St. Petersburg imperial country residences news

Peterhof

New exhibition in the Upper Garden. German photographs from the private archives. 1941-1943.





Photos:
http://www.peterhofmuseum.ru/page.php?id=26&album=124

Video:
http://www.rtr.spb.ru/vesti/vesti_2011/news_detail.asp?id=4932
http://topspb.tv/news/news1599/
http://www.ntv.ru/novosti/237364/

Tsarskoe Selo

The museum is restoring the Agate Rooms.

Video: http://eng.tzar.ru/info/info-events/title/?id=3013

Is there an exhibition catalogue available for the German photographs of Peterhof?

No, there is not. But they published a book-album with German photographs of Peterhof, Gatchina, Pavlovsk and TS.

New book in English:
Palaces Destroyed by B.Irincheev and D.Zhukov. St.Petersburg, 2011. (German photographs of Peterhof, Gatchina, Pavlovsk and Tsarskoe Selo in 1941-1944.)

Fire in the Catherine Palace http://s017.radikal.ru/i427/1111/c7/a933b4ca89d2.jpg
Zubov Wing of the Catherine Palace http://s45.radikal.ru/i110/1111/32/221ebc9a99ab.jpg
In the Pavlovsk Park http://s004.radikal.ru/i207/1111/ab/34052d5a1cd5.jpg

Tsarskoe Selo. Book taken in 1943 returns to Alexander Palace.

In September 2011 Don Manuel-Angel Conde Basilio of Malaga (Spain) visited St. Petersburg for the first time to honour the dying wish of his father who asked the son to return to Tsarskoye Selo a book he salvaged from a devastated Alexander Palace in 1943. Back then Fernando Conde Lopez was a young surgeon of the Spanish Blue Division accompanying the German Army on the Eastern Front during World War II.
More http://eng.tzar.ru/info/info-events/title/?id=3018

Tsarskoe Selo

At a recent Dorotheum auction in Vienna, Tsarskoye Selo won the EUR 260,000 bid on painting from Alexander Palace - A Stroll in Palermo by Franz Ludwig Catel.

The painting was presented as a gift from Nicholas I to Alexandra Fedorovna in 1846. The painting became part of her private collection and was displayed in the Alexander Palace in Tsarskoe Selo together with other paintings by Catel. It remained there until her death in 1860.

This painting is depicted in a watercolour by Luigi Premazzi, who had been commissioned to paint scenes of the Russian Imperial palace and Catel’s work can be seen hanging at right on the wall of the Marble (Billiard) Drawing-Room in the Alexander Palace at Tsarskoe Selo.

Brought to the Dorotheum by a private collector from Rome, A Stroll in Palermo was auctioned in its original frame. The painting will return to its historical place of display in the Marble (Billiard) Drawing-Room of the Alexander Palace after the latter’s restoration, which is to commence in 2012.

More: http://eng.tzar.ru/info/info-events/title/?id=3019

Vladimir_V> Thank you so much for sharing the news an updates. Although folks may not respond, I know we all appreciate the news and the links. Very informative and interesting.

Thank you!

Thank you. I search my news on the websites:
Gatchina http://www.gatchinapalace.ru/
Pavlovsk http://www.pavlovskmuseum.ru/
Peterhof http://www.peterhofmuseum.ru/
Tsarskoe Selo http://eng.tzar.ru/
Strelna http://www.konstantinpalace.ru/

Sergievka (between Peterhof and Oranienbaum)

Biology institute (working in the Sergievka Palace) restored bronze statue of the Venus from Leuchtenbergs` collection.

Venus in the Sergievka Palace






Photos of Sergievka palace and park:
http://bcam.spb.ru/114/index_e.html

Vladimir thank you for all the great photos and news

Tsarskoe Selo museum published a new book:
Alexander Palace.-St.Petersburg, 2010.
Avrora Publisher, Hard Cover, Dust Jacket, 160 pages.

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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Oh how I would love those books, especially if I knew Russian!

Gatchina

Gatchina museum started to restore the Greece Gallery of the Gatchina Palace that were destroyed by fire in 1944.