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Tsarskoe Selo Palaces / Re: War Damage of Tsarskoe Selo and Peterhof

« on: April 19, 2025, 06:27:40 PM »

I hope this message will be read by someone in the future.

Anyone create to identify the church in the X message?

https://x.com/atakiguchi/status/1913714222938157382/photo/1

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Tsarskoe Selo Palaces / Re: War Damage of Tsarskoe Selo and Peterhof

« on: February 11, 2022, 01:48:04 AM »

Nine years since I posted my first message here...   After thirteen years since I got my first Pushkin related color slides, this week I have acquired some new slides from Pushkin - to be precise, Peterhof.

So here is the Samson statue.  Color is apparently silver, reflecting sky and earth (so a bit gold looking).

http://www.history.jp/images/Puschkin-Dia14Acrop.jpg

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Tsarskoe Selo Palaces / Re: War Damage of Tsarskoe Selo and Peterhof

« on: November 14, 2013, 05:45:32 PM »

There must be a lot more photographs of such photographs in various collections.  I know a great set of Polizei Division color slides in a collection, so it may contain something too.  Bundesarchiv and other archives should have a lot to contribute.

Photography is THE media at the time in germany, it's about everything in life, not only excursions...  Germans wanted to record what they encountered and of themselves as much as possible...  And especially when they were risking their lives every day at war...

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Tsarskoe Selo Palaces / Re: War Damage of Tsarskoe Selo and Peterhof

« on: November 10, 2013, 06:54:25 AM »

Today I found a picture from my aerial photograph collection - Puschkin.

This photo is dated May 13, 1943.  What interested me is that roof of the main part of the Catherine Palace is mostly gone, while the rest appears relatively intact.



Link to the original image: http://www.history.jp/images/3021-031-Teil-a.jpg

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Tsarskoe Selo Palaces / Re: War Damage of Tsarskoe Selo and Peterhof

« on: October 18, 2013, 07:22:28 PM »

Apparently the painting shown in http://forum.alexanderpalace.org/index.php?topic=6503.msg528564#msg528564 was drawn nearby.

Again from the estate of Herrn Kastner.



Link to the original picture: http://www.history.jp/images/EugenKastner-f27.jpg

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Tsarskoe Selo Palaces / Re: War Damage of Tsarskoe Selo and Peterhof

« on: October 16, 2013, 08:50:22 PM »

Oops, April 1942...

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Tsarskoe Selo Palaces / Re: War Damage of Tsarskoe Selo and Peterhof

« on: October 16, 2013, 07:43:45 PM »

The Peterhof pictures were probably taken in April 1941, when 212th replaced the predecessor in Peterhof area.

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Tsarskoe Selo Palaces / Re: War Damage of Tsarskoe Selo and Peterhof

« on: October 16, 2013, 09:39:01 AM »

Thank you for the many images that will help my future acquisition :-)

Unfortunately no images of Samson statue is in Eugen Kastner's estate, but instead, I can show you the Poseidon (and the palace itself) in winter 1941/42.



Link to the original image: http://www.history.jp/images/EugenKastner-f11.jpg

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Tsarskoe Selo Palaces / Re: War Damage of Tsarskoe Selo and Peterhof

« on: October 15, 2013, 08:51:24 AM »

Hello Alexandre, great (and sad) set of images;  how I wish I could see the palaces in its original form!

I have checked my large group of color slides that stems from a Leutnant in 212.Infanterie-Division to find a Peterhof cathedral image.  I hope you enjoy this.



Link to the original picture: http://www.history.jp/images/EugenKastner-f14.jpg

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Tsarskoe Selo Palaces / Re: War Damage of Tsarskoe Selo and Peterhof

« on: October 09, 2013, 09:10:58 AM »

Thanks again Alexandre.

Here goes one from the same album, really badly damaged Peterhof palace.



Link to the original picture: http://www.history.jp/images/IR423-pic03.jpg

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Tsarskoe Selo Palaces / Re: War Damage of Tsarskoe Selo and Peterhof

« on: October 08, 2013, 09:58:20 AM »

Alexandre, impressive pictures!  How I wish I knew more about these Russian architectures!  I'm on the learning process here.

Here is "the other photo" on the same page from the I.R.423 album.  Can you tell what is this?



Link to the original picture: http://www.history.jp/images/IR423-pic02.jpg

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Tsarskoe Selo Palaces / Re: War Damage of Tsarskoe Selo and Peterhof

« on: October 06, 2013, 11:54:13 PM »

Alexandre, I'll post another photo in a few days, which may answer your question.

The russian sign says "Do not walk on the lawn" (I tried to google translate it), is it correct?

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Tsarskoe Selo Palaces / Re: War Damage of Tsarskoe Selo and Peterhof

« on: October 06, 2013, 09:31:19 AM »

On the Heeresgruppe maps 250.Infanterie-Division was never around Peterhof area, but that does not mean Antonio's grandfather was never there.

Here is a nice picture of Peterhof cathedral from an album of soldier who belonged to Infanterie-Regiment 423 (212.Infanterie-Division).



Link to the original picture: http://www.history.jp/images/IR423-pic01.jpg

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Tsarskoe Selo Palaces / Re: War Damage of Tsarskoe Selo and Peterhof

« on: October 04, 2013, 12:17:59 AM »

they´re all stamped at the back "Militarisch und politisch unzensiert". Isn´t that akin to saying "Milira and Politically Uncensored" ??

Right.  These stamps are sometimes found in photo estates.  I have not been able to find the exact rule about this, but certainly these photos did not go through censoring process and passed to soldiers.  Also found as simply stamped "Unzensiert".

I will try to find out who occupied Peterhof area during 1941-1943 (unfortunately I don't have 1944 maps) this weekend.

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Tsarskoe Selo Palaces / Re: War Damage of Tsarskoe Selo and Peterhof

« on: September 30, 2013, 11:51:52 PM »

Dear Antonio, your grandfather survived the war, did he not?  Glad if he did, to leave these photos for us later generations.

Anyone, russian, german, spanish... must have had great luck to survive the hell of Leningrad...