Konstantinov palace before restoration in 2001, photo by Sergej Grachev/ The St. Petersburg Times
From the 2001 article
http://www.sptimes.ru/index.php?acti...story_id=14732
Quote:
By Viktoria Uzdina and Aleksei Germanovich
Vedomosti
The Presidential Administration says the reconstruction of the Konstantinov Palace in Strelnya could cost up to $170,000,000.
The head of the Presidential Administration, Vladimir Kozhin, announced Sunday that the cost of reconstructing the Konstantinov Palace in Strelnya, just outside the city, which has been chosen as the St. Petersburg residence for President Vladimir Putin at $150 million to 170 million. The funds are to coome from private donors, but no major business representatives have yet offered to step forward and help with the project.
Vadim Znamyonov, director of the Petrodvorets museum, in an attempt to save the palace, proposed using the structure as the St. Petersburg presidential residence to Putin's personal administration last fall. The residence itself, looking on to the Gulf of Finland, has an area of 4,800 square meters and was built by the architect Bartholomew Rastrelli. The 240-hectare palace grounds also include a 500-square-meter stable and an array of other surrounding buildings. In 1990 UNESCO included the Konstantinov complex in its list of globally important architectural structures.
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I beleive I've seen the number of $300 mln as the price tag for this restoration.
The Palace has been the site of July 2006 G-8 meeting
August 2007, photo by
Advocate
First Putin's car and the vehicle used by big bosses to drive around the estate during G-8
