THE WINTER PALACE and STATE HERMITAGE MUSEUM, St PETERSBURG, RUSSIA
(See also St ISAAC'S CATHEDRAL The symbolic site of the October 1917 Revolution, and arguably the most iconic building in the city, the Winter Palace started life in 1764 as the primary residence of the Tsars and is today the main part of one of the world's greatest art museums, with over 3 million exhibits. (4 June 2010)
St Petersburg Short: The Grand Palace, Peterhof.
The Grand Palace, Peterhof is beautiful and the grounds stunning...but what did it look like after World War Two?
I found a display of photos from after World War II in the grounds beneath the Grand Palace which showed the damage, repairs of which were only completed in 2003.
Saint Petersburg - Winter Palace - Hermitage - Peterhof Palace - White Nights
Saint Petersburg, is Russia's second-largest city after Moscow. Situated on the Neva River, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea, it was founded by Tsar Peter the Great in 1703.
Saint Petersburg is often considered Russia's cultural capital and is among others, home to the Hermitage, one of the largest art museums in the world
Kazan Cathedral, also known as the Cathedral of Our Lady of Kazan, is a cathedral of the Russian Orthodox Church on the Nevsky Prospekt in Saint Petersburg. It is dedicated to Our Lady of Kazan, one of the most venerated icons in Russia.
The Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood is one of the main sights of Saint Petersburg. Other names include the Church on Spilled Blood, the Temple of the Savior on Spilled Blood, and the Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ.
Erected on the site where political nihilists fatally wounded Emperor Alexander II in March 1881, the church was constructed between 1883 and 1907.
The Summer Garden occupies an island between the Fontanka, Moika, and the Swan Canal in Saint Petersburg and shares its name with the adjacent Summer Palace of Peter the Great.
The Admiralty building is the former headquarters of the Admiralty Board and the Imperial Russian Navy in St. Petersburg, Russia and the current headquarters of the Russian Navy.
The edifice was re-built in the nineteenth century to support the Tsar's maritime ambitions.
Saint Isaac's Cathedral is a cathedral that currently functions as a museum in Saint Petersburg. It is dedicated to Saint Isaac of Dalmatia, a patron saint of Peter the Great, who had been born on the feast day of that saint. It was originally built as a cathedral but was turned into a museum by the Soviet government in 1931 and has remained a museum ever since.
The Winter Palace was the official residence of the Russian Emperors from 1732 to 1917. Today, the palace and its precincts form the Hermitage Museum.
The Catherine Palace is a Rococo palace located in the town of Tsarskoye Selo (Pushkin), 30 km south of St. Petersburg,. It was the summer residence of the Russian tsars.
The Peterhof Palace is a series of palaces and gardens located in Peterhof, Saint Petersburg. It was commissioned by Peter the Great as a direct response to the Palace of Versailles by Louis XIV of France.
The Peter and Paul Fortress is the original citadel of St. Petersburg. It was founded by Peter the Great in 1703 and built from 1706 to 1740 as a star fortress. In the early 1920s, it was still used as a prison and execution ground by the Bolshevik government. Today it has been adapted as the central and most important part of the State Museum of Saint Petersburg History.
The Trinity Cathedral sometimes called the Troitsky Cathedral, in Saint Petersburg, is a late example of the Empire style, built between 1828 and 1835.
The White Nights Festival is an annual summer festival in Saint Petersburg celebrating its near-midnight sun phenomena due to its location near the arctic circle; each year between around April 21 and August 31, the skies only reach twilight and never reach complete darkness.
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St Petersburg Russia, The Cathedrals, Palaces and Museums - August 2019
We toured several Cathedrals, Palaces, and Museums during our two day cruise ship stop in St. Petersburg Russia. This video offers a glimpse into several of the structures originally built when the Tzars ruled. These structures are far more lavish than what this video can capture. One must go there to fully appreciate it. I leave it to YOU, the viewer, to do some Google searches and discover the history these structures are part of.
Included here….
