Does anybody here know if the restoration work on the Lower Palace is being continued??I know last summer they cleared and excavated the ruins, but have no information as far as its present state is concerned...
Hi Antonio
From a press release last August 2004, the timeline for the restoration is 2014 due to financing:
"...Cost of construction of the bottom summer residence of Peterhof, Romanov's last palace will be 600 million roubles, director of the state park museum of reserve "Peterhof" Vadim Znamenov has informed at press conference on Friday. According to V.Znamenova, the customer of construction is Gosstroy of Northwest. Designing works are conducted by the company of Joint-Stock Company " Cathedral ". As the general director of Joint-Stock Company " Cathedral " Vladimir Leontev has informed, on disassembly of blockages with architectural research 7,5-8 million roubles, on restoration of the base - 7,3 million roubles and on an establishment of external networks - 3-5 million roubles is required. At given moment, according to V.Znamenova, it is executed more than 60 % of designing works. It has noted, that the main problem at present is the problem of financing. In a year restoration of reserve the state allocates 60 million roubles that will allow to restore a museum only by 2014..."
http://www.web-invest.ru/?p=13&ID=66600Joanna
