Great Gatchina Palace
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The Great Gatchina Palace is a palace in Gatchina, Leningrad Oblast, Russia. It was built from 1766 to 1781 by Antonio Rinaldi for Count Grigori Grigoryevich Orlov, who was a favourite of Catherine th
Southern façade of the palace
Original dressing room for Count Orlov in the 1780s. Eduard Hau, 1880.
The Chesma Gallery in the Neoclassical style of the 1790s. Eduard Hau, 1877.
The Gatchina Palace, a Fabergé egg featuring a miniature replica of the Gatchina Palace.
Alexander III of Russia
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Alexander III was Emperor of Russia, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Finland from 13 March 1881 until his death in 1894. He was highly reactionary in domestic affairs and reversed some of the liberal
Great Gatchina Palace
…and renovations in the main Gatchina Palace until his assassination in Saint Petersburg in 1881. Gatchina Palace was passed to his shaken son, the new Tsar Alexander III, who was advised that he and his family would be safer at the palace as opposed to at the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg, and became known as "The…
Portrait photograph by Sergey Levitsky, 1885
Grand painting by artist Georges Becker of the coronation of Emperor Alexander III and Empress Maria Fyodorovna, which took place on 27 May [O.S. 15 May] 1883 at the Uspensky Sobor of the Moscow Kremlin. On the left of the dais can be seen his young son and heir, the Tsarevich Nicholas, and behind Nicholas can be seen a young Grand Duke George.
Alexander receiving rural district elders in the yard of Petrovsky Palace in Moscow; painting by Ilya Repin
Alexander III arriving at Fontell House (also known as "The House of Emperor") for the first time on 4 August 1885, in Lappeenranta, Finland.