1. The Cathedral at the Peter & Paul Fortress
2. St. Isaac’s Cathedral
3. Church of Our Saviour on the Spilled Blood
4. The Hermitage Museum
5. Peterhof Fountain Park and Gardens
6. Catherine’s Palace
All of the still and video images were captured with our iPhones.
Background music is a Russian Folk Music piece titled “Russian Winter”. The music is from Fantasy & World Music by the Flechters.
August 2019
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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State Hermitage Museum Tour - St Petersburg Russia
The State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, Russia, is one of the largest art museums in the world, with over one million pieces of art, and around a million archaeological artefacts and other exhibits, it's an amazing place. However it isn't just the art that is breath-taking, the buildings are heavily decorated in gold leaf making it a feast for the eyes. Check out this 10-minute highlight video to get a flavour of just how beautiful it is. Filmed in August 2019.
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The Peter and Paul Fortress and Cathedral , St Petersburg, Russia
The Peter and Paul Cathedral is located inside the Peter and Paul Fortress along the Neva River in St. Petersburg. It is the oldest building in St. Petersburg and the second tallest after the television tower.
In the early 20th century, it was still used as a prison by the tsarist government.
Today it has been adapted as the central and most important part of the State Museum of Saint Petersburg History. The museum has gradually become virtually the sole owner of the fortress building, except the structure occupied by the Saint Petersburg Mint.
Cathédrale Pierre-et-Paul
La cathédrale Pierre-et-Paul est une cathédrale orthodoxe russe située dans la forteresse Pierre-et-Paul à Saint-Pétersbourg en Russie. Elle fut construite pour devenir la nécropole de la famille impériale russe des Romanov.
La cathédrale fut construite de 1712 à 1733 sous l'empereur Pierre Ier de Russie en suivant les plans de l'architecte Domenico Trezzini en remplacement d'une église en bois. Elle est l'un des monuments les plus anciens de Saint-Pétersbourg.
The State Hermitage Museum , St-Petersburg, Russia ( Ultra 4K)
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Le musée de l’Ermitage , St Petersbourg ,Russie , situé au cœur de Saint-Pétersbourg, au bord de la Neva, est le plus grand musée du monde en termes d'objets exposés (plus de 60 000 pièces y sont exposées dans près de 1 000 salles tandis que près de 3 millions d’objets sont conservés dans les réserves).
Le musée présente, à côté de nombreuses pièces de l’Antiquité, une collection d’œuvres d’art européen de la période classique qui compte parmi les plus belles au monde. Parmi les œuvres exposées, figurent des peintures de maîtres hollandais et français comme Rembrandt, Rubens, Henri Matisse et Paul Gauguin. On y trouve également deux peintures à l'huile de Léonard de Vinci ainsi que trente et une peintures de Pablo Picasso. Le musée emploie 2 500 personnes et utilise l'aide de nombreux stagiaires gérés par le Service des volontaires du musée de l'Ermitage. Les bâtiments abritant le musée de l’Ermitage constituent un des principaux ensembles du centre de Saint-Pétersbourg qui est classé au patrimoine mondial de l’UNESCO.
THE STATE HERMITAGE MUSEUM
The State Hermitage is a museum of art and culture in Saint Petersburg, Russia. One of the largest and oldest museums in the world, it was founded in 1764 by Catherine the Great and has been open to the public since 1852. Its collections, of which only a small part is on permanent display, comprise over three million items,[3] including the largest collection of paintings in the world. The collections occupy a large complex of six historic buildings along Palace Embankment, including the Winter Palace, a former residence of Russian emperors. Apart from them, the Menshikov Palace, Museum of Porcelain, Storage Facility at Staraya Derevnya and the eastern wing of the General Staff Building are also part of the museum. The museum has several exhibition centers abroad. The Hermitage is a federal state property. Since 1990, the director of the museum has been Mikhail Piotrovsky.
