Opera House

At Rinaldi could not but influence Russian culture, Russian art masters who worked in St. Petersburg, the monuments of ancient architecture and the very architecture of the young Russian capital, which combines the principles of a regular (straight lay) with a living sense of nature and with characteristic Russian architect the freedom and power of the grand spatial compositions. Rinaldi made a great contribution to the development Russian architecture. The ease of entering the architect of Russian architecture and its success was not accidental, because for the Russian Baroque, unlike the European, with its complex spatial composition, is characterized by beat greater simplicity and clarity of the solution. Therefore, the transition from baroque to classicism in Russian architecture was not necessary to overcome the alien classicism complex and broken tracks. Rinaldi found in Russia friendly ground for the work. If, however, he often preferred to more complex spatial decision interiors than Rastrelli, this was manifested the peculiarity of taste and talent Rinaldi.

He was already forty-three years, when the hetman Malorossii K. Razumovsky invited him into his possession, intending to create an administrative center getmanstva - City Baturin. This ambitious plan was not implemented. Three years later, built for only one Razumovsky Palace, Rinaldi in 1754 sent to St. Petersburg. In the first decade of residence in St. Petersburg Rinaldi his creative interests are focused on building a Oranienbaum Palace of Peter III, the Opera House and an ensemble Its own problem with its main buildings - the Chinese Palace and slopes.