Abstract
<jats:p>The aim of this study is to interpret the allegorical program of the paintings in the Louis XIV Room in the museum of the Central School of Drawing of Baron Stieglitz (currently the Museum of Applied Arts of the St. Petersburg State Academy of Art and Design named after A. L. Stieglitz). The article emphasizes that this room, like others in the museum, is a striking example of an interior from the historicist era, which sought to recreate the aesthetics and forms of classical European artistic styles. The scientific novelty of the research lies in the fact that, based on a systematic analysis of all the pictorial compositions of the Louis XIV Room, the semantic unity of the allegorical program of the paintings has been identified for the first time in art-historical practice. This program not only copies Western European models but adapts them to represent the idea of patronage of the arts, which corresponds to the educational function of the museum.</jats:p>