Dish of the Imperial court chapel (?), 1912

The history of the chapel dates back to 1476, when the decree of Ivan III in Moscow was formed the sovereign Choir singing clerks. In 1713 by decree of Peter I the sovereign singing deacons was introduced in the organized in 1701 the Court choir. In 1763, under Catherine II, the choir received the title of Imperial court chapel, surviving until 1917. over the years, the choir managed such vydayuschiesya singers and musicians like M. F. Poltoratsky, D. Bortnyansky, F. P. lions, M. A. Balakirev. The choir is now under the name of State academic Capella of St. Petersburg. Since the nineteenth century and to this day it occupies a complex of buildings facing one side on the river embankment (building 20) and the other on Bolshaya Konyushennaya street (building 11). The building of the chapel, rebuilt in the 1880s, became one of the business cards of St. Petersburg. In 1856, when the chapel was opened to the Regency, and in 1858 the instrumental classes, which in 1946 was established the Choir school, in 1955 a separate school. Thus, exactly one hundred years, the chapel was not only choir, but also musical school. Apparently, to his pupils in 1912, on the eve of the 100th anniversary of the choir, and was ordered this plate, a crown and the acronym which can be deciphered as "the Imperial court Cappella". As for Gothic font, such until the 1920s, very frequently used in music publications and was their sort of a distinctive feature.