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The Dressing Room with Portrait of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna by Charles Van Loo (1760). Silk fabric was used on wallpaper, curtains, and upholstery.
The Empress's Study.
The Passage or Standard Room. A connector way from the public to the private rooms of the royals. The big painting is PtG and Minerva. We saw one like this in the Winter Palace in the Throne Room.
Room for "Cavaliers in Attendance." Cavaliers and higher ranked guards stood on duty here in front of CtG's private quarters entrance. Delft heating stove and doors fit for a royal entrance or exit.
The Large Blue Drawing Room (previously the Blue Dining Room).
Gotta love all the wallpapers, mostly silk (not paper).
Southern Suite - The Third Reserve Room. These rooms were often used for guests.
I loved this window treatment. It may have been in the Oak Study.
One of the last rooms we entered was the Oak Study of PtG. Some of his personal belongs are still here. Among them are a traveling clock, two cabinet desks with secret compartments, a book titled "PtG's Decrees from 1714 to 28th January 1725," and a globe. It is a square room with a low ceiling, oak wood shutters, and carved panels. Quite manly, but cozy! This was our last inside stop.
We left through what seemed to be the servants' stairway, dropped off our booties into the "used" bin, and passed through the gift shop.
I must say this was the most organized of all our palace / church tours. Most rooms had signage in Russian and English, so I just took a photo of the sign, instead of doing a lot of note-taking or research later. The only problem was most signs also had a no-stopping symbol. We could not stop to really take it all in or take a great photo.
Next, on to the Lower Gardens.
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