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Winter Palace Blueprints
dodo00:
I have lots of rare blueprints of the winter palace in st Petersburg, even the first three really obscure ones! They're from a rare book I had to get shipped from Ukraine, but I can't read a lick of russian, so if you can translate the captions, that would be much appreciated. If you have any blueprints of the winter palace, please do post them. If you have any summer palace blueprints, feel free to post them too, because the two palaces are like two peas in a pod and I like that one too. I'll hopefully start posting tomorrow, but ill see if I can upload one tonight too.
dodo00:
I'll start out with one I found online, a cross section of st Georges hall
http://www.arthermitage.org/Giacomo-Quarenghi/Design-of-the-St-George-Hall-in-the-Winter-Palace-Horizontal-Section-Showing-the-Wall-and-the-Throne.big.html
dodo00:
Alright, here's how it should be about to go down. I'll first post plans of the first winter palace, then the second one, then the third one, then the Apraksin palace which later was rebuilt as the current winter palace, then the wooden palace they stayed in while the current one was being built, THEN the current one. Also, Catherine palace plans will now go on a separate thread cause i came across a whole bunch of them.
dodo00:
So, the first winter palace looked like this and had these plans:
then, a courtyard was added in the back:
this is a depiction of the ceremonial hall:
pictures from http://petro-barocco.ru/archives/4465
dodo00:
Next, the second winter palace.
it was later expanded
here's a cutaway, with a dining room with a snack bar in the lower left, peter I's rooms in the lower right, and Catherine's rooms on the second floor
it was eventually expanded even more
ceremonial hall cutaway
the red marble panels in the ceremonial hall
and tile furnaces
pictures taken from http://petro-barocco.ru/archives/4448
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