Artefacts Stolen by Nazis Returned to Tsarskoye Selo and Alexander Palace

[Alexandre Mikhaelovitch]

Article from Paul Gilbert's blog Royal Russia (with a video from russian TV) :

"Artefacts Stolen by Nazis Returned to Tsarskoye Selo:

The artefacts arrived from Munich on Monday and presented to the Tsarskoye State Museum Preserve near St. Petersburg. Palace-museum staff compared the original inventory markings on the items, matching them with those on their expansive archival inventories, confirming that they had originated at the Catherine and Alexander Palaces.

A rare book from the personal library of Emperor Alexander I, two vases and an icon which belonged to one of the maids of honour of Russian Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, are among the returned treasures."

http://www.angelfire.com/pa/ImperialRussian/blog/index.blog/1457282/artefacts-stolen-by-nazis-returned-to-tsarskoye-selo/

The two "Art Nouveau" vases and the book from Alexander 1st personnal library:


©Tsarskoie Selo State Museum-Preserve

[Sanochka]

All I can say is WOW!  It is so heartening to see looted items being returned to their rightful place after all these years.

[Alexandre Mikhaelovitch]

   
A new free admission exhibition On Alexander Palace : "And the Door Will Open One Day" :

"Artefacts returned to the Museum after WWII (from the temporary display at the Upper Bathhouse)
First time on display:
-Personal belongings of Russian monarchs donated by Jens and Franziska Harmsen
-An original crate of 1941 for the evacuation of the museum artefacts during the war ".

http://eng.tzar.ru/info/info-events/title/?id=3458

"The artefacts on display include those looted during the Nazi occupation of Pushkin town (Tsarskoye Selo) in 1941–4 and later returned at various times to the Museum."

Article with photos , from Paul Gilbert's blog Royal Russia :

http://www.angelfire.com/pa/ImperialRussian/blog/index.blog/1467562/tsarskoye-selo-hosts-unique-exhibit-of-treasures-looted-during-wwii/

Adimission hours for this exhibition 1800-23.00 this evening for the St Petersburg Night of Museums .
The exhibition runs from May 9th until September 30th in the Upper Bath of the Catherine Park.

[Alexandre Mikhaelovitch]

The Saint-Petersbourg Night Museum is saturday and not this evening , sorry for the mistake .( 18.00 to 23.00 for Alexander Palace and Catherine Palace).