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View from the garden. The Catherine Palace ( Russian: Екатерининский дворец, romanized : Yekaterininskiy dvorets) is a Rococo palace in Tsarskoye Selo ( Pushkin ), located 30 kilometres (19 mi) south of St. Petersburg, Russia. It was the summer residence of the Russian tsars.
Rastrelli's magnificent Catherine Palace is the main visitor attraction at Tsarskoe Selo. Find out more about the Catherine Palace and other sights in the town of Pushkin, near St. Petersburg.
11 Фото. Просмотреть галерею. The display of the Catherine Palace (known until 1910 as the Great Palace of Tsarskoe Selo) covers the 300-year history of this outstanding edifice and presents the work of architects involved in its construction and decoration in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and also with the ...
Mar 14, 2021 · Catherine Palace also known as the Great Palace of Tsarskoye Selo is one of the places that need to be on your to-do list while visiting St. Petersburg in Russia. The Palace is a testament to the late Baroque style. It displays two different architectural designs of the period it was constructed.
Jun 6, 2019 · Catherine Palace (c) Linda Garrison. Catherine Palace (also called Tsarskoye Selo or the Tsar's Village) is located in the small town of Pushkin, about 17 miles south of St. Petersburg, Russia. The palace's ornate, baroque design is breathtaking, and its 740 -meter (2427 feet) length is massive.
In St. Petersburg: Pushkin. The Catherine Palace (1717–23; enlarged by Aleksey V. Kvasov and Savva I. Chevakinsky, 1743–48; rebuilt by Rastrelli, 1752–57) is notable for its dimensions, the beauty and majesty of its form, and the wealth of its sculptural decoration. The golden suite of splendid halls (including the Amber….
Pushkin. The History of Pushkin. After Peter the Great had laid the foundations of St Petersburg, he set about making a palace for his second wife, Catherine I. Sarsky, as it was called by its Finnish inhabitants, had merely been an undistinguished village. But already by 1710, it was beginning to evolve into one of Russia’s grandest towns.
