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

« on: September 30, 2013, 06:25:18 AM »

I know germans made a very good effort to record what happened there.  That's why we see even massacre photos.

So military collectors should have a lot of photos of these palaces taken by german photographers to offer.  Up until 1944.

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

« on: September 30, 2013, 04:55:26 AM »

Great photos from spanish "Blau" division!  It is interesting to see that the great hall has been (a bit) cleaned compared to 1941 photos.

Also thank you for the corrections, Alexandre!

I believe there are a lot more photos of these palaces out there.  I hope more will be posted!

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

« on: September 28, 2013, 07:12:48 AM »

This map from period publication of the army group north of german army shows the SS-Polizei-Division ( http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Gliederungen/PanzergrenadierdivisonenSS/4SSPGD.htm ) entering directly into Tsarskoe Selo area in September.


Link to the original: http://www.history.jp/images/MapSep1941.jpg

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

« on: September 28, 2013, 06:29:41 AM »

Thank you again, Katya!

Next comes two pictures of the great hall.


Link to the orignal: http://www.history.jp/images/CatherinePalaceGreatHall1.jpg

There's no snow, so it must be a pre-winter period ( SS Polizei Division reached this region in September ).


Link to the orignal: http://www.history.jp/images/CatherinePalaceGreatHall2.jpg

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

« on: September 27, 2013, 07:24:34 PM »

Another interior picture.  Where is this?



Link to the original: http://www.history.jp/images/Inside1.jpg

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

« on: September 27, 2013, 06:39:15 PM »

Thank you Alexandre for the historical presentation of the Chinese room, I appreciate it!

I scanned a few more from my collection - the first two shows "outside" pictures of other buildings.

I noticed that I misread the name of the owner of the album in earlier picture, it should read Werner instead of Walter.


Chapel

Link to the original: http://www.history.jp/images/CatherineChapel.jpg

The Cameron Gallery

Link to the original: http://www.history.jp/images/CameronGallery.jpg

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

« on: September 25, 2013, 05:59:24 PM »

Thank you very much Katya, the Chinese room it must be!

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

« on: September 24, 2013, 11:11:59 PM »

Can anybody identify the room shown above?

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

« on: September 24, 2013, 09:48:31 AM »

More black/white photos are found in my archive.  Here is a good view of a room you might want to see :-)



http://www.history.jp/images/WalterRichter-pic01.jpg

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

« on: September 23, 2013, 07:58:45 AM »

I am a bit disappointed by the lack of interest to my photo.  It is a color photo from 1941 and not a manually colored one.

Now I will add another color photo from 1941, this time inside - the ball room.

Then

http://www.history.jp/images/Dia23.jpg

Now

http://www.history.jp/images/DP1M1130.jpg

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

« on: September 12, 2013, 10:56:45 PM »

It is difficult to get the correct white balance from a 70-year old Agfacolor slide, so the blue hue may or may not be correct to the original.  Thank you for understanding.

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

« on: September 12, 2013, 10:55:15 PM »

My image appears on the forum page in a shrinked size;  link is: http://www.history.jp/images/CatherinePalace.jpg

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

« on: September 12, 2013, 09:15:15 AM »

Hello from a new comer;  I am a long time collector of WWII germany related photographs from Japan ( my website: http://www.history.jp/wehrmacht/ ).

Last August I had a chance to visit St. Petersburg, Catherine Palace included.  Impressive.  Awesome.  Incredible.  What a tragedy that the palace and other great history was lost, in addition to the huge loss of human lives.

Back in Tokyo, I checked my Agfacolor part of my collection to find Catherine Palace photos, because my collection focus is Heeresgruppe Nord (German army's army group north) and I knew I had something...

Bingo!  I thought that I post to revive this old thread.

So here's the then and now image: