The Catherine Palace and park: 6 REASONS TO VISIT Pushkin (Tsarskoe Selo) | Russia Travel Guide
In 6 minutes you will learn 6 reasons to visit one of the most fascinating places near Saint Petersburg, Russia. I will tell you how to get to Pushkin by train or bus from the city of Saint Petersburg.
0:20 The Empresses
0:41 The Catherine Palace
1:14 The Great Hall
2:13 World War II and the restoration process
3:06 The Amber Room
4:00 The Park
4:45 Alexander Pushkin
5:24 Getting to the Catherine Palace from Saint Petersburg
The Catherine Palace (Екатерининский дворец) was the summer residence of the Russian empresses Екатерина I, Елизавета Петровна и Екатерина II in Tsarskoye Selo, which is now called Pushkin.
The Catherine Palace is the center of the complex of the palace and the park on this historic site. The splendor of the Catherine Palace museum displays the work of architects from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
The palace is best known for Rastrelli's grand suit of formal rooms known as the Golden Enfilade. The Great Hall, also known as the Hall of Light, covers 860 square meters and occupies the full width of the palace so that there are superb views on either side. The entire ceiling is covered by a monumental fresco entitled The Triumph of Russia.
During World War II, the territory of Tsarskoye Selo was occupied and the palace was almost completely destroyed, of the 58 halls destroyed during the war years, 32 have been recreated.
The jewel of the palace is the Amber Room (Янтарная комната), rightly called a wonder of the world.
The palace and park ensemble of Tsarskoye Selo is recognized as one of the best monuments in the world to the art of landscape gardening in the XVIII – XX centuries.
In the summer of 1831, the famous Russian poet and writer Alexander Pushkin rented a cottage in Tsarskoye Selo, where he wrote the letter to Tatiana from Onegin, completing the novel in poems Eugene Onegin. In 1937 Tsarskoye Selo was renamed to the town of Pushkin, thus commemorating the centenary of the poet's death.
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Tsarskoye Selo – Planning of an Exhibition
Our collection and the exhibits presented in this exhibition are very important to us. We revere them, because they belonged to various emperors of Russia. These are their personal possessions. And that’s why these items are extremely precious. - Olga V. Taratynova Director, Tsarskoye Selo State Museum-Preserve, Russia
Treasures from Tsarskoye Selo: Residence of Russian Monarchs
29.10.2014 – 16.3.2015
Hong Kong Museum of History
The Catherine Palace
The Catherine Palace is a Rococo palace located in the town of Tsarskoye Selo, 30 km south of St. Petersburg, Russia. It was the summer residence of the Russian tsars.
The residence originated in 1717 when Catherine I of Russia hired German architect Johann-Friedrich Braunstein to construct a summer palace for her pleasure. In 1733, Empress Elizabeth commissioned Mikhail Zemtsov and Andrei Kvasov to expand the Catherine Palace. Empress Elizabeth, however, found her mother's residence outdated and incommodious and in May 1752 asked her court architect Bartolomeo Rastrelli to demolish the old structure and replace it with a much grander edifice in a flamboyant Rococo style. Construction lasted for four years, and on 30 July 1756, the architect presented the brand-new 325-meter-long palace to the Empress, her dazed courtiers, and stupefied foreign ambassadors.
More than 100 kilograms of gold were used to gild the sophisticated stucco façade and numerous statues erected on the roof.[citation needed] In front of the palace a great formal garden was laid out. It centers on the azure-and-white Hermitage Pavilion near the lake, designed by Mikhail Zemtsov in 1744, remodeled by Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli in 1749 and formerly crowned by a grand-gilded sculpture representing The Rape of Persephone. The interior of the pavilion featured dining tables with dumbwaiter mechanisms. The grand entrance to the palace is flanked by two massive circumferences, also in the Rococo style. A delicate cast-iron grille separates the complex from the town of Tsarskoe Selo. Although the palace is popularly associated with Catherine the Great, she actually regarded its whipped cream architecture as old-fashioned. When she ascended to the throne, a number of statues in the park were being covered with gold, in accordance with the last wish of Empress Elizabeth, yet the new monarch had all the works suspended upon being informed about the expense. In her memoirs she censured her predecessor's reckless extravagance:
The palace was then being built, but it was the work of Penelope: what was done today, was destroyed tomorrow. That house has been pulled down six times to the foundation, then built up again till it was brought to its present state. The sum of a million six hundred thousand rubles was spent on the construction. Accounts exist to prove it; but besides this sum, the Empress spent much money out of her own pocket on it, without ever counting.
To gratify her passion for antique and Neoclassical art, Catherine employed the Scottish architect Charles Cameron, who not only refurbished the interior of one wing in the Neo-Palladian style then in vogue, but also constructed the personal apartments of the Empress, a rather modest Greek Revival structure known as the Agate Rooms and situated to the left of the grand palace. Noted for their elaborate jasper decor, the rooms were designed so as to be connected to the Hanging Gardens, the Cold Baths, and the Cameron Gallery (still housing a collection of bronze statuary)—three Neoclassical edifices constructed to Cameron's designs. According to Catherine's wishes, many remarkable structures were erected for her amusement in the Catherine Park. These include the Dutch Admiralty, Creaking Pagoda, Chesme Column, Rumyantsev Obelisk, and Marble Bridge.
Upon Catherine's death in 1796, the palace was abandoned in favor of Pavlovsk Palace. Subsequent monarchs preferred to reside in the nearby Alexander Palace and, with only two exceptions, refrained from making new additions to the Catherine Palace, regarding it as a splendid monument to Elizabeth's wealth and Catherine II's glory. After the Great Fire of 1820, Alexander I engaged Vasily Stasov to refurbish some interiors of his grandmother's residence in the Empire style. Twenty years later, the magnificent Stasov Staircase was constructed to replace the old circular staircase leading to the Palace house church. Unfortunately, most of Stasov's interiors—specifically those dating from the reign of Nicholas I—have not been restored after the destruction caused by the Germans during World War II.
When the German forces retreated after the siege of Leningrad, they intentionally destroyed the residence.[1] leaving only the hollow shell of the palace behind. Prior to World War II, Soviet archivists managed to document a fair amount of the interior, which proved of great importance in reconstructing the palace.
Although the largest part of the reconstruction was completed in time for the Tercentenary of St. Petersburg in 2003, much work is still required to restore the palace to its former glory.
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PUSHKIN (TSARSKOYE SELO), RUSSIA - travel shorts
If any proof is needed for the extravagance of Russia's Imperial rulers, then it can be found in the fact that, in less than two centuries, the Romanov Tsars established not one but two suburban estates - at Tsarskoe Selo and Pushkin - that, in terms of grandeur and excess, outstrip even Versailles. What is more, at Tsarskoe Selo, the 18th century saw the construction of two vast and truly exceptional palaces, both surrounded by extensive landscaped gardens with diverse and fascinating decorative architecture.
Built for Empress Elizabeth by Bartolomeo Rastrelli, the architect of St. Petersburg's Winter Palace, the Catherine Palace is undoubtedly Tsarskoe Selo's top attraction, particularly renowned for the extraordinary Amber Room. Less well known, and currently much more dilapidated, the Alexander Palace is nonetheless a neoclassical masterpiece, and has a particularly poignant connection with the family of the last Tsar, Nicholas II.
The town of Pushkin, which surrounds the Tsarskoe Selo estates, is St. Petersburg's most charming suburb. Renamed in Soviet times to honour Russia's greatest poet, the town has numerous sights connected to Alexander Sergeevich, including a museum in the former Imperial Lycee, where he was schooled.
Like Pushkin, Tsarskoe Selo is one of St. Petersburg's must-see attractions, and can easily occupy visitors for a full day. And, like Pushkin, it can be very crowded during the tourist high-season in the summer. Arrive early or be prepared to join long queues, especially for the Catherine Palace.
Catherine palace Екатерининский дворец - Tsarskoye Selo Царское Село
The Tsarskoye Selo palace and State Museum Preserve is a superb monument of world ranking architecture, garden and park design dating from the eighteenth to early twentieth centuries. A whole constellation of outstanding architects, sculptors and painters made the ideas of their crowned clients a reality here. Tsarskoye Selo is a cluster of very fine examples of Baroque and Classical architecture and it was also the first place in the Russian capital where interiors decorated in the Moderne (Art Nouveau) style appeared.
The compositional centre of the ensemble is the Catherine Palace – a splendid example of Russian Baroque. Visitors are enraptured by the sumptuous décor of the Great Hall and the Golden Enfilade of state rooms that includes the world famous Amber Room now returned to life. Today, as we enter the palace, we can sense the spirit of the times of Empresses Elizabeth and Catherine II and admire unique works of fine and applied art.
