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Topics - brnbg aka: liljones1968

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Tsarskoe Selo Palaces / The Pavillions at Tsarskoe Selo
« on: May 25, 2005, 05:11:21 PM »
the Turkish Bath


the Chinese Pavillion


the Chinese Palace






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The Hohenzollern / Schleswig-Holsteins
« on: January 12, 2005, 12:56:45 PM »
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The Alexander Palace / Help ID-ing various rooms
« on: January 04, 2005, 09:42:28 PM »
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There hasn't been any response to this request, and I too would love to get a better sense of exactly where these rooms are located.  The State Museum 'Tzarskoje Selo'  has a numbered floorplan of the entire Alexander Palace and it would be great if one of the palace historians could identify where these rooms are on the plan.  Thanks so much.


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can anyone identify the function/designation for the rooms in the right wing?   the color-code has identified who occupied which space.... but it would be fantastic to know which room was A III's study, etc.    A III & MF seem to have occupied a large number of rooms (then again, so did N II & AF!), it would be really interesting to know what they were.    

specifically, rooms 18 thru 56

CAN ANYONE PLEASE HELP IN IDENTIFYING THESE ROOMS?


i know someone out there has to know....
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Tsarskoe Selo Town / the Tsarskoe Station
« on: December 31, 2004, 09:26:34 PM »
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i wasn't quite sure where i should post this -- in TRANSPORTATION or here --- i opted for here, obviously  ;)


i don't know about anybody else out there, but i had never seen the inside of the station...then or now.



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The Habsburgs / Empress Elisabeth, Part I
« on: December 16, 2004, 12:00:40 PM »
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Olga Nicholaievna / watercolors by Olga Nikolaevna
« on: November 08, 2004, 05:00:52 PM »
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Marie Feodorovna / Friends and servants of Marie Fedorovna
« on: October 29, 2004, 06:32:47 AM »
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Imperial Russian Antiques / the Jewel Cabinets....
« on: October 18, 2004, 03:11:12 PM »
something has puzzled me for a really long time (and i'm finally getting around to asking!)

there was a "tradition" that seemed to be peculiar to the ladies of Russia & their jewels.   (i could be mistaken about this, but i haven't really seen it mentioned in relation to the ladies of europe...)

i'm referring to the way in which they "housed" their jewels.   during her trip to st.petersburg while still duchess of Marlborough, Consuelo Vanderbilt describes, in her book THE GLITTER AND THE GOLD, her visit to the Vladimir palace.    during the course of the evening, the grand duchess Vladimir invited her into her private apartments.
  Conseulo's description of the grand duchess' jewels is relatively well known.   now here's my question:

did any of the jewel cabinets (or "cases") survive?    has anyone seen them?   does anyone have a photo?

Consuelo's description went something like, "the grand duchess showed me her jewels, which were displayed "long cases" in her bedroom."   (i may not have it exactly right, but i don't have the book in front of me).

it seems that displaying one's jewelry was a fairly common practice peculiar to Russia.  i believe that queen Alexandra had adopted the practice after seeing her sister (MF) display her jewels this way.

Feliks Yusupov mentions in his book LOST SPLENDOR, that one of the renovations he was having carried-out for Irina, was a strong-room with cases for her jewels.  

ealier in the book, while describing his mother's apartments in the Moika palace, he states "her bedroom was hung with blue damask, the furniture was of inlaid rosewood; long cabinets contained her jewels.   on reception days, the doors were left open, and everyone could admire her jewels."

i've seen the jewel-cabinets of their european counterparts (such as the fantastic cabinet of marie-antionette at versailles -- huge, heavy gilded wood....very solid.  no sense of "display"ing the jewelry at all.   more like "once it's in there, it's STAYING in there!").

i've always been left with the impression these russian jewel cases/cabinets were more like vitrines or jewelry-store display cases.   i think i may be somewhat off-the-mark with that last one, but i'm chomping-at-the-bit to actually SEE[/i] an example of one.


someone here should have an answer or, at least, have an idea or  will hazard a guess?

thanks y'all  ;)

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HIH mme the grand duchess Konstantin the elder of Russia
        Aleksandra Iosifovna

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The Yussupovs / Arkhangelskoie, the estate of the Yusupovs near Moscow
« on: September 27, 2004, 07:26:41 AM »
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The Alexander Palace / the Slide
« on: September 23, 2004, 01:27:30 PM »
i'm hoping this won't be a repost of an image everyone's already seen, but just in case.....


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her natural elegance is evident


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The Yussupovs / Mansions of the Yusupovs in Europe - Finland, France etc
« on: September 14, 2004, 10:49:49 PM »
Feliks' great-grandmother, the princess Zenaîda Ivanovna Yusupova (who was also the marquise de Serre & the comtesse de Chaveau) bought the estate & chateau de Kériolet in Brittany for her 2nd husband, the chevalier de Chaveau.   she had also bought him the title of count (at the same time, buying for herself the title of marquise de Serre).   when he died, he left the chateau to his mistress.     the princess bought it back from her, closed it up & never went there again.     ownership eventually fell to Feliks, and once again, Feliks & Irina found a windfall had descended upon them.   the sale of the chateau & the estate enabled them to live well again, for a while....



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