The Catherine Palace is a Rococo palace located in the town of Tsarskoye
Selo (Pushkin), 25 km southeast
of St. Petersburg. It was the summer residence of the Russian tsars.
(L) Admiralteyskiy prospekt (R) Moskovskiye Vorota square
It is necessary to do to south towards the Pulkovo Airport. There are many
condominiums along the highway.
The Catherine Palace is named after Catherine I, the wife of Peter the
Great, who ruled Russia for two
years after her husband's death. Originally, a modest two-storey building
commissioned by Peter for
Catherine in 1717, the Catherine Palace owes its awesome grandeur to their
daughter, Empress
Elizabeth, who chose Tsarskoe Selo as her chief summer residence. Starting
in 1743, the building was
reconstructed by four different architects, before Bartholomeo Rastrelli,
Chief Architect of the Imperial
Court, was instructed to redesign completely the building on a scale to
rival Versailles.
(L) Many tourists were waiting for permission to entry. Catherine Palace
limits the time of an individual visitor.
An individual visitor with tickets: noon to 2 pm and 4 to 6 pm. All other
times are reserved for organized groups.
Admission fee: 320 Rubles per person
(R) Orchestra welcomed visitors at the entrance of the palace.
Admission ticket to the Catherine Palace
Map of the Tsarskoye Selo area in 1858
(L) Catherine Palace & Cameron Gallery (R) The main entrance to Catherine
Palace in Tsarskoye Selo
(L) Catherine Palace (R) Catherine $B-6(B by Fyodor Rokotov
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A golden-edged fireplace and Portrait hall of Catherine Palace
(L) Painted ceiling of the Great Hall of Catherine Palace (R) Catherine Palace ball room
Amber Room of Catherine Palace
Amber Room of Catherine Palace
Photography and video-taking are strictly prohibited in the Amber Room
of Catherine Palace.
These pictures are the copies from Wikipedia ( public domain ).
The painting on the wall is reminiscent of the glory of those days.
(L) Four daughters of the Russian Imperial Romanov family: This pictures
was taken when the writer visited Catherine Palace.
(R) Romanov family: (From left to right) - Olga, Maria, Nicholas II, Alexandra,
Anastasia, Alexei, and Tatiana.
This was pictured at Livadia Palace in 1913. Who will know the tragic fate
that attacked in five years?
The Russian Imperial Romanov family (Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Tsarina
Alexandra and their five children-
Olga (age22),Tatiana (age21), Maria (age19), Anastasia (age 17), and Alexei,
and all those who chose to
accompany them into exile notably Eugene Botkin, Anna Demidova, Alexei
Trupp and Ivan Kharitonov
were shot in Yekaterinburg on 17 July 1918. The execution of the Tsar and
his family was carried out by
the Ural Soviet which was led by Yakov Yurovsky. The action was ordered
by the government in Moscow
by Vladimir Lenin and Yakov Sverdlov to prevent the rescue of the Imperial
Family by approaching white
forces, anti-communism, during the ongoing Russian Civil War.
Reference: Wikipedia
There are many differing theories about the fate of the Amber Room, which
can be categorized into two
basic types. One is that the room was destroyed in the war between the
Grman and the Soviet Union;
the second is that the room survived the war but was hidden. The lack of
hard evidence and the numerous
conflicting testimonies from public and secret sources has either supported
or denied these theories.
Many different persons and groups, including a number of entities from
the governments of the Soviet
Union and East Germany, have mounted extensive searches for it at various
times since the war, but
without success.
Starting in 1979, and lasting for 24 years, a new Amber Room reconstruction
effort began at Tsarskoye
Selo. Using original drawings and old black-and-white photographs, every
attempt was made to duplicate
the past Amber Room. This included the 350 shades of amber in the original
panels and fixtures that
adorned the room.
Pavlovsk Palace
Pavlovsk Palace is an 18th-century Russian Imperial residence built by
Paul I of Russia in Pavlovsk,
near Saint Petersburg. After his death, it became the home of his widow,
Maria Feodorovna.
The palace and the large English garden surrounding it are now a Russian
state museum and public
park. It is located about 32 km south from Saint Petersburg.
(L) Courtyard of Pavlovsk Palace (R) The main entrance to the palace
(L) Admission ticket for the Pavlovsk Palace (M) A private tour-guide to
Catherine Palace and Pavlovsk Palace
(R) Autumn and yellow birch and still river Pavlovsk
(L) Egyptian Vestibule (R) Curved hall, Pavlovsk Palace
(L) Curved hall, Pavlovsk Palace (R) A great painting shown on the wall
of Pavlovsk Palace
Egyptian furniture and Circle Ceiling of the Pavlovsk Palace
(L) The throne room, Pavlovsk Palace (R) Dome of a hall of Pavlovsk Palace
Bedroom of Empress in the Pavlovsk Palace
(L) Church Gallery of Pavlovsk Palace was designed as the hall of antiquities.
(R) German attacked the Soviet Union in June 1941. As the Germans approached,
the park and Palace came under bombardment.
(L) A unique wooden-structure restaurant at Detskoye Selo, 2.7 km north
to the palace, along the railway track
The birthday celebration with President Vladimir Putin was told held at
this place.
(R) A road gate nearby Khabarovsk Palace
A railroad which is crossing at Peterburgskoye Road, Leningradskaya oblast.
A gauge size of Russian railways is 1,520 mm.
The wheelsets of Allegro express trains are built to run on both the Finnish
1,524 mm and the Russian 1,520 mm gauge.
In the railways of Sweden, Norway, Germany, France, and other European
countries adopt a standard 1,435 mm gauge.
(L)Detskoye Selo railway station bound to Vitebsk train station, Saint
Peterburg
(R) Vitebsk train station
(L) On the road returning to Saint Petersburg (R)The House of Books, downtown
Saint Petersburg has come into view in front of us.
In 1918, the central government bodies moved from Saint Petersburg (then
named Petrograd) to Moscow.
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