Tsarskoye Selo is also home to one of the finest creations of Classicism in architecture – the Alexander Palace. Passing through the rooms of the living apartments that are open to visitors, you can get an idea of the aesthetic preferences of the last members of the Romanov dynasty and view the Emperor’s State Study that was decorated in the Moderne style.
More than a hundred historical monuments are scattered across the Catherine and Alexander Parks that have a joint area of 300 hectares: there are grand palaces and intimate pavilions, bridges and marble monuments, and also exotic structures imitating Gothic, Turkish and Chinese architecture that invest little corners of the parks with a romantic atmosphere.
Treasures from Tsarskoye Selo, Residence of the Russian Monarchs Exhibition
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Monarchs Exhibition
Featuring over 200 exquisite items on loan from the Tsarskoye Selo State Museum-Preserve of Russia, including paintings, costumes, porcelain, weapons and works of art, this exhibition introduces the history and culture of Russia under the Romanov dynasty from the early 18th to the early 20th century. Exhibit highlights include decorative items from Tsarskoye Selo produced by various imperial manufactories in Russia, diplomatic gifts presented to Russia from foreign royal houses and a richly decorated carriage used during the coronation of the Russian monarchs. The exhibition aims to give visitors a greater insight into the splendour of Russian court life and into the broader political and cultural developments in Russia's history that Tsarskoye Selo has borne witness to.
2014.10.29 – 2015.03.16
Special Exhibition Gallery, Hong Kong Museum of History
The Winter Palace through the Ages
This movie devoted to the Winter Palace, the residence of the Russian emperors, enables you to make a unique journey through time. Computer models present the palace and its surroundings in different historical eras - in the reigns of Nicholas I (mid-19th century) and Nicholas II (late 19th - early 20th century), and in the present day. The panoramas are accompanied by commentaries and supplemented by paintings and graphic art as well as photographs.
Walking through the halls of the Winter Palace
The Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg, Russia, was, from 1732 to 1917, the official residence of the Russian monarchs. Today, the restored palace forms part of a complex of buildings housing the Hermitage Museum. Situated between the Palace Embankment and the Palace Square, adjacent to the site of Peter the Great's original Winter Palace, the present and fourth Winter Palace was built and altered almost continuously between the late 1730s and 1837, when it was severely damaged by fire and immediately rebuilt. The storming of the palace in 1917 as depicted in Soviet paintings and Eisenstein's 1927 film October became an iconic symbol of the Russian Revolution.
The palace was constructed on a monumental scale that was intended to reflect the might and power of Imperial Russia. From the palace, the Tsar ruled over 22,400,000 square kilometers (8,600,000 sq mi) (almost 1/6 of the Earth's landmass) and over 125 million subjects by the end of the 19th century. It was designed by many architects, most notably Bartolomeo Rastrelli, in what came to be known as the Elizabethan Baroque style. The green-and-white palace has the shape of an elongated rectangle, and its principal façade is 250 meters (820 ft) long and 30 m (98 ft) high. The Winter Palace has been calculated to contain 1,786 doors, 1,945 windows, 1,500 rooms, and 117 staircases. Following a serious fire, the palace's rebuilding of 1837 left the exterior unchanged, but large parts of the interior were redesigned in a variety of tastes and styles, leading the palace to be described as a 19th-century palace inspired by a model in Rococo style.
In 1905, the Bloody Sunday massacre occurred when demonstrators marched toward the Winter Palace, but by this time the Imperial Family had chosen to live in the more secure and secluded Alexander Palace at Tsarskoe Selo and returned to the Winter Palace only for formal and state occasions. Following the February Revolution of 1917, the palace was for a short time the seat of the Russian Provisional Government, led by Alexander Kerensky. Later that same year, the palace was stormed by a detachment of Red Army soldiers and sailors—a defining moment in the birth of the Soviet state.
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The Tsarskoe Selo Collection • Part 1
Presented (in Russian) by Andrey Kuznetsov, Director of the Department of Exhibitions
Artists' names are indicated with English subtitles.
Коллекцию музея представляет Андрей Кузнецов, заведующий экспозиционно-выставочным отделом .