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St Petersburg City, Hermitage Musem, Church of Savior on Blood, Winter Palace and River Neva 2017
St. Petersburg Vacation Travel Video Guide • Great Destinations
After the maritime victory over the Swedish army, Peter I the Great decided that he is going to build a city on the small islands and lagoons of the mouth of the river Neva. The Russian, Italian and French masters dreamed wonderful Baroque and Classicist palaces to the banks of the canals. The Church of the Savior on Blood, the Saint Isaac's Cathedral, the Peter and Paul Fortress, the blue white and gold Smolny and the Winter Palace all make the city of white nights unforgettable. The Hermitage has one of the largest art collections of the world, but for those who find this less than enough, there is the Russian Museum, and the suburbs of Peterhof, Pushkin and Pavlovsk.
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Famous Landmarks of St. Petersburg | Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood
This week we're taking you to one of the most famous sights in Saint Petersburg and in the whole Russia - the Church of the Savior on (Spilled) Blood. Discover the reason for its name, count the mosaics and learn how long it took to build the landmark.
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My visit to Russia begins along the Baltic Sea in Saint Petersburg. Saint Petersburg is Russia's second-largest city as well as its cultural capital. The Historic Center of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments constitute a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Next I continue on to Moscow, Russia's capital and most populous city. Here I visit historic Red Square and the Kremlin. The Video concludes with my visit to the Trinity Monastery of St. Sergii in Zagorsk.
VIDEO CONTENTS:
0:00:24 Peter and Paul Fortress
0:08:05 Moscow Square/House of Soviets
0:08:37 Victory Square
0:10:05 Imperial Reception at Catherine Palace
0:43:07 St. Petersburg at Night
0:43:59 Moscow Triumphal Gate
0:44:23 Holiday Inn Moscow Gate
0:45:18 Narva Triumphal Gate
0:45:55 Peterhof
0:46:01 Saint Peter and Paul Cathedral
0:46:25 Peterhof Grand Palace
0:46:41 The Grand Cascade - Samson Fountain
0:53:05 Lower Garden
0:54:49 The Adam Fountain
0:54:58 Gulf of Finland
0:55:19 French Formal Garden
0:56:06 Panterre Garden - Roman Fountains
0:57:44 Dragon Cascade on Chessboard Hill
0:58:00 Orangery Fountain
0:58:42 The East Chapel
0:59:12 Upper Garden
0:59:40 Dostoyevsky Area of St. Petersburg
1:00:41 Troika Restaurant
1:02:09 St. Isaac's Cathedral
1:02:30 St. Isaac's Square
1:03:23 Cathedral Interior
1:07:34 The Admiralty Building
1:08:17 Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood
1:08:54 Church Interior
1:11:29 Walk Around Colorful Exterior
1:15:23 Russian Folklore Show
1:19:41 Ship Yard Area of St. Petersburg
1:20:30 Annunciation Bridge
1:21:58 Rostral Columns
1:24:29 Senate Square
1:24:57 The Palace Embankment
1:26:01 Neva River
1:30:09 Hermitage Museum (Winter Palace)
1:31:24 Small Throne Room
1:32:08 St. George's Hall
1:32:35 Pavilion Hall
1:33:45 Works by Rembrandt
1:35:14 Works by Leonardo da Vinci
1:35:30 Works by Raphael
1:36:07 Crouching Boy by Michelangelo
1:36:27 Skylight Rooms
1:38:48 Palace Square/Alexander Column
1:40:47 Boat Cruise on Moika & Neva Rivers
1:42:48 The Green Bridge/Nevsky Prospect
1:44:16 Pevchesky Bridge
1:45:41 The Winter Canal
1:47:57 Enter Neva River
1:48:13 Peter and Paul Fortress
1:49:30 Trinity Bridge
1:51:05 Return to Moika River
1:56:22 Anichkov Bridge over Fontanka River
1:56:51 Armenian Lunch Stop
1:57:21 Yusupov Palace
2:04:57 Nevsky Prospect
