The Zubov wing, Catherine Palace

Photograph of Alexander II's Cabinet in the Zubov wing:

http://www.nasledie-rus.ru/podshivka/nmimage.php?z=../img/680000/681212.jpg&width=500&height=314

Watercolor c1857 of the Cabinet:
http://www.nasledie-rus.ru/img/680000/681806.jpg

Watercolor c1850 of Alexander's bathroom:
http://www.nasledie-rus.ru/img/680000/681807.jpg

A short translation of Alexander II's rooms in the Zubov wing:

"...Still Alexander II preferred to spend a part of year in Tsarskoe Selo where it constantly borrowed the same pokoi in Zubovskom a wing, consisted of of some rather small rooms simply trimmed and arranged, exception from which was the Asian room 17. It has been magnificently cleaned, and its main ornament was the collection of the weapon which Nikolay Pavlovich has started to collect still. In the Cabinet in Zubovskom a wing in leisure-times Alexander II, being good risovalshchikom, carried out figures which favourite plot was the military form, both Russian army, and foreign..."

Photos and history of Alexander II's life in Tsarskoye Selo both in Alexander Palace as a child and in Zubov wing:

http://www.nasledie-rus.ru/podshivka/6812.php

Joanna

[Thanks so much]

Joanna, I am enraptured!

Your links are always so wonderful!!

Thanks so much for posting them

As the same room appeared before some restoration works ordered by Alexander II.

The bedroom and study of Grand Duke Nix.

Nikolai has started a section on the Zubov Wing which he is continuously updating:

http://geglov2.narod.ru/Foto/Ekat_p/Ekat_p_f_005.htm

There is a fascinating photo c1930 of Alexander II's bathroom with the row of mounted military figures under glass. I am curious if these items survived.

Joanna

Hello,     

does someone have information about the four rooms beside the Copula Hall in the Zubov wing, which were inhabited last by prince Zubov? 
Furthermore, I look for for information about the four rooms of Alexander II beside the Arabesque Hall and the Lions Hall. They flowed to the rooms of his wife Maria Aleksandrovna, who inhabited parts of the Katharines-apartment. It existent a watercolor of a room with a fire-place in the center of the rear wall, whose cover in the center is carried by a bar. Thereby this room can be the second romm from the east of this apartement.

Is there a floor plan for the Zubov wing?

A fountain in the private garden in of Catherine II, front of the Zubov wing. Last week-end.

Are there any pictures of any of the rooms of the Zubov wing today?

I would love to see what the Lyons Hall or yellow drawing room looks like today, I believe that room was located in the Zubov wing, part of the private rooms of Alexander II

News about the Lyon's Hall : his fabulous furniture is visible and the restoration of this marvelous room is considered doing !  

http://www.angelfire.com/pa/ImperialRussian/blog/index.blog?topic_id=1069103

http://eng.tzar.ru/info/info-events/title/?id=3151