Editing Alexander Bezborodko (section)

== Residences ==
===Bezborodko Palace in Saint Petersburg===
[[File:Bezborodko Palace in Saint Petersburg - southern facade main entrance.JPG|thumb|Bezborodko Palace, southern façade (Pochtamskaya ulitsa), four granite columns that remained from the original Quarenghi design.]]

The Bezborodko Palace is located at Pochtamtsky Pereulok in Saint Petersburg.

The palace was built in 1783–1795 to a design by Giacomo Quarenghi. There emerged a palace designed according to the principles of Russian Classicism.  While the façade of the mansion looked fairly modest, its interiors were notable for their resplendence. The interior decoration has partly survived till today. The façade however has changed much since its erection. Only a portico of four granite columns survived from the original façade. After the count's death his heirs sold the palace to the Post-Office Department that adapted the building to its needs. In 1924 the building was given into the possession of the Museum of communications. During the siege it suffered badly from artillery bombardments and was closed for repair. The museum partly resumed its display only in 1950. In 1974 owing to a drastic state of the entire structure its major repair was started and the museum has returned to the building only thirty years later, in 2003.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title = Saint Petersburg Palaces - History, Architecture, Owners|last = Antonov & Popova & Raskin|first = Boris Antonov & Natalia Popova & Abram Raskin|publisher = Novator|year = 2013|isbn = 978-5-93893-733-8|location = Saint Petersburg|pages = 190–191}}</ref>

===Bezborodko Dacha in Saint Petersburg===
[[File:Bezborodko Dacha in Saint Petersburg - facade.JPG|thumb|Bezborodko Dacha, central building]]

The dacha is located at Sverdlovskaya Naberezhnaya in Saint Petersburg.<ref name=":0" />

The dacha was built in 1783–1784 to a design by Giacomo Quarenghi. It is a central three-storey building with round turrets in the corners, joined with arched galleries to two symmetrical side wings. In the first half of the 19th century the side wings were linked by a chain railing held in the mouths of twenty-nine cast-iron lions. There used to be a large landscape park with pavilions.