Final Translations of AP Rooms from Yakolev's 1928 Book

[Joanna]

Pg. 449-450-451

Apartment Hof-Lectrice Ekaterina Adolfovny Schneider

No. 42 Bedroom

The room is preserved in its original state. The walls are covered with wallpaper of brown patterned roses and have lower panels.

The parquet floor has a plush carpet. The furniture is upholstered in English chintz. There are other mahogany objects but they are more or less of usual everyday nature. Only the mahogany screen and cupboard, which stands as a partition with a chintz curtain, belongs to Nikolai I epoch.

In one of the wardrobe cabinets is a mannequin with an outdoor dress and bodice of Hof-Lectrice, and on the toilette stand are arranged hand-made doll figurines of Russian peasants, boxes with dolls, etc. 

On the table, covered with a plush tablecloth, is a model of the Trinity-Sergievskoy Monastery, consisting of 43 objects, cut out of a lime tree in 1990 (typo error in book s/b 1890 or 1900?).  With the appendix of the plan on tracing paper, instructions of  cardboard and monograph are collected in leather binding.

Let us note also the wash articles (behind the partition) are of works of the Kornilov’s porcelain factory and the table lamps in the form of Chinese vases (craquelé  - cracked) with paper lampshades.

834 Molin, Peter (1596-1661) Dutch School
The view
Size 0,56 x 0,79 oil on canvas

835 Unknown Artist (XIX)
The View
(Signature on lower right)
Size 1,04 x 0,80 oil on canvas

836 Tieling, E.
Image of Gellenau Castle
(Signature on lower right)
Size 0,27 x 0,545
837 Paired with the latter
(Signature on lower right)
Size 0,35 x 0,56 oil on canvas

838 Unknown  Artisit, Huysmans (?) Flemish School
Landscape with figures (with Nikolai I) that were painted later over the image
Size 0,51 x 0,74 oil on canvas

839 Unknown Artist - School of Van Dyck
Holy Family with Parrot
Size 0,321 x 0,411 oil on canvas

840 Unknown Artist
View of Gatchina Palace from the Park
Size 0,595 x 0,78 gouache


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[Joanna]

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No 39 –  2nd  Servants Room

The walls are covered in delicately patterned light wallpaper. The furniture consists of a pair oak armchairs, a pair of gilded chairs with soft seats and a small birch chest with images of roses. On the commode, there is a modern ladies toilet set from the porcelain factory in Nymphenburg (Germany), purchased by Tatiana Nikolaevna.

The middle of the room has a small cloth-covered table with modern dishes from the porcelain and glass factory in Limoges (France), and a menu-card.

By one of the lateral walls, there is in toy scale a covered bed, stools, an easel with a chalkboard and a school desk built by the pupils of the Ol’ginskogo Petersburg Orphanage on November, 3rd, 1900, and in a box are a German silver toy samovar with trays, pipes and rinsing cups. At the other lateral wall in a wooden box are games of serso and lawn tennis.

Pictures:

821 Green, N.E.
Landscape
(Signature on lower right N.E. Green)
Size 0,295 x 0.44 oil on canvas

822 Kramskaya-Inker S.I. (Sofia Ivanova) (1870)
Russian School
Still Life
(Signature lower S. Kramskaya-Inker)
Size 0,395 x 0,72 oil on canvas

823 Unknown Artist
Roses
(Signature lower N.S.)
Size 0,51 x 0,49 Watercolor

Reproductions presented  – “A Long Story” in chromolithograph – one from picture by Reynolds and another that depicts “Her Cross”, and a photo-engraving of a portrait of Alexandra Feodorovna by Kaulbach.

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[Joanna]

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Apartment Hof-Lectrice Ekaterina Adolfovny Schneider

No 40. Corridor

The walls are painted in oil of a light grey tone. The floor, as mentioned, is tinted parquet. The furniture is predominantly birch from the period of Nikolai I, typical for official palace rooms. The window has tulle curtains with wooden cornices.

In the front cabinet are puppets completed by wards of the Ol’ginskogo Orphanage in 1900 and by students of the handicraft class of the Petrovskiy School in Kazan, and two dolls in national suits. On the wall is a photograph of the cortege of Olga Nikolaevna, daughter of Nikolai II, during the day of her baptism on 14 November, 1895 with the Ekaterina palace in Tsarskoe Selo in the background.

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Apartment Hof-Lectrice Ekaterina Adolfovny Schneider

No. 43 Bathroom


The walls are covered with white striped wallpaper. The bath is copper encased in wood. 

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Pg. 442-443

Apartment Hof-Lectrice Ekaterina Adolfovny Schneider

No 38 – 1st Servants Room

The walls are covered in delicately patterned light wallpaper and with lower panels.

