Do you know how old these plans are Brian? The drawings are wonderful. Tell us what you know about them and the Peterhof also.
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these are Rastrelli's original designs. they're from a very old book (the pages are
very brittle & break easily) of Rastrelli's architectural drawings. i found it years ago, but unfortunately the book's binding fell apart shortly thereafter & i lost both covers & several pages. i have no idea what the title was or when it was printed...not that i
ever knew what the title was, as it's in russian (cyrillic) and at that time, it might as well have been in martian, for all i knew. but it has his designs for the Winter Palace, Petrhof, the Catherine Palace, Hermitage & other buildings at Tsarskoe-Selo, the buildings of empress Elizabeth's Summer palace complex in St Petersburg, and several others, as well as designs for buildings/palaces/pavillions/etc that were never built.