El Ibhotwe leMarble Sisikhumbuzo sokwakha esikhethekileyo ukusuka kwisiqingatha sesibini senkulungwane ye-18.Yakhiwe kwindawo yePeter the Great Post Shipyard, ibe yindawo entle yokundwendwela kwisixeko Petersburg.
Ukwakhiwa kwebhotwe, kwaqala ngo-1768, kwagqitywa iminyaka eli-17 kwaye kwagqitywa ngo-1785. Ezona zinto zingundoqo zokwakha zangaphandle kunye nokuhonjiswa kwangaphakathi kwesakhiwo yayililitye lendalo: inyengane nemabhile enemibala eyahlukeneyo, enika ibhotwe imvelaphi eyahlukileyo kwaye kamva igama leMarble Palace lanikwa.
I-Marble Palace iyothusa ngobunewunewu bayo, ubungangamsha bezinto zangaphakathi kunye nobuhle bomhombiso oqingqiweyo kunye nomfanekiso. Nangona kunjalo, umnini wokuqala webhotwe uGrigory Orlov akabubonanga ubungangamsha bawo. Usweleke e-1783 xa umhombiso wangaphakathi webhotwe ungagqitywanga.
Kude kube uCatherine II wayithenga kwiindlalifa zikaGrigori Orlov kwaye wayinika umzukulwana wakhe u-Grand Duke uConstantine Konstantinovich kumsitho womtshato wakhe neNkosazana uJuliana Henrietta waseSaxxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. Wamkela ubuKristu baseMpuma waza wafumana igama elithi Anna Fedorovna.
Ke ngo-1832 uMlawuli uNicholas ndanika i-Marble Palace unyana wakhe wesibini, u-Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich. Owona msebenzi upheleleyo wokwakha ngokutsha onxulumene negama lika-Alexander Brullov uqhubeke ukusukela ngo-1848 ukuya kowe-1851.
Ngaphandle kokuqhubeka nokwakhiwa kwakhona, eso sakhiwo sasiyingozi; Umhombiso ogciniweyo kubandakanya imijelo yomnyango kunye nomgangatho weparquet wawuchithwe ngo-1830. Umakhi wezakhiwo wakhetha ukugcina ubuso bangaphandle bendlu, ngelixa wayeyila kwakhona izindlu zangaphakathi zamagumbi aseburhulumenteni eMarble Palace, apho wayethanda iRateissance Rateissance, iGothic, rococo kunye neklasikhi.