The birch furniture (armchairs and chairs), with painted wood surrounding the hearth, are of the time of Nicholas I. On the front table, covered with dolls, is of a Ukrainian wedding of the Prilukskom district of Rodtavskoy provinces during the moment of invitation. The dolls on the table are made by the Degterevskoi school – a weaver’s workshop of the Kiev zemstvo, and bought by the Heir at the 2nd All-Russia handicraft exhibition. {This refers to the 1913 Koustar Arts Exhibition under the Patronage of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna. The dolls were presented as a gift to Alexei.  There is a color photograph of them by Prokhudin-Gorskii.}

By the lateral walls on a commode are the dower of the bride of the same wedding, a towel of handicraft work, wooden plates and saltshakers. Here, in a leather binding album  brought by the Poltava provincial zemstvo, with views of the province. On a washstand cabinet – a small painted cardboard house. On a wall – a view  of the wedding dinner participants.

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No 39 –  2nd  Servants Room

The walls are covered in delicately patterned light wallpaper. The furniture consists of a pair oak armchairs, a pair of gilded chairs with soft seats and a small birch chest with images of roses. On the commode, there is a modern ladies toilet set from the porcelain factory in Nymphenburg (Germany), purchased by Tatiana Nikolaevna.

The middle of the room has a cloth covered children's table with modern doll's dishes from the work of the porcelain and glass factory in Limoges(France) and a menu-card.

By one of the lateral walls, there is in toy scale a covered bed, stools, an easel with a chalkboard and a school desk built by the pupils of the Ol’ginskogo Petersburg Orphanage on November, 3rd, 1900, and in a box are a German silver toy samovar with trays, pipes and rinsing cups. At the other lateral wall in a wooden box are games of serso and lawn tennis.

Pictures:

821 Green, N.E.
Landscape
(Signature on lower right N.E. Green)
Size 0,295 x 0.44 oil on canvas

822 Kramskaya-Inker S.I. (Sofia Ivanova) (1870)
Russian School
Still Life
(Signature lower S. Kramskaya-Inker)
Size 0,395 x 0,72 oil on canvas

823 Unknown Artist
Roses
(Signature lower N.S.)
Size 0,51 x 0,49 Watercolor

Reproductions presented  – “A Long Story” in chromolithograph – one from picture by Reynolds and another that depicts “Her Cross”, and a photo-engraving of a portrait of Alexandra Feodorovna by Kaulbach.

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Apartment Hof-Lectrice Ekaterina Adolfovny Schneider

No. 41 Drawing Room

The walls are covered in a gray white stripe wallpaper.

The floor has a plush stitched carpet. The furniture, covered in brocade, is from the time of Alexander II.

A large part of the room has a wooden model of 12 houses and sheds, a church, a bridge, fences and a number of small figures, a supply, apiaries, vegetable garden where cabbage is being raised, lathes, wood, agricultural instruments, etc.  The model was presented to the heir in 1913 by Moscow handcraftsmen. * It is now located in the museum of communications in Leningrad. 

In the same room is another village scenery model, with views of the Church of the Savior of of Nereditsy in the Novgorod province and the monument to Peter 1st (carved from wood by P.F. Bordenkova), presented on the 1911 Tsarskoe Selo Anniversary Exhibition. There is also a pyrograph portrait of Nikolai II, and a woodcut portrait of Alexandra with her son by the shepherd Sigismund Kowalevski.

Pictures:

824 Yertangen  (1598-1657) Dutch School
Bacchanalia of the Sirens
Size 0,575 x 0,81 oil on canvas

825 Colombel, Nicolas (1646-1717)
French School
Flight of Holy Family into Egypt
Size 0,739 x 0,977 oil on canvas

826 Meyerhem, W. (1814-1882)
German School
Maneuvers of the Prussian Troops
Size 0,511 x 0,622 oil on canvas

827 Unknown Artist
Portrait of  Marie Fedorovna – wife of Paul I
Size 0,378 x 0,117 oil on canvas

827 Unknown Artist (XVI-XVII)
Bolognese school
Narcissus (octagonal frame)
Size 0,47 x 0,56 oil on canvas

828 Parmegianino (1503-4-1540)
Italian School
Betrothal of Saint Ekaterina
Size 0,90 x 1,07 oil on canvas

829 Rabe, R. (XIX) German School
Soldier in Wine Barrel
(signature on lower right F. Raabe 1841)
Size 0,47 x 0,58 oil on canvas

830 Teniers, D. (David the elder) (1582-1649)
Flemish School
Religious Allegory {photograph on pg 447}
(signature on lower left)
 Size 0,456 x 0,338 oil on wood

831 Heidegger, Harhtmann (c1734)
Invalid with Birds
Size 0,422 x 0,333 oil on canvas

832 Schulz (XIX) German School
Cavalry Platoon with Camp in Background
(signature on lower left Iulius Schulz)
Size 0,43 x 0,59 oil on canvas

833 Elsholtz, L. (XIX) German School
Scene of March Life
(Signature L. Elsholtz 1840)
Size 0,44 x 0,635 oil on canvas

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Apartment Hof-Lectrice Ekaterina Adolfovny Schneider

No. 44 Room of Dressmaker for E.A. Schneider, Spare

During the period of Nikolai II under arrest, Archpriest Afanasy Belyayev stayed here for approximately one week.

