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A Small Throne Room
Dedicated in 1833 to the memory of
~ Alexander Hall Peter the Great, this room houses a
Architect Aleksandr Bryullov
silver-gilt English throne made in 1731 .
employed a mixture of Gothic A Alexander Hall Malachite Room A
vaulting and Neo-Classical stucco More than 2 tons of
bas-reliefs of military themes in ornamental stone were
this reception room of 1837. French Rooms used in this sumptuous
Designed by Bryu llov room (1839), which is
in 1839, 1hese house a decorated with malachite
collection of 18th-century columns and vases,
French art. gilded doors, and rich
parquet flooring.
South fa~ de on
Palace Square
White Hall
This room was decor a ted
for the wedding of the
future Alexander II in 1841 .

A Dark Corridor
The French and Flemish
tapestries here include The
Marriage of Emperor
Constantine, made in Paris
in the 17th century to
designs by Rubens.

~ Golden Drawing Room
Created in the 1850s, this room
was extravagantly decorated in the
1870s with all-over gilding of walls
and ceiling. It houses a display of
Western European carved gems.
~ Dark Corridor

Gothic library STORMING THE PALACE
The wood-paneled library
was created by Meltzer in On the evening of October 25,
18 94. This, and other 1917, the Bolsheviks fired some
Rotunda rooms in 1he northwest blank shots at the Winter Pal ace,
Built in 1830, this connected part of 1he palace, were
the private apartments in the adapted to suit Nicholas storming it soon after to arrest
west with the state apartments ll's bourgeois lifestyle. the Provisional Government that
on 1he palace's north side. resided there. The Communists
took over power and the Russian
~ Malachite Room Revolution was a fact