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Jmentanko:
I was wondering if there are any photographs of the private rooms of Nicholas and Alexandra in the Winter Palace. Were there any pictures taken before these rooms were demolished? Does anybody know what these rooms looked like? Please post anything you know!

Greg_King:
You can find photographs of these rooms in a number of books: "Nicholas and Alexandra: The Last Imperial Family of Tsarist Russia" (the catalog from the exhibit); "Nikolai v Aleksandra" (Russian version of the same, from 1994); "The Winter Palace in the Reign of the Last Emperor" (this from memory-but I think the title is correct, published in Russia in 1998-2000); and "Ermitage: Istorii v Arkitekturya" by Boris Piotrovsky, 1991.  In Fulop-Miller's book on Rasputin there is a single photograph, identified I believe as one of Alix's rooms in the Alexander Palace, which is in fact her Sitting Room in the WP.  Geraldine Norman's book "The Hermitage" also has a few pictures of these rooms.

Finally-if you go rent a copy of Eisenstein's "October" you can see film footage of these rooms used in his movie.

Greg King

pers:
Does anyone have a copy of the layout and use of all the personal suite rooms, especially those facing the inner courtyard as well?  Apparently we cannot tour those rooms, at least I have not had access to them the two times I have been to St Petersburg.

Antonio_P.Caballer:
Joanna,
i had acces to the Nicholas´ and Alexandra´s rooms in 2001, but those inner rooms you are interested in are closed. they were bath rooms and so on and i understand they are too small to visit. In 2003 Nicholas´and Alexandra´s rooms, save the gothic library, were closed. At least in July.

Antonio_P.Caballer:
Hello Joanna!
From what i know the rooms of the ground floor just below Alexandra´s corner drawing room were occupied by the grand duchesses Olga and Alexandra Nicholaevna, daughters of Nicholas I. However, in 1855 these suite of rooms looking to the Neva and Admiralty were lavishly redecorated by Stakenschneider for the wedding of Grand Duke Nicholas Nicholaevich with Alexandra Petrovna(nee Princess Oldenburg).  The new rooms were lovely, as everything done by Stakenschneider.
I´ve always thought that the children rooms were in the second floor, above those of Nicholas and Alexandra, but i do not know the exact location. In fact, just above Alix´s corner drawing room there was Nicholas I´s room, and his study next door, and also his other rooms, all looking to the Admiralty.
The balcony you said is that of Nicholas I´s corner drawing room. There was also another balcony  in the first floor, in the corner study of Nicholas II, that had formerly been a lovely winter garden of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna(the first).
Relating Princess Dolgorukaya´s apartments, i read that Empress Maria Alexandrovna could hear from her rooms the steps(above her room´s ceiling) and noise of princess Dolgorukaya and her children, so i assume the Princess´rooms were right above those of the Empress.

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