The walls are covered with crème stripped wallpaper. The furniture is of beech and mahogany. The only furniture here is beech chairs and a mahogany knob spittoon.

In the room are children toys: models of a Russian railroad station, tunnel, a platform, a bridge, a locomotive with tender and passenger railroad cars that was presented to Alexei by Wilhelm II, a boat on wheels with a  pair of oars, Chinese oars, Chinese billiards of the name of ‘steam sterilizer’, papier-mâché battleships, a small metallic automobile, wooden Das Senkbare Luftschiff (airship) games, wooden skis, a drum, helmets, a pair epaulets and a piece of projectile presented to the Heir by the 147 regiment, the student desk used with tutor P. Ivanov, 15 textbooks, 7 notebooks, a pair of pencils, elastics and feather pen that was presented by Vladimir Military School in Kiev in 1911 together with a list of students, children’s books in German, English and French, a box of Muncher kinde-Baumkasten cubes, a box of wooden houses and of musical cubes presented to the Heir on the Tsarskoe Selo Anniversary Exhibition in 1911, wooden playing cards, an Indian spear, chauffeur’s equipment, a map-relief of Colonel Zalesskogo’s Port Arthur in 1904.

Pictures:

841 Ignatsius, V,
Nikolai II and Alexandra Feodorvna on the Deck
(Signature споава(?) lower V. Ignatsius 1898)
Size 0,455 x 0,63 (light (daylight) between frame and canvas) Pastel

842 Unknown Artist
Hussars
Size 0,42 x 0,3 (light (daylight) between frame and canvas) Watercolor

Reproduction of the picture of Alexander Nevsky by V. Vasnetsov 1914.

Photo types from a portrait of Nikokai II, a colored portrait of Alexandra Feodorovna by Kaulbach, and a portrait of Alexei Nikolaevich. Photographs of Nikolai II, Alexandra Feodorovna and Olga Nikolaevna.

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No. 45 & 46  MAIDS’ ROOMS

They are apportioned with low partitions in the faux-gothique style arranged probably in the XVIII century by the architect I.V. Neelov. These partitions are painted white with mastic oil varnish. The stone walls are covered in cream stripe wallpaper. 

In the first room {No. 45} are the sets of mahogany and karelian Empire 1830 style furniture from the small house on the Children’s Island, among which attention is drawn to the clavichord musical instrument. A breakdown of several objects in the faux-gothique style transferred from the White Tower: dark and light bronze desktop clocks, bronze and mother-of-pearl clocks, a pair of big candlesticks and an inkwell.

Pictures:

843 Unknown Artist
Three women feeding swans
Size 0,37 x 0,38 Oil on canvas

In the second room are the sets of wavy birch furniture upholstered in calico in the Empire style from the same house on the Children’s Island. Also from this house are alabaster chandeliers with bronze chains and toys of ships, wooden and iron blades, hoes, watering cans, swings, metal screen and so forth.

In between the partitions are arranged the furniture from the house of Alexandra Nikolaevna, the daughter of Nikolai I, and Russian porphyry vases in the classical style from the monument of Alexandra Nikolaevna. Also stored here is the copper board with the engraved poem “The Dying Swan” from V.A.Zhukovskogo's monument on the Children's Island.

Pictures:

844 Kollman, C. (1786-1846)
Nikolai I at Babigon, (in the Russian folk style).
Size 0,205 x 0,295 (mat) Watercolor

There are a pair of lithograph reproductions, one of which represents Nikolai I at the coffin of Francois I, and the second – a German work – of Nikolai I with retinue.

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[EmmyLee]

This is very interesting, Joanna. Thank you for translating these pages. I wish there were pictures to go along with them. Do you know if this apartment was included in the tour of the AP while it was a museum the first time around?

[Joanna]

Left Wing - 1st Floor

57. Vestibule (Lobby)

The walls are framed with mastic-oil paint in grayish tones. There were wooden partitions until 1899 (not to the ceiling); plastered replacements were then arranged on the sides of the mezzanines.

On the ceiling is an Empire style rosette from the center of which hangs a dark bronze lamp.

Returned from the rate after the February revolution under escort and after entering into the vestibule, Nicholas II out of habit gave the honor to the military protection which was located here but neither one of the group returned his greeting. The next day S. Mstislavsky came here on instructions of the Petrograd Soviet of Workers and Deputies Commission and went down first into the basement to inspect the premises and the order of protection.

