 1860s, the church acquired copies of paintings by the same artist; it housed numerous icons donated by the Romanovs. Most of this art perished in

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; the interior was not restored until 1998. During the reburial of Empress Maria Fyodorovna in September 2006, her coffin was brought to the chapel which served as her home church during the reign of Alexander III. A funeral service was held in the church on September 27.

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