Derzhavin Palace, Biographical museum on Fontanka River Embankment, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Derzhavin Palace is a classicist mansion on the Fontanka Embankment in Saint Petersburg made up of several connected structures. The complex contains columns, stone galleries, decorated rooms with period furnishings, and a landscaped garden featuring water features in the rear area.

Maria Zakharova began a stone house on the Fontanka plot; Gavrila Derzhavin bought the unfinished building in 1791 and added wings, with Nikolay Lvov taking part in the reconstruction. In 1846 A. M. Gornostayev rebuilt it for the Roman Catholic Spiritual College, adding Corinthian pilasters and completing the wings. The museum opened on 28 May 2003.

Derzhavin's poems "To the First Neighbour" (1780) and "To the Second Neighbour" (1791) take the mansion and its building as their subject, addressed to the tax farmer M. S. Golikov and Colonel M. A. Garnovsky. After 1811 the double-height hall in the west wing hosted the society "Conversation of Lovers of the Russian Word".

The museum is organized across sixteen rooms displaying manuscripts, rare books, furniture, artworks, and a reconstructed study of the period. Allow time to explore the smaller adjoining spaces, as they reveal details about everyday life in that era.

The mansion hosted the literary society Lovers of the Russian Word starting in 1811, holding meetings in its two-story hall. This gathering marked the space as a crucial place in the development of Russian literary culture.