| Band playing patriotic songs - many countries | Outer "wall" |
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| Moses' wife, local guide, Moses in front, Dr. and nurse and Austin couple
| Annie - guide from ship |
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| Gardens behind the house (pardon - palace!) | Great looking Flautist |
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| Grand Ball Room | Dinning Room |
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| Notice the doorways that keep repeating | Stove to heat the room |
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| Walls and all furniture made of Amber. Destroyed in WWII - foreign companies are paying for restoration |
All walls in this room were covered floor to ceiling in oil paintings. |
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| Lee and I love the colors in this room! | The Blue Room - lapis lamp |
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| Chinese Room - hand embroidered silk coverings on wall |
Ceilings and floors were matched patterns |
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| Gerry
| Peter the Great |
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| Maria Feodorovna's bedroom with 45 columns around where bed used to be. |
Bedchamber of Maria Feodorovna 1780's |
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| Blue State Drawing Room 1780's |
Lapis table - note the blue "booties" we had to wear to protect floor. |
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| Crimison Room - 1750's |
Chinese Drawing Room - 1781 |
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| Picture Hall 1750's |
Agate Pavilion. The Great Hall 1780 |
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| Great Hall - 1750 |
Cavaliers in Attendance Dining Room |
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| Amber Study |
Green Drawing Room - 1780's |
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| Garden front of Catherine Palace |
Liliacs! |
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| Ceiling detail |
Ceiling detail |
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