Title Image: Konstantin Rozhdestvensky ‘Silhouette (A Woman from Pskov)’, 1933
The Tsarskoe Selo Collection
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Vera Ermolaeva • Вера Ермолаева
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Geras Geokchakyan • Герас Геокчакян
Ludmila Glebova • Людмила Глебова
Tatyana Glebova • Татьяна Глебова
Maria Gorokhova • Мария Горохова
Aleksei Gostintsev • Алексей Гостинцев
Vladimir Grinberg • Владимир Гринберг
Dora Gurevich • Дора Гуревич
Mikhail Kazakov • Михаил Казаков
Maria Kazanskaya • Мария Казанкская
Tatyana Kerner • Татьяна Кернер
Natalya Kim • Наталья Ким
Pavel Kondratyev • Павел Кондрятьев
Nikolai Kostrov • Николай Костров
Nikolai Lapshin • Николай Лапшин
Valentin Levitin • Валентин Левитин
Mikhail Matyushin • Михаил Матюшин
Sultan Mavlyuberdin • Султан Мавлюбердин
Yuri Nashivochnikov • Юрий Нашивочников
Aleksandr Nekrasov • Александр Некрасов
Vladimir Nekrasov • Владимир Некрасов
Vyacheslav Pakulin • Вячеслав Пакулин
Vladimir Parshikov • Владимир Паршиков
Teodor Pevzner • Теодор Певзнер
Valentina Povarova • Валентина Поварова
Konstantin Rozhdestvensky • Константин Рождественский
Aleksandr Rusakov • Александр Русаков
Vladimir Sterligov • Владимир Стерлигов
Mikhail Tserush • Михаил Цэруш
Vsevolod Voinov • Всеволод Воинов
Vladimir Volkov • Владимир Волков
Lev Yudin • Лев Юдин
Iosif Zisman • Иосиф Зисман
Vladimir Zhukov • Владимир Жуков
Temporary exhibition: Pavel Lokhtunov
Временная выставка: Павел Лохтунов
Catherine Palace, Pushkin, Russia
Glories of the Hermitage
This winter, long after the tourists have left St. Petersburg, a select few will have the opportunity to explore The Hermitage in depth. Once the home of the Romanovs and now one of the world's greatest museums, you must not miss the Glories of the Hermitage.
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The Catherine Park
The Catherine Park is a park, located in the town of Tsarskoye Selo, 25 km south-east of St. Petersburg, Russia. It is an integral part of the royal residence in Tsarskoye Selo. Catherine Park, which received its name from the Catherine Palace, consists of two parts: a regular old garden and English garden.
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The Hermitage Pavilion in Catherine Park. Hermitage a name taken from the French language was a common feature of regular gardens in the 18 century. They located in the wild area of the park and intended to enable the owner of the estate to rest and dine.
The Upper Bathhouse a building for bathing. Upper Bathhouse contained six rooms: an entrance hall, dressing room, bath, steam bath, boiler-room and an octagonal central hall for relaxation.
The Grotto a building intended as a nook for a rest on the hot summer days.
The Cameron Gallery building that designed to offer the best possible views over the surrounding park, and especially the Great Pond, the upper story of the building is surrounded by a colonnade consisting of 44 slender Ionic columns and decorated with bronze busts of the great figures of antiquity.
The Agate Rooms building in Pompeian style was a northern variant of an ancient Roman thermae or public baths.
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Pushkin and Art Square
St. Petersburg is a city with art everywhere! See a street musician on Canal Griboedova, get a view of Church on Blood, walk down Italian Street to Ploshad Iskustov, Arts Square, to the Monument to Pushkin, the hero of Russian literature, and celebrate his birthday with a wash in the park!!! June 2012
The Armory Museum in Tsarskoye Selo (Tsar’s Village)
The Armory Museum was open in 2016 in Tsar’s Village (or the town of Pushkin) near St. Petersburg, Russia
Hermitage Museum - 1st Floor
This is a little movie that covers part of the first floor of the Hermitage Museum: main staircase, St. Gerorge Hall with The Great Imperial Throne, The Armorial Hall, The Western Gallery, The Pavilion Hall, The Peacock Clock, The Raphael Loggias It includes some of the Italian art: Raffaello Santi's Madonna and Child and The Holy Family , Titian's Repentant Mary Magdalene and Danae, Leonardo da Vincis Madonna Lita and Madonna with a Flower, Giulio Romano's Love Scene, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio's The Lute Player, Carolo Dolci's St. Cecilia, Pompeo Girolamo Batoni's The Choice of Hercules, Massimo Stanzione's Cleopatra, Rembrandt, Antoon Van Dyck , and Pieter Paul Ruebens.
