Winter Palace Images
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The Armorial Hall, or Guard Room (11 on plan), is decorated with vast stucco panoplies.
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Gates to the Winter Palace. The gilded emblems of Imperial Russia, torn down in 1917, are now fully restored.
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The Malachite Room, seat of the Provisional Government, who were arrested in the adjoining Private Dining Room. Painting by Konstantin Ukhtomsky.
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In 1914, the Tsar and Empress bless their troops from the balcony of the Winter Palace.
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St George's Hall (13), 1906: the throne draped and flanked by the Imperial Romanov regalia, the Imperial family (to the left of the throne) and the 1st State Duma witness the Tsar opening the first Duma. The Tsar's sister believed: "The workmen....looked as though they hated us".[87]
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Nicholas II, last Emperor of all the Russias, in the Nicholas Hall. Portrait by Earnest Lipgart, early 1900s.
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Nicholas II and the Empress dressed as Alexis I and Maria Miloslavskaya, for the Winter Palace's last Imperial ball, in 1903
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The Atlantes portico of Nicholas I's New Hermitage, Russia's first public art gallery
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The Winter Palace's Grand Church today retains its original rococo decoration. The onion dome above it is one of the few concessions to an older Russian architecture allowed to be visible from the exterior. Painting by Eduard Hau.
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Plan showing the use and division of the principal floor, as occupied in the 1840s. 1 (red): state and most formal rooms; 2 (dark green): apartments of the Tsar; 3 (pink): apartments of the Empress; 4: apartments of the Tsarevich, other times part of principal guest suite; 5: apartments of the Tsarevna; 6: apartments reserved for guests of the highest rank and members of the Imperial Family; 7: nurseries of the 3rd and the 4th in line to the throne; 8: general private rooms of the Imperial Family; 9: principal guest suite, used immediately after their marriage by Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna and her husband.
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The Small Throne Room (10 on plan) was created by Auguste de Montferrand in 1833. It has columns of jasper. Diplomats gathered here on New Year's Day to offer good wishes to the Emperor.[31]
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The Nicholas Hall (6 on plan) is the principal reception room, at the centre of the Neva enfilade. This room was the setting for court balls. Painting by Konstantin Ukhtomsky.[31]
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The Rotunda (26). This circular hall, dating from the early 19th century, links the state and private rooms of the palace, and represents the final and neoclassical stage of the palace's evolution. Painting by Yefim Tukharinov.
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Rembrandt's Portrait of a Scholar purchased in 1769. The painting is one of several by Rembrandt in the former Imperial Collection.
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Frans Hals' Portrait of a Man with a Glove, purchased for the Winter Palace in 1764
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St George's Hall (13 on plan above), the principal throne room of the Tsars of Russia. The room was a late addition to the Palace for Catherine II. Painting by Konstantin Ukhtomsky.
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The principal or "Jordan Staircase", (8 on the plan below), so-called because on the Feast of the Epiphany the Tsar descended this Imperial staircase in state for the ceremony of the "Blessing of the Waters". It is one of the few parts of the palace retaining Rastrelli's 18th century rococo style. The massive grey granite columns were, however, added in the mid-19th century. Painting by Konstantin Ukhtomsky.[20]
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The third Winter Palace of 1727. Designed by Domenico Trezzini it incorporated the second Winter Palace of 1721 by Georg Mattarnovy as one of its terminating pavilions. c.1732
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The first Winter Palace, designed in 1711 for Peter the Great, by Domenico Trezzini who, 16 years later, was to design the third Winter Palace
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