Floorplans of the Alexander Palace

[Sarushka]

Is this the room you mean?

[Olga Maria]

Yes, Sarah. Thank you very much.

[pastpalacelife]

Does anyone know the current condition of the Mountain Hall?  I'm guessing the slide is probably long gone.  Has anyone ever been to this room of the palace?

[Douglas]

the Russian Navy had a ping pong table set up in that room in the last photo I saw of that room.

[EmmyLee]

Here is the most recent photo I've seen of the Mountain Hall. At least I'm fairly certain it is of that room.

[pastpalacelife]

I'm trying to figure out where the slide would have been in the recent picture, can anyone help?  thanks

[EmmyLee]

It's hard to say. That thing on the wall that looks like a window frame throws me off because there's not a window there. I'm wondering if, where that frame is, is where the slide used to be, if you can imagine the slide coming out from that wall and towards the camera. I'm mainly going off of the doorways and then the marble (?) lines within the walls. I may be totally wrong.

[Douglas]

It's hard to say. That thing on the wall that looks like a window frame throws me off because there's not a window there. I'm wondering if, where that frame is, is where the slide used to be, if you can imagine the slide coming out from that wall and towards the camera. I'm mainly going off of the doorways and then the marble (?) lines within the walls. I may be totally wrong.

The detail that looks like a window frame is where there was a mirror.  In the plan here you can see the placement of the huge slide...room 9   ...Mountain Hall.  Yes, the slide was where you now see the empty space for the mirror on the wall at the left, in this current color photo.

[EmmyLee]

Thank you Douglas, for actually going and looking at the floor plan.  I'd forgotten that there's a dummy door in the corner right next to the stairs up the slide.

I wonder why they have the window frame thing there?

[booneyrex]

Could someone please repost the floorplan of the kitchen.  I was not able to see any of the floorplans Vladimir posted only the ones Reco did.

[EmmyLee]

Here you go.

[booneyrex]

Thank you Emmylee.

[Lindelle]

What a fantastic palace!

[Vladimir_V.]

Silvio Dagnini. Tunnel between Alexander Palace and Kitchen Outhouse (cross-section and layout, design). 1897



http://s55.radikal.ru/i149/1008/74/903302c01b87.jpg

[PAVLOV]

Very interesting, I wonder how they kept the food hot in the Russian winter ? It is quite a distance from the kitchen, and that tunnel must have been very cold. One can imagine waiters running very fast with trolleys of food, but how did they get it from the basement to the Dinig Room ? If they used a dumbwaiter it must have been the size of a goods lift. I cant see anything on the plans. I cannot imagine them carrying food up a flight of stairs to serve hundreds of people at a dinner.