Discussions about the Imperial Family and European Royalty > The Yussupovs
The Yusupov Palace on Moika, St.Petersbourg
Antonio_P.Caballer:
In a winter night of 1919 a group of komsomols headed by Pavel Usanov searched the palace. They found during the following days several hidden places, all covered with tiled walls. There were porcelain services, jewells, gold, almost 400 paintings and even Straudivarius and Amati violins. The bolchevik Eduard Essen catalogued these works of art.
No on could know if other hidden treasures could still remain in the palace...
Robert_Hall:
I would imagine, that with the subsequent renovations over the years, any remaining "secrets" would have been revealed.
Forum Admin:
Felix actually did not take much with him from the Palace. He cut 2 Rembrandt paintings out of their frames and took them. This was when he supervised the hiding of everything else. I am very certain that the Palace was gone over with a fine tooth comb, more than once over the years looking for anything else hidden. There is a famous photograph of all the silver found at the time Antonio mentioned, it is amazing to see. I'll post it if I can find it.
Martyn:
Those two silver swans are quite simply staggering! Whatever jewellery Felix managed to spirit out of Russia it would seem that, judging by this photograph, a huge quantity was left behind. There also seem to be a large quantity of empty settings - could these be the old ones that held Irina's jewels before they were reset? Irina's fabulous Cartier rock crystal and diamond wedding tiara is clearly visible in this photo as is the Chaumet sunburst tiara that was remounted for Irina, using existing jewellery, in 1914. There is a beautiful photograph of Irina wearing this tiara on p 230 of "Timeless Tiaras Chaumet from 1804 to the Present". She wears this piece low on her brow in the very latest fashion, more like a bandeau than a coventional tiara. Sadly, it would seem that Irina had little time to enjoy her exquisite jewels as most of them seem to be on the table in this photograph. Perhaps it was smaller pieces that Felix managed to take with him; after all tiaras and huge silver swans are rather hard to conceal about one's person......
Valmont:
What about the gold and silver settings for a Thousand people that Felix talks about in "Lost Splendor", Does anyone know what happened to those?.Somehow, I expected to see more silver ansd Gold settings... Also, if most of The Yussupov Jewells were left behind in Russia, Does this pictures show all that was found? Somehow, I had the idea that a lot more was found...
Arturo Vega-Llausás
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