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Great Gatchina Palace: Interior detail, Arsenal Block drawing room

Date

Circa 1910

Creator

G. Massiot & cie
Part of: Architectural Lantern Slides of Russia (includes present-day Ukraine and Georgia)
Architecture Library, Hesburgh Libraries

The drawing room on the ground floor of the Arsenal Block was noted for its plafond moulded gilt ornamentation, 18th-century German landscapes, gilded bronze and the mid-nineteenth-century set of furniture by Petersburg cabinet-makers.

In the spring of 1766 work began at Gatchina on a palace designed by Rinaldi for Count Grigory Grigoryevich Orlov (1734-1783); it was completed in 1781. The main block, of three-storeys and surmounted by towers on the side facing the park, was linked by open curving galleries to single-storey square service buildings. Reminiscent of Palladio's country villas, the palace exemplifies the increasing influence of Neo-classicism on Rinaldi's work. Some rooms, for example the White Hall and Oval Boudoir, have partially retained the decoration of Rinaldi's day. The palace was a favorite of Catherine the Great, who purchased it from Orlov.

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G. Massiot & cie
Date
Circa 1910
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