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Other Palaces / Re: Rundale Palace
« on: August 01, 2005, 05:42:18 AM »
Where is Rundale? I have never read about it in reference to the Impeial Family.
Bob G
Bob G
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The the modest two-story house at 18, Angliyskiy Prospect that was bought by the heir Nicholas for Matilda Kshesinskaya. However, she wasn't the first Romanov's ballet mistress to live there. Prior to her moving in, it belonged to prima-ballerina Anna Kuznetsova, a passion of GD Konstantin Nikolayevich who actually built the house for her.
As I've aready told BobG, I happened to be inside the house many times: it belongs to the Samoilova candy/chocolate factory (Georges Bormann prior to the revolution) where my wife used to work at a factory health clinic. The family members were allowed to come from time to time and eat as much sweets as they could. At that time nobody of the personnel seemed to know about the house's romantic past. Neither did I.
Dolgorukies had other estate before the revolution -
Miskhor .
It was the famous Naval Hospital during and after the WWII. My grand grand father lived in the palace and worked in the Hospital at the end of 40ths.
The ambassadors who met with Nicholas entered from the third entrance ( in the MAP of AP site refferes as the Entrance C ).
On the prerevolutionary maps they called in Entrance A but at the same time they called in Third Entrance.
THere was a big room where the guests could wait for the palace's servant . After this they entered to the Oak corridor , to the red passing room etc.