A. S. Pushkin Museum Preserve
Pushkin’s poetical motherland is considered to be Zakharovo and Viazemy estates near Moscow as he spent his childhood here. At these very places Pushkin saw the beauty of Russian nature, peasants’ ritual dances, heard folk songs, saw the life of rich and province upper class people for the first time. Here he formed his life outlook, began to write his first poems. It is the place of his formation as a national poet. Pushkin came back to these places at the most difficult periods of his life.
Nowadays there is the State historical and literary museum preserve of A.S. Pushkin at the territory of two estates. Coming to these places you can wander the ancient parks paths where the great poet walked as well as breathe this magic air and touch the dumb witnesses of the poet’s childhood – marvellous architecture monuments which are united in a whole XVI—XIX centuries palace and park ensemble: the Transfiguration church, belfry dated the end of XVI century, palace and two wings dated the XVIII century, household outbuildings, parks, ponds of the XVI—XIX centuries. In total there are more than 20 historical and cultural monuments on the territory of Viazemy.
These places are related to the key events if the Russian history: the Time of Troubles, Peter’s transformations, 1812 Patriotic War, Civil War and Great patriotic War. Boris Godunov, Lzhedmitriy I, Petr I, Pavel I, Kutuzov, Napoleon, Bagration, N.V. Gogol, L.N. Tolstoy, M. Tsvetaeva, A. Akhmatova and many other world known people came here.
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Exhibit In The Children's Rooms opens at Alexander Palace
Set out in the second floor of the Alexander Palace, in the rooms of the children of Nicholas II. Items included cover period from Nicholas I to Nicholas II.
You will see over 200 objects, many of them unique and displayed for the first time. Of particular interest are the authentic toys of the last tsar's children, including the grand duchesses' favourite French porcelain doll and Heir Tsesarevich Alexei's American Indian wigwam and pirogue.
Opens June 2 to September 11, 2011 at the Alexander Palace (2nd floor), 10.00-17.00 daily except Tuesdays and the last Wednesday of each month. Ticket price 100 rubles, reduced prices for students.
Game room was great, m 60. It fits the railway, lodge, canoe, toy St. Bernard, drums, and it is certainly not an exhaustive list.
Iraida Bott, Deputy Director of the State Museum Tsarskoe Selo in scientific work: Toys and presents from neighbors and distant relatives. Alexei's Grandmother Maria Feodorovna gave him for his birthday a donkey, and a children car.
Here is the crown prince on the photo next to his favorite donkey Vanka. The harness presented by the King Vittorio Emanuele. Massive, brilliant - see it here today at the Alexander Palace, among black and white photographs and colorful toys.
Emil Kapelyush, artist: The task was so to create a feeling as if a boy or a girl just came out into the corridor, and hear their voices. But it is rather felt at the level of sensation.
The story of those toys could hardly be more dramatic. When their owners are taken away, the toys remain. In 1931 the toys were given to different organizations, and, fortunately, most of them ended up in the museum of Zagorsk. What remained of the ceremonial uniforms of the Tsarevich and Grand Duchesses, too, is almost a miracle.
Olga Taratynova, director of the State Museum Tsarskoe Selo: It happened that during the evacuation of the collection of the Alexander Palace in 1941, the items lacked the wrapping material. And things who went to the evacuation, should be packed. And began to turn in their uniforms.
The watercolors show the playing room, the bedrooms of the grand duchesses, not at all similar to the palace chambers, wigwam in the middle of playing room, a toy booth guard and a host of priceless museum staff for details.
So a lot of toys, which were in the Alexander Palace, do not mean that the children mainly played. Quite the contrary: most of the time paid tuition and various other matters.
Miraculously survived the year 1916-1917 schedule. Here we see that classes begin at 9 am and end only at 8 pm. This two breaks for lunch and a walk. Petrov signed a secret adviser.
Alexandra Feodorovna never loved her children lazy. At least, it concerned daughters. Tsarevich allowed anymore, and he's probably - the protagonist of this exhibition. Who left their toys, and he remained only in photographs: a uniform, zalomlennoy cap zhmuryaschiysya, though the bright sun in the garden of the Alexander Palace.
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