DAY 6, August 1, 2012:
Catherine Palace & Gardens, Pushkin:
From Vostaniya , took the tube to Vietbsky at 8 AM, walked over to the Vokzal, went upwards 1st flooring as well as right upwards to platform as well as bought render tickets for the suburban prepare as well as got into the 1 standing right there, ... must state it was a picayune tough to honour the ticket counter as nosotros had to cross over many halls as well as go right upwards to the platform
Guess this is to live expected as all these vokzals receive got long distance trains going fifty-fifty to dissimilar countries--so tracing a suburban department is a picayune difficult...
Reached Destskoe Selo vokzal inwards xxx min, took a marshrutka as well as landed at the palace grounds earlier 9am.
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 lady who was working at the palace guided us to instruct downwardly at the right halt as she heard us enquiring the driver where to instruct down.. nosotros were cry for "ekaterininisky (catherine's) dvorets (palace)...sledushya(next) stansiya (station)?"
As usual, nosotros were the solely ones on the palace grounds as well as enjoyed the ambience.
This regular utilisation of the Catherine Park occupies the surface area betwixt the Catherine Palace, the Cascade Ponds as well as the Great Pond. The cardinal alley of the Old Garden –
On this terrace that runs parallel to the façade of the Catherine Palace Federal Reserve annotation the patterned parterre that resembles the parquet floors within the palace.
There are special admission hours for independent travelers inwards Pushkin from 12:00 to 14:00 as well as from 16:00 to 17:00...our programme had been to purchase the palace tickets for a watch at 12 noon or four PM when the ticket counter opened at 9.30 as well as and thence go to Pavlosk to run into the palace as well as gardens at that spot earlier returning here....
However, the regime were letting inwards the guided groups at 9AM as well as were going to sell tickets for individuals solely at 12.
We had to hold off inwards queue for over 2 hours to instruct the ticket as well as simultaneously instruct inwards instead of getting the ticket inwards advance as well as using our fourth dimension better....oh well, nosotros rolled alongside the punch....
The town's original name, Tsarskoye Tselo (Tsar's Village), comes from the palaces as well as parks built past times Empresses Catherine I (Peter the Great's instant wife) as well as Elizabeth I (their daughter). Catherine's Palace (Yekaterinsky Dvorets) is the world's longest palace, at 300m (984 ft.)
In the Soviet era, the town was named after Russian poet Alexander Pushkin, who studied hither for 6 years inwards the early on 19th century as well as after had a dacha (country house) inwards town. The town has since readopted its pre-revolutionary name, but many Russians soundless refer to it as Pushkin.
We had to live utilisation of a guided tour inwards Russian. We however, looked closed to on our own
Cavaliers’ Dining-Room:
The get-go room beyond the Great Hall is the Cavaliers’ Dining-Room. It is non specially large as well as thence the architect placed mirrors as well as imitation windows containing mirrors on the walls, making the hall spacious as well as bright.
The Cavaliers’ Dining-Room is adorned past times a multi-tiered tiled stove alongside cobalt painting, columns as well as niches. Heating stoves similar this are an inseparable utilisation of all the province rooms inwards the principal suite of the palace.
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 duo of internet pics here...
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 duo of internet pics here...
The handling of the interior is typical of the Baroque, dominated past times carved as well as golden decoration of stylized flowers as well as seashells. The golden dessus-de-porte – over-door – compositions are specially magnificent....
The Great Ballroom:
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These video grabs are grainy because our photographic television camera video setting was inadvertently at depression res...
Models inwards majestic costumes were available for photos...here are some online pics of the Ballroom alongside no crowd...
There is a dominion that guided groups tin give the sack watch St Petersburg without a Russian visa as well as all cruises receive got payoff of this
Several cruise ships dock at st petersburg as well as guides receive got groups to all the attractions
Even other tourists pay 100$ to the guides to live utilisation of gruops as they honour it hard to negotiate trips on their own. Result---we run into lots as well as lots of groups rushing behind guides asset a flag on a stick--quite a funny sight inwards all tourist spots.Independent tourists similar us are few as well as far between
Green pilaster room:
This is the Green pilaster room.
To exercise a dissimilar look, the architect used colored metallic foils on the wall, as well as thence covered them alongside drinking glass as well as framed them inwards gold.
Red pilaster room:
There is a similar blood-red pilaster room as well. rattling ingenious of the architect.
Elizabeth had 13000 ball costumes--never repeated a political party dress... this is Catherine the great
The silk textile as well as the embellishments were great
AMBER ROOM:
The amazing amber room...
