there is more one extract about AP of the "Tsarskoe Selo" of another guide-book issued in 1999: "
During of the first months of the Grand War the chandeliers,carpets, furniture, marble and porcelaine items were evacuated from AP Museum. After the occupation of the Pushkin town by German troops, German Headquarters and Gestapo located in the rooms of AP. Germans used the cellar as a prison; the square before the palace was used as the cemetery for SS soldiers.
After the war was finished, the palace was conservated,
and in the June of 1946 the palace was passed to the Academy of Science of USSR in order to hold there collections of the Institute of Russian Literature.
It was also planned to open the Soviet Pushkin Museum in the palace. In this connection , in 1947-1951 years, the restoration has begun. It was planned to restore the Quarenghi parade rooms, as well as the interiors of Nicholas I and Nicholas II times.
However, during the restoration works some decoration staff of Maple Room, Palisander Room of Emperess AF, as well as some staff of the Toilet room of Nicholas II which were still existed , were completely destroyed.
In 1951, according to the Governmental Decision, AP was passed to the Naval Ministery. and the palace collection went to Catherine Palace-Museum and Pavlovsk Palace -Museum".