2:05:38 Our Lady of Kazan Cathedral
2:07:04 Church of St. Catherine
2:07:44 Grand Hotel Europe
2:08:41 Gostiny Dvor (Oldest Department Store)
2:10:28 Catherine's Garden
2:11:30 Monument to Catherine the Great
2:12:17 Alexandrinsky Theatre
2:14:32 Swan Lake Ballet
2:18:00 Moscow Station
2:18:26 High Speed Sapsan Train to Moscow
2:22:43 Arrive at Moscow's Leningradsky Station
2:23:05 Drive to Red Square
2:26:30 Red Square
2:27:47 GUM Department Store
2:28:49 Moscow Metro Stations (Subway)
2:38:47 Radisson Blu Belorusskaya Hotel
2:39:45 Drive back to Red Square
2:41:05 State Duma Building
2:41:39 Bolshoi Theatre
2:42:43 KGB Headquarters
2:43:22 Moscow River
2:43:38 The Kremlin
2:47:49 Cathedral of Jesus Christ the Saviour
2:48:30 Pashkov House
2:49:56 Manege Square
2:50:27 World Clock Fountain
2:51:25 State Historical Museum
2:52:06 Resurrection Gate
2:52:20 Red Square
2:52:31 Kazan Cathedral
2:52:51 State Historical Museum
2:53:20 GUM Department Store
2:54:17 St. Basil's Cathedral
2:55:27 Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
2:56:31 The Kremlin
2:57:03 Trinity Tower
2:57:31 The Arsenal
2:57:50 State Kremlin Palace
2:58:02 Senate Building
2:58:17 Church of the Twelve Apostles
2:58:33 Tsar Cannon
2:59:16 Tsar Bell
2:59:45 Cathedral Square
3:00:23 Cathedral of the Archangel
3:00:42 Ivan the Great Bell Tower
3:01:02 Assumption Cathedral
3:01:39 Church of the Deposition of the Robe
3:01:46 Cathedral of the Annunciation
3:02:05 Grand Kremlin Palace
3:02:14 The Armoury Chamber
3:02:20 Drive through Moscow
3:03:28 Gorky Park
3:04:32 Gardens Ring
3:06:18 Old Arbat Street
3:08:11 Novodevichy Cemetery
3:10:44 Grave of Boris Yeltsin
3:11:01 Grave of Raisa Gorbachev
3:11:47 Grave of Nikita Khrushchev
3:12:49 Novodevichy Convent
3:14:09 The Russian White House
3:15:11 Triumphal Arch of Moscow
3:15:36 War Memorial at the Poklonnaia Gora
3:17:18 Olympic Stadium
3:17:46 Zagorsk (Sergiyev Posad)
3:18:34 Trinity Monastery of St. Sergii
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3 Days in St. Petersburg, Russia - Visiting Peterhof, The Canals, and The Hermitage Museum
Top Sights and Things to do in St. Petersburg, Russia. As an American, I felt very safe traveling here. The city is much more massive than I realized. All the buildings are painted in light pleasing colors that contrast well against the typically grey skies. Pleasing enough to almost cause one to forget to notice the lack of trees!
In a few days you can see the canals, the churches and cathedrals, and most importantly, the Hermitage! Much like the Met in NYC, you could spend a week here and still not cover everything.
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Catherine Palace Pushkin St Petersburg Russia Gorgeous Day!
Now, one of the highlilghts of our St Petersburg trip, the Catherine Palace at Pushkin. This was the summer palace of the Russian Tsars. This place was almost destroyed (80%) during World War II, before the Germans retreated after the seige of Leningrad, now called St Petersburg, (yes the Germans controlled this part), they burnt the Palace. Restoring it has taken decades, with work still ongoing. Description of the Palace from Wiki:
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.[citation needed]
More than 100 kilograms of gold were used to gild the sophisticated stucco façade and numerous statues erected on the roof. It was even rumoured that the palace's roof was constructed entirely of gold. In front of the palace a great formal garden was laid out. It centres on the azure-and-white Hermitage Pavilion near the lake, designed by Mikhail Zemtsov in 1744, remodelled 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.