In Nov 1716 after an alliance, Prussian manly mortal monarch William I gave Peter the Great gifts that included the Amber Study.
His daughter, Empress Elizabeth, flora a utilisation for the precious gift from Berlin inwards the novel residence that was existence built for her – the 3rd Winter Palace inwards 1743.
His daughter, Empress Elizabeth, flora a utilisation for the precious gift from Berlin inwards the novel residence that was existence built for her – the 3rd Winter Palace inwards 1743.
In July 1755 Elizabeth ordered to exercise a novel Amber Room inwards the Great Palace at Tsarskoye Selo (the Catherine Palace) but since at that spot were non plenty panels, lower walls were painted to aspect similar amber.
In 1763 Empress Catherine II got the painted canvass replaced alongside newly-made amber panels.
During Nazi invasion inwards June 1941, the evacuation of museum treasures from the Catherine Palace began. ... newspaper was pasted over the panels, as well as thence gauze, as well as thence cotton wool wool as well as wooden boards.
High German specialists for plundering industrial plant of fine art spotted as well as removed the amber panels as well as dispatched to Königsberg... trail of original amber study ends here... the panels hither are recent replacements
Adjoining the Picture Hall is the Small White Dining-Room (1752)which was the get-go room inwards the personal apartments of Empress Elizabeth as well as after her of Catherine II, who inwards her plough passed them over to her favorite grandson, the hereafter Emperor Alexander I.
The walls are lined alongside white damask inwards carved as well as golden frames; The interior also features a stove alongside “Hamburg” tiles, mirrors inwards carved as well as golden frames as well as a patterned parquet flooring – traditional elements of Baroque décor...Parquetry is a geometric mosaic of forest pieces used for decorative effect....
Amber:
Amber is produced from a marrow discharged past times trees belonging to the pino genus, similar mucilage from the cherry, as well as resin from the ordinary pine. It is a liquid at first, which issues forth inwards considerable quantities, as well as is gradually hardened
Many trees make resin, but inwards the bulk of cases this deposit is broken downwardly past times physical as well as biological process. Exposure to sunlight, rain, as well as temperate extremes tends to disintegrate resin, as well as the procedure is assisted past times microorganisms such as bacteria as well as fungi. For resin to hold upwards long plenty to go amber, it must live resistant to such forces or live produced nether weather condition that exclude them... takes millions of years
The classical cry for amber was electrum (ἤλεκτρον ēlektron), connected to a term for the "beaming Sun", ἠλέκτωρ (ēlektōr). According to the myth, when Phaëton boy of Helios (the Sun) was killed, his mourning sisters became poplars, as well as their tears became the source of elektron, amber
Waiters’ Room :
On display hither today are marquetry card-tables from the piece of cake eighteenth century, a Swedish-made breast of drawers from the instant one-half of that century as well as mahogany chairs made past times Russian craftsmen inwards the nineteenth century
The walls are hung alongside paintings from the Tsarskoye Selo collection: a Mountain Landscape past times Murillo, a View from the Palatine Hill past times Pietro Labruzzi, a Waterfall at Tivoli past times Andrea Locatelli as well as Ruins past times Alexei Belsky
This is the stance of the royal gardens from the palace
The cardinal alley of the Old Garden – the principal compositional axis of the entire palace-and-park ensemble – connects the palace alongside the Hermitage pavilion.
From inwards forepart of the palace nosotros tin give the sack clearly run into the partitioning of the surface area into 2 parts: the upper department (in forepart of the Catherine Palace) alongside descending terraces connected past times flights of stone steps, as well as the lower section.
The other rooms opened upwards to visitors are lovely as well...
The other rooms opened upwards to visitors are lovely as well...
Grand staircase:
This is the grand staircase
Souvenir shop:
At the souvenir store alongside the lovely Russian dolls
Took a video of the lovely amber jewellery as well as arts and crafts pieces available at the shop
Malachite pieces...
Malachite pieces...
Catherine Park:
The Catherine Park is made upwards of 2 parts: the Regular Park – Old Garden – as well as the Landscape (English) Park. The Old or Dutch Garden was begun past times Peter I himself. Dutch original gardeners position out the Old Garden inwards the 1720s on 3 terraces inwards forepart of the majestic palace
The gardens receive got 2 parts, the erstwhile garden and the landscape (English) park
This is the erstwhile garden alongside lovely summertime flowers inwards total bloom on a cool summertime day...
The background edifice is the 2 storey classical trend Cold Bath (1780). Its lower flooring contained a bathing hall, a warm bath as well as a Russian steam bath. The upper flooring consisted of vi richly finished rooms for relaxation as well as amusements that became known as the Agate Rooms. the eighteenth-century décor of the Agate Rooms has survived .
