St. Petersburg imperial country residences news

Gatchina museum recreated a slide from the Arsenal Hall of the Gatchina Palace

New exhibitions:

Tsarskoe Selo
PHOTOGRAPHIC ATELIER OF TSARSKOE SELO (Upper Bathhouse)
http://eng.tzar.ru/shows/show/?id=3065

TREASURES FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION (Zubov Wing)
http://eng.tzar.ru/shows/show/?id=3061

ALEXANDER I AND NAPOLEON. PEACE BEFORE WAR (Alexander Palace)
http://eng.tzar.ru/shows/show/?id=3046

YEAR 1812 IN WORKS FROM PRIVATE COLLECTIONS OF MOSCOW AND ST PETERSBURG (Alexander Palace)
http://eng.tzar.ru/shows/show/?id=3042

Peterhof
GERMAN ENGRAVING XVII-XIX CENTURIES (The Benois Family Museum)
http://www.peterhofmuseum.ru/page.php?id=234&detail=7

GERMAN PLAYING CARDS (Museum of Playing Cards)

Strelna
SECRETS of SAINT-PETERSBURG - EXPOSITION of the ITEMS of “NARYSHKINS’ TREASURE” (Konstantin Palace)
http://www.konstantinpalace.ru/index.php?menu=52&id=57&lng=1&news=1965

Gatchina
UNKNOWN GATCHINA (Priory Palace)
http://gatchinapalace.ru/en/events/exhibitions/255/

Alexander Palace books

1. Short catalog of the museum of the Alexander palace by G. Loukomski. Petrograd. 1918
2. Guarding of the tsars residence by V. Yakovlev. Leningrad. 1926
3. Detskoe Selo. Alexander palace. Leningrad. 1927
4. Alexander palace-museum in Detskoe Selo by V. Yakovlev. Leningrad. 1927
5. Alexander palace-museum in Detskoe Selo. Decoration by V. Yakovlev. Leningrad. 1928
6. Residence of the last Romanovs by E. Bach. Leningrad. 1928
7. Les demeures des tsars by G. Loukomski. Paris. 1929
8. Detskoe Selo. Alexander palace-museum by N. Fomin. Leningrad. 1934
9. Detskoe Selo. Alexander palace-museum by N. Fomin. Leningrad. 1935
10. Alexander palace and park in Pushkin by A. Savitskaya. Leningrad. 1937
11. Alexander palace-museum and park in Pushkin town by A. Savitskaya. Leningrad. 1939
12. Alexander palace by I. Bott and V. Faybisovich. St. Petersburg. 1997
13. Tsarskoe Selo. Alexander palace by L. Bardovskaya. St. Petersburg. 2005
14. Tsarskoe Selo. Alexander palace. Pages of history by L. Bardovskaya. St. Petersburg. 2008
15. Tsars cross. Exhibition in the Alexander palace. St. Petersburg. 2008
16. Alexander palace by L. Bardovskaya, V. Plaude, I. Stepanenko. St. Petersburg. 2010
17. In the children`s rooms of the Alexander palace. St. Petersburg. 2011
18. Palaces and estates. Alexander palace. Moscow. 2011



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I can add:

19. Alexander palace. Detskoe Selo by A. Savitskaya. Leningrad. 1936
20. Alexander palace. Materials of IV Tsarskoselskaya Conference. St. Petersburg. 1998
21. Alexander palace by V. Yakovlev. St. Petersburg. 2010. (reprint)

Good news!

White Tower – first restored pavilion in the Alexander Park! All six floors are open for visitors! And the roof! (White Tower is the highest building at Tsarskoe Selo - 38 meters.

http://eng.tzar.ru/info/newsarchive?id=3113
http://eng.tzar.ru/museums/palaces/alexander_park/landscape_park/white_tower

I'm quite surprised that they have survived all this time but also rather impressed. Something else to add to my places to see when I get there

Tsarskoe Selo Museum opened Mountain Hall, Large Library and Small Library without restoration. New open halls in the Alexander Palace connect the central halls and the rooms of Nicholas and Alexandra.

Door from the Portrait Hall to the Mountain Hall


Mountain Hall


Large Library


Small Library with open door to the Alexandra`s Formal Reception Room

Thanks! Even without full restoration, they look pretty good. Any idea if they will continue to fix them up?

Night of Museums at Alexander Palace!

On May 18th, 2013, Tsarskoye Selo will join St. Petersburg’s Night of Museums.

Alexander Palace. Living Details programme:

First time on display: Prints of the 48 autochrome plates of the palace in 1917, the shots taken right after the Tsar’s family left for exile.

Bio of the art historian George Loukomski, in 1917-18 the Head of the Art Commission that worked on turning the Tsarskoye Selo palaces into the museums.

History of the Palace Library from Catherine II to Nicholas II, with the marginal notes in books personally hand-written by Catherine, Alexander I and other crowned owners of the collection.

Entry hours: 18.00–23.00, Admission: Rub 200

http://eng.tzar.ru/info/info-events/title/?id=3188