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We sail on the Royal Caribbean Serenade of the Seas 7N Baltic Seas cruise out of Copenhagen Denmark, sailing to Stockholm (Sweden), Tallinn (Estonia), St Petersburg (Russia) and Helsinki (Finland). Our sailing was late May 2016. Launched in 2003, the Serenade of the Seas is a retrofitted Radiance class cruise ship. We stayed in a gorgeous Family Oceanview cabin 1054 and had a wonderful time. Follow my cruise critic review -
4th Largest Cathedral in the World - St Isaac's Cathedral in St. Petersburg Russia
Saint Isaac's Cathedral or Isaakievskiy Sobor (Russian: Исаа́киевский Собо́р) in Saint Petersburg, Russia, is the largest Russian Orthodox cathedral (sobor) in the city. It is the largest orthodox basilica and the fourth largest (by the volume under the cupola) cathedral in the world. It is dedicated to Saint Isaac of Dalmatia, a patron saint of Peter the Great, who had been born on the feast day of that saint.
The church on St Isaac's Square was ordered by Tsar Alexander I, to replace an earlier structure by Vincenzo Brenna, and was the fourth consecutive church standing at this place. A specially appointed commission examined several designs, including that of the French-born architect Auguste de Montferrand (1786–1858), who had studied in the atelier of Napoleon's designer, Charles Percier. Montferrand's design was criticised by some members of the commission for the dry and allegedly boring rhythm of its four identical pedimented octastyle porticos. It was also suggested that despite gigantic dimensions, the edifice would look squat and not very impressive. The members of the commission, which consisted of well-known Russian architects, were also particularly concerned by necessity to build a new huge building on the old unsecure foundation. The emperor, who favoured the ponderous Empire style of architecture, had to step in and solve the dispute in Montferrand's favour.
The cathedral took 40 years to construct, under Montferrand's direction, from 1818 to 1858. To secure the construction, the cathedral's foundation was strengthened by driving 25,000 piles into the fenland of Saint Petersburg. Innovative methods were created to erect the giant columns of the portico. The construction costs of the cathedral totalled an incredible sum of 1 000 000 gold rubles. Under the Soviet government, the building was stripped of religious trappings. In 1931, it was turned into the Museum of the History of Religion and Atheism, the dove sculpture was removed, and replaced by a Foucault pendulum. On April 12, 1931, the first public demonstration of the Foucault pendulum was held to visualize Copernicus’s theory. In 1937, the museum was transformed into the museum of the Cathedral, and former collections were transferred to the Museum of the History of Religion (located in the Kazan Cathedral).
During World War II, the dome was painted over in gray to avoid attracting attention from enemy aircraft. On its top, in the skylight, a geodesical intersection point was placed, to determine the positions of German artillery batteries.
With the fall of communism, the museum was removed and regular worship activity has resumed in the cathedral, but only in the left-hand side chapel. The main body of the cathedral is used for services on feast days only.
On January 10, 2017 Georgy Poltavchenko, the Governor of St. Petersburg, announced that the Cathedral would be transferred to the Russian Orthodox Church.
Famous Landmarks of St. Petersburg | Peter and Paul Fortress
Our charming rep Vera welcomes you back in Saint Petersburg and invites you to explore another treasure of the city - Peter and Paul's Fortress. Learn all about the first building established by the emperor Peter the Great and when the beautiful city celebrates its birthday.
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The first residential building in St. Petersburg: Cabin of Peter the Great
The cabin of Peter the Great (is a small wooden house which was the first St Petersburg palace of Tsar Peter I.
The log cabin was constructed in three days in May 1703, by soldiers of the Semyonovskiy Regiment. At that time, the new St Petersburg was described as a heap of villages linked together, like some plantation in the West Indies. The date of its construction is now considered to mark the foundation of the city.