The Urals had novel deposits of jasper, agate, cornelian as well as other semi precious minerals. Russian lapidary industrial plant made articles from hard semiprecious stone as well as decorated palace halls. For decorating the instant storey using jasper Cameron prepared designs for 2 jasper cabinets. twelve centimetres of masonry was knocked off the walls of these small-scale rooms; then covered alongside limestone slabs as well as faced alongside jasper using the “Russian mosaic” technique. The principal difficulty was the finishing run – grinding as well as polishing the coloured stone. The polishers had to give a mirror-like sheen to closed to 2 hundred foursquare metres of walls, architraves as well as cornices. Russian craftsmen carried out this run past times hand.
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THE CAMERON GALLERY:
This is THE CAMERON GALLERY
There were several newly married couples taking pics inwards the palace pavilions inwards the gardens..
The gallery that Empress Catherine II conceived as a house for strolls as well as philosophical conversations is located on the gradient of a loma on the boundary betwixt the regular as well as landscape areas of the Catherine Park nearly the Catherine Palace.
The walls of the lower storey of the gallery are faced alongside rusticated Pudost stone as well as pierced past times arched mullioned windows. The lower storey serves as a base of operations for the colonnade above, which consists of 44 white fluted columns alongside Ionic capitals.
The large windows of the glazed hall inwards the cardinal utilisation of the upper storey brand it completely transparent. The juxtaposing of the mighty arcade of the lower storey as well as the low-cal upper 1 determines the aesthetic impression created past times the Cameron Gallery as well as embodies the philosophical thought of the eternal contrast of existence.
Again a cloudy solar daytime but pelting held off at Pushkin...Mirror Pond on the 3rd terrace as well as on the current called Vangaza flows downwardly the loma where at that spot are 2 to a greater extent than ponds: the Upper (Great) Pond as well as the Mill Pond ( Cascade or Lower Ponds).
The blood-red buildings inwards the background is complex of 3 pavilions known as the Admiralty on the banking enterprise of the Great Pond inwards the Landscape Park (the Catherine Park)
Another newly espouse duo inwards the background nearly the lake...
The lower flooring of the cardinal block was used for the storage of the boats on which courtiers took trips on the Great Pond. In the nineteenth century it contained a collection of rowing vessels from dissimilar countries of the world, including Catherine II’s barges
The towers of the cardinal block incorporate staircases leading to a large, brilliant hall inwards the instant storey.
During Catherine II’s boat trips on the lake an orchestra would play here.
Flanking the cardinal pavilion are 2 blocks known as the Birdhouses or Aviaries. Various kinds of H2O birds (ducks as well as swans) used to live kept inwards them, as good as pheasants as well as peafowl. The principal edifice as well as 2 wings are linked past times a railing
The architectural complex of the Admiralty also included the Sailors’ House, located to the right of 1 of the Birdhouses. This was the living quarters of the oarsmen who inwards the eighteenth century provided boat trips as well as ferried people across to the isle inwards the Great Pond.
At acquaint the cardinal block of the Admiralty complex is used for temporary exhibitions, piece a eating theatre named The Admiralty industrial plant inwards 1 of the Birdhouses
Cameron treated the monumental steps alongside brilliant simplicity as well as embellished its buttresses alongside 2 colossal statues – of Hercules as well as Flora – cast inwards bronze.
Lower bathhouse intended for utilisation past times courtiers (1778)-- it has 10 rooms closed to a cardinal hall alongside a large circular tub. renovated inwards 2011, this pavilion has an exposition-- tin give the sack run into the people visiting it....
Bodies of H2O occupy a 5th of the surface area of the Catherine palace gardens
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The natural gradient of the terrain towards the north-east has made it possible to link all the bodies of H2O into a unmarried gravity-driven organisation .
Morea (or Small Rostral) Column:
The Morea (or Small Rostral) Column seen hither was position upwards at the junction of 3 alleys inwards the regular utilisation of the Catherine Park, past times the cascade betwixt the get-go as well as instant Lower Ponds as a monument to successes inwards the Russo-Turkish Wars. The column was erected inwards 1771, on the orders of Empress Catherine II,
The relatively brusk (7-metre) column is impressive from a distance. Its pedestal stands on a foursquare plinth raised slightly inwards a higher house the ground. The textile for the pedestal as well as the shaft of the column is grey Siberian marble alongside white veins, piece white Carrara marble was used for the uppercase as well as base. The column is topped alongside a small-scale cone-shaped obelisk of pinkish Tivdiya marble embellished alongside the stylized prows of ships (rostra inwards Latin) as a reminder that the victory involved the navy.....
