Imperial houses in Poland: Spala, Skierniewice, Bialowieza

Thank you for sharing violetta!!! I really enjoyed your pics especially from Skerniewice. I've always imagined Skerniewice as a gloomy dark place an the palace there must be as well. But thanks to your pics, it dispeled my thoughts of how Skerniewice.

You`re welcome,Condecontessa !

Some more pictures of Spala (now AT LAST I know how to post pictures so I` ll do this quite often )

alexander III`s stone,this is where he hinted,look at the date-just a few weeks before his death





alexandra fedorovna`s orangerie (now a small resort)




one more picture of the imperial hotel

the English garden in Spala-I love sitting there on a bench with a book in the evening!!!!

Thank you for sharing violetta!!! I really enjoyed your pics especially from Skerniewice. I've always imagined Skerniewice as a gloomy dark place an the palace there must be as well. But thanks to your pics, it dispeled my thoughts of how Skerniewice.

Yes,skierniwice palace and the premises are lovely.the palace houses a scientific institution-an agricultural institute.one can v isit it on prior arrangement. after i`ve seen the palace  i too k a walk around the lovely garden.it was a sunny july afternoon, the flowers were blooming.and the grass had the most wonderful smell after having being exposed to the sun.paradise-like garden. in the former palace park (now a pubic garden) there is a small lovely pond...i`m not at all surprised that the romanovs chose it for their hunting residence...

the royal road.aleksandra fedorovna used to go around spala along this road  in a carriage.

this is what remained of the palace it was destroyed or,to be precise, burnt in january 1945. according to one version, it was accidentaly burnt becuse of heavy fire.according to the other version, a soviet officer ordered to BURN it after he had learnt it was the tzar`s residence. no one is able to say for certain what happened in january 1945.

BELOVEZH

the gate leading to the non-existent palace




former stables,now a hostel




this is just a picture of bialovezh-beutiful,  litttle melancholic,nature

Did the Imperial family during the 19th century ever own or visit palaces in the Krakow area?

The members of the Imperial family didn't own the palaces in the Krakow area. But probably they visited Wawel.

Krakow and surroundings was not a part of Russian Empire. It was under the Habsburgs.

another view of the spala residence, pictures taken after WWI after which the residence became the offiicil residenc ef Polish presidents, courtesy of the National Digital Archives in Warsaw. the 2nd picture taken in 1924.
the 3d one is a celebration of corpus christi - a parade in front of the residence

sorry,i posted two identical pictures.correcting my mistake

interior of the spala palace, a reading room





a bedroom




terrace

PICTURES OF A SO CALLED WHITE LIVING ROOM i( FROM THE NATIONAL DIGITAL ARCHIVES IN WARSAW), THESE PICTURES SEEM TO BE ALMOST IDENTCAL BUT THEY ARE DIFFERENT, IN FACT

Violetta,
Thanks for sharing these wonderful pictures of Spala.  I hadn't seen the interiors before.  My imagination had the interiors much more rustic and simple than the "White Living Room" pictures show them to have been.  Any more??
Thanks again.
BobG