The design is a combination of an izba, a traditional Russian countryside house typical of the 17th century, and the Tsar's beloved Dutch Baroque, later to evolve into the Petrine Baroque. Peter built similar domiki elsewhere in Russia - for example, in Voronezh, and Vologda. The wooden cabin in St Petersburg covers only 60 square meters (650 sq ft) and contains three rooms - living room, bedroom, and study. It has large ornate windows and a high hipped roof of wooden tiles. Inside, the wooden walls were painted with red oil to resemble brick, and the rooms came to be known as the red chambers. There are no fires or chimneys, as it was intended to be used only in the warmer summer months. It was occupied by the Tsar between 1703 and 1708, while Peter supervised the construction of the new imperial city and the Peter and Paul Fortress.
The cabin was moved to its present location, 6 Petrovskaia Naberezhnaia, in 1711 from its original site on the north bank of the River Neva close to the present Winter Palace. Peter had it encased for its protection within a red brick pavilion in 1723 and ordered that it be preserved for posterity as a memorial to his modesty, and the creation of St Petersburg ex nihilo. Catherine the Great ordered the shelter for the cabin to be renovated in 1784, and the protective brick pavilion was reconstructed by Nicholas I in the 1840s. Nicholas I also had the bedroom converted into a chapel dedicated to Christ the Redeemer, and iron railings were added in 1874.
Peter's domiki were used to mark significant dates, such as the bicentenary of Peter's birth in 1672. They became a center of devotion to the tsar, the Russian Orthodox Church, and the Russian motherland. An image of the log cabin was included on the Peter the Great Fabergé egg, created in 1903 to celebrate the bicentenary of the founding of St Petersburg. After the Russian Revolution, they became symbols of Russian heroic labor.
A prized national monument, the contents were removed, and the Cabin was boarded up and camouflaged during the Second World War. It was the first St Petersburg museum to reopen in September 1944, after the end of the Siege of Leningrad. Personal and domestic objects owned and used by Peter are still displayed within, and a bust of Peter by Parmen Zabello stands outside. The cabin is open to the public as a branch of the Russian Museum.
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Travel Russia - Touring Kizhi Island
Take a tour of Architecture of Kizhi Island in Russia -- part of the World's Greatest Attractions series by GeoBeats.
Stepping onto Kizhi Island is like stepping into an illustration from a story book.
The island is home to some of the most captivating wooden architecture in the world.
There are over 80 wooden buildings, all unique, on this tiny island.
Ordinary buildings, like the Church of the Transfiguration, look like fantastical palaces and otherworldly constructions.
The domes, spires, carvings, edifices, and decorations found here are unlike anything else in the world.
Instead of nails, all the wooden buildings are held together using interconnecting wood pieces.
Kizhi Island generates so much interest that the entire island is now an outdoor museum.
The State Hermitage Museum
The collection of the State Hermitage includes more than three million works of art and artefacts of the world culture. Among them are paintings, graphic works, sculptures and works of applied art, archaeological finds and numismatic material.
The main architectural ensemble of the Hermitage situated in the centre of St Petersburg consists of the Winter Palace, the former state residence of the Russian emperors, the buildings of the Small, Old (Great) and New Hermitages, the Hermitage Theatre and the Auxiliary House. The museum complex also includes the Menshikov Palace and the Eastern Wing of the General Staff building, the Staraya Derevnya Restoration and Storage Centre and the Museum of the Imperial Porcelain Factory.
Saint Petersburg, Catherine Palace - Russia 4K Travel Channel
It is almost a miracle if one sees pictures of the Catherine Palace after the 2nd World War and then stands today in front of the reconstructed palace. After the war it was completely burnt out, the roof was missing and the bare brick walls soar into the air.
Today, it shines once again in the old splendor of the 18th century.
But from the beginning. We reach Puschkin, a suburb, about 25 km south of St Petersburg directly from the airport. After leaving the car, we stand in front of a small church, the Church of the Annunciation. Empress Elisabeth I built it at the location, where Catherine I once set up a wooden church.
To the right is the Lyceum, where Pushkin spent 6 years. On the left is a park with a monument of Pushkin.
A part of the Orchestra the Catherine Palace plays in front of the entrance to the Catherine Palace.