Ducks receive got a champaign solar daytime existence fed past times the visitors. Statues abound...
Milkmaid fountain:
The Milkmaid fountain widely known as the Tsarskoye Selo Statue or The Girl alongside a Pitcher occupies a special house amid the common sculpture
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 granite stone serves as a pedestal for the bronze sculpture of a girl. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 jet of outflow H2O flows from the broken pitcher lying at her feet to collect inwards the adjoining basin. Originally this basin was made inwards the shape of a grotto entered past times steps of Pudost stone. The grotto solely existed until the middle of the nineteenth century.
At the outbreak of war, earlier High German units reached the town of Pushkin, the statue of the Milkmaid was buried inwards the the world as well as thence was non damaged. Today the bronze original of The Girl alongside a Pitcher is kept inwards the stores of the museum-preserve (the sculptor’s plaster model is inwards the State Russian Museum) as well as a copy, cast inwards 1990, has been position upwards inwards the park.
These gardens had only 1 fountain--after seeing complex materials at Peterhof the previous day, this was a dissimilar flavor...enjoyable inwards its ain way.
This is sculpture inwards award of Russian naval victories
Turkish Bath:
The “Turkish Bath” pavilion was erected on a small-scale headland inwards the south-west utilisation of the Great Pond betwixt 1850 as well as 1852 on the orders of Emperor Nicholas I. It was the final construction to live built on the territory of the Catherine Park.
This pavilion, devised as a memorial to the Russo-Turkish War of 1828–29, is designed similar a Turkish mosque. The dome of the edifice is decorated alongside relief ornament, piece the tall minaret crowned past times a spire as well as crescent give it a picturesque appearance
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The Chesme Column erected inwards 1774–78 to celebrate Russian naval victories inwards the state of war against Turkey is inwards the background to our left
There were a few pavilions opened upwards for visitors--We did non watch whatsoever though for paucity of time
Pyramid:
This is the Pyramid – 1 of the get-go pavilions inwards the Landscape Park (the Catherine Park) – was constructed inwards 1770–72 .
The Pyramid was deliberately placed aside from the principal path, thence that strollers lulled past times the serenity of the shady common mightiness come upwards upon it unexpectedly
The Pyramid is made of brick as well as faced alongside trimmed granite. One side is pierced past times the entrance. The room within the pavilion is covered past times a hemispherical vault alongside an opening inwards the centre. The walls incorporate niches for the storage of urns.
Behind the Pyramid, contrary the entrance, 3 of Catherine II’s favourite dogs were buried: Tom Anderson, Zemira as well as Duchesse.
After the watch to the palace, took off the plastic shoe covers inwards this room.
They had a lovely restroom --charging 25 rubles (less than a dollar) for use. We were grateful after the previous solar daytime Peterhof experience
Pavlosk Palace:
From Pushkin, boarded a autobus to Pavlosk. An erstwhile human asked gruffly where nosotros were going--thinking nosotros are taking the incorrect direction piece pregnant to render to Pushkin prepare station.
We were touched he was looking out for us. Another lady guided us where to instruct off for the Pavlosk palace... she made us instruct downwardly at the garden entrance though as well as nosotros reached the palace after a long trek of 2 miles thru wild woods inwards a steady drizzle...these are some overnice pics flora online showing the lovely English linguistic communication garden nosotros trudged through inwards drizzle...
We were moisture as well as mutual frigidity when nosotros arrived at the palace...but the beauty as well as poignant story of the royals made us forget our niggles...
We were moisture as well as mutual frigidity when nosotros arrived at the palace...but the beauty as well as poignant story of the royals made us forget our niggles...
2 palaces as well as 2 royal gardens inwards 1 day...sure was hectic as well as awesome...again past times a stroke of goodluck, a workman asked us where nosotros were going when nosotros were retracing our 2 mile trek dorsum to the entrance. nosotros said avtoboos... he said it is available nearly past times at the gate only 100m away.... nosotros gladly boarded the autobus as well as reached Catherine's Palace stop. From at that spot took some other autobus to the prepare station.
End of an Awesome day!
The side past times side solar daytime was equally, if non more, FABULOUS alongside a watch to Hermitage:
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End of an Awesome day!
The side past times side solar daytime was equally, if non more, FABULOUS alongside a watch to Hermitage:
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Russia Trip Report, Twenty-Four Hours 6: Catherine's Palace, Pushkin & Pavlosk Palace
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