The mahogany table is here that was located in the saloon of the Imperial train on which Nicholas II signed his abdication.

58. Buffet

The walls are painted in light green mastic-oil with panels of gray tones.

59. Passageways

There are low wooden partitions.

60. Tsarina’s On-Duty Attendant

Finished the same as the Buffet.

61. Furnace to boil water for the Buffet

62. Stairs to the Second Floor

One, located in the side of the kitchen wing, painted in white distemper, the other – to the side of the ceremonial court – a light green mastic-oil paint. The areas of the latter are lined with tiles.

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[Cathy]

There are no adequate words to say thank you for the work you are doing on the Yakolev book translations. A big 'Thank You' from all of us.

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Left Wing - 1st Floor

65. Bathroom (Nicholas II)

Decorated in Moorish style. The ceiling and wall partitions are made of maple. The partition material and window curtains are made from сambric with additional  application of chain stitch embroidery design. The upper walls are matte finished – the panel is of oak wood and the area of the  swimming pool is tiled. The swimming pool, which takes up to 7000 buckets of water, is lined with waffle tiles; in the upper corners are three glass lamps with green bulbs to illuminate the water. The platform floor is covered with cloth and the sofa is upholstered in elk-skin suede together with the pillows; there are three carpets – two Turkmen Chuval and the third Persian Kerman silk.  In the passage is a Russian carpet (Zavidova) and  the horizontal gymnastic exercise bar.  Alongside  the swimming pool is a bench and pillows of Savinsky leather. In the right corner is a kiot with icons, crosses, rosary and Easter eggs and on the left is a washstand. Of the icons that were presentation gifts from cities, military units, etc., one is of Nicholas Seslavina’s campaigns of 1805, 1807 and 1812. On the other side of the door is a rack with two rifles from the Tula Arms Factory and along the partition wall a pair of pistols, hunting knives and cartridges.

The furniture is partly of oak and birch. The shelves and dressing table were covered with family photographs and Danish porcelain figurines. A representation group of the photographs on the toilet table are of Alexandra Fedorovna, the daughters, autographed Queen of Greece, Danish Queen Louise mother of Marie Fedorovna, Alexander III with the family hunting, Alexander III by Serov, Marie Fedorovna in the Crimea, etc. There are also an alarm clock, hairbrush, lamp, metallic bell, pendant from Irene and Henry of Prussia, and other trinkets.

The table by the door is covered in the primitive artisan style and the stool by the window with the same type of cloth, one of which represents the gift of bread and salt to the Tsar.

On the table in front of the window was kept at one time the valuable cigarette case collection. In the same room stood the parrot cage.

The horseshoes found by Nicholas II are fastened one above the door and the other over the rack of canes.

Paintings #531 to 550
Photographs

In this room, Nicholas II completed his toilet, gymnastics and drank his morning tea.

W.C.
Paintings #551 & 552
Photographs – “The Bath of Psyche”
Nicholas II read the reports of the military officers, then lowered them into the pot.

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Left Wing - 1st Floor

66. WARDROBE

Low, narrow room. The mezzanine is above it and the next room.

Along the walls of a bright greenish-gray mastic oil paint are ash wardrobe cabinets.

On the table in front of the window are five oxidized iron horseshoes joined together presented by the officers of the senior officer cavalry school, and a kind of large blotting pad with 36 engraved portraits of Alexei Nicholaevich by Rundaltseva.

In the cupboards are frock-coats, double-breasted jackets of the guard and army regiments, overcoat, fur coat worn deer hunting, cloak, sheepskin coats, embroidered gloves, pair of hussar boots, dolman jacket in which he was married and fur hat. In one of the cabinets are envelopes with the addresses of officers.

Paintings #553 – 556
Photographs

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Left Wing - 1st Floor

67. VALET (KAMERDINERSKAY)

A staircase communicated with the mezzanine and basement; the walls are painted the same as the previous room (wardrobe). The only telephone in the entire half wing of the Tsar was in this room.

The passage is separated by a glazed oak wood partition with a door.

Mix of furniture – mahogany and ash from epoch of Nicholas I. In the passage is the writing desk of the on-duty valet, on which was a pencil sharpener with an order from Nicholas II not to use it.

On the walls: oak panel with carved crown, cross with the inscription: “God is not in force but in truth…” – presented by the union of Russian people on April 22, 1907; a lithographic portrait of Nicholas II’s speech to the deputation of workers, watercolor portraits of Nicholas II’s speech to the members of state, Alexandra Fedorovna and their son, the text of the hymn “God save the Tsar” with portraits of Nicholas I, Alexander II, Alexander III, Nicholas II, poet Zhukovsky composer of L’vov, etc.

Paintings - #557-560

Chromolithographs and photographs of the Imperial family and photograph of the deputation of the Orenburg Cossack Corps.

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