We walk around the buildings of the forecourt to get an overall impression of this imposing building. Originally, all facade decorations were gilded, but after a short time, it was clear that due to the weather this was not a good idea. Catherine II had them replaced with ocher-colored paint. Only the domes of the church remained gilded. This did not change the overall impression very much.
Artfully designed fences and entrance gates shield the grounds. Chinese temples and figures adorn this part of the park. In the background is a Chinese village. In the distance, we see the arsenal. This part of the park also houses the Alexander Palace.
We enter the Catherine Palace via the large stairwell, decorated with white Carrara marble. Chinese vases adorn the walls. We come to the ballroom. It is decorated with extensive gold-painted decorations so that we just can't stop wondering. After that, we turn in the opposite direction.
An almost endless set of rooms for guests, food, and bedrooms follows. Notable among many decorative details are miniature landscapes and artificial fruit bowls on the dining tables, as Catherine II liked it.
Among all these rooms is also the Amber room.
Originally built for the Berlin Palace, the Prussian king Frederick William I exchanged it with the Tsar Peter the Great against Dragoons.
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Es grenzt beinahe an ein Wunder, wenn man Bilder vom Katharinenpalastes nach dem 2. Weltkrieg gesehen hat und dann heute vor dem wieder aufgebauten Schloss steht. Nach dem Krieg war es ausgebrannt, das Dach fehlte und die nackten Ziegelmauern ragten in die Höhe.
Heute strahlt es wieder, wie im 18. Jahrhundert.
Doch von Anfang an. Wir erreichen Puschkin, einen Vorort, ca. 25 km südlich von St. Petersburg direkt vom Flughafen aus. Nachdem wir das Auto verlassen haben stehen wir vor einer kleinen Kirche, der Maria-Verkündigungskirche, die Kaiserin Elisabeth I. an der Stelle erbauen ließ, an der Katharina I einst eine hölzerne Kapelle errichten ließ.
Rechts daneben befindet sich das Lyzeum, das Puschkin 6 Jahre lang besuchte und links wurde ein Park errichtet mit einem Denkmal von Puschkin.
Vor dem Eingang zum Katharinenpalast spielt ein Teil des Orchesters des Katharinenpalastes.
Wir gehen außen um die Gebäude des Vorplatzes herum, um einen Gesamteindruck dieses imposanten Gebäudes zu erhalten. Ursprünglich waren alle Dekorteile der Fassade vergoldet, aber schon nach kurzer Zeit stellte man fest, dass dies witterungsbedingt keine so gute Idee ist. Katharina II ließ sie ockerfarben streichen. Nur die Kuppeln der Kirche blieben weiterhin vergoldet. Am Gesamteindruck des Gebäudes ändert das wenig.
Kunstvoll gestaltete Zäune und Eingangstore schirmen das Gelände ab.
Chinesische Tempel und Figuren schmücken diesen Teil des Parks. Im Hintergrund ist ein chinesisches Dorf zu erkennen. In der Ferne ist das Arsenal zu sehen. Außerdem ist in diesem Teil des Parks der Alexanderpalast errichtet worden.
Wir betreten das Schloss im großen Treppenhaus, das mit weißem Carrara-Marmor ausgestaltet ist. Chinesische Vasen schmücken die Wände. Wir kommen in den Ballsaal. Er ist übermäßig mit vergoldeten Dekorationen verziert, so dass wir aus dem Staunen kaum herauskommen.
Danach wenden wir uns in die entgegengesetzte Richtung.
Eine schier endlose Flucht von Gäste-, Speise-, und Schlafzimmern reihen sich an einander. Auffällig neben vielen dekorativen Details sind Miniaturlandschaften und künstliche Obstschalen auf den Speisetischen, wie sie Katharina II geliebt hatte.
Unter all diesen Zimmern ist auch das Bernsteinzimmer. Ursprünglich für das Berliner Stadtschloss gebaut, tauschte es der Preußenkönig Friedrich Wilhelm I mit dem Zaren Peter dem Großen gegen Dragoner.
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