Pushkin, Saint Petersburg
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Pushkin is a municipal town in Pushkinsky District of the federal city of St. Petersburg, Russia, located 24 kilometers south from the center of St. Petersburg proper, and its railway station, Tsarsko
Catherine Palace
Coat of arms
Empress Elizabeth of Russia in Tsarskoye Selo (Eugene Lanceray, gouache, 1905)
Tsarskoye Selo, postcard of 1904
Amber Room
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The Amber Room was a chamber decorated in amber panels backed with gold leaf and mirrors, located in the Catherine Palace of Tsarskoye Selo near Saint Petersburg.
Pushkin, Saint Petersburg
…and 1756 the reconstruction was led by Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli, and the present look of the palace has not changed much since then. In 1755, the Amber Room was moved from the Winter Palace to the Catherine Palace. The gardens were extended and decorated with sculptures and pavilions. A canal was dug from…
Hand-coloured photograph of the original Amber Room, 1931
Reconstructed Amber Room, 2003
Corner section of the reconstructed Amber Room
Equestrian statue of Frederick the Great in the Amber Chamber, Autochrome Lumière in 1917