18.01.2012 |
Announcements |
• Exhibition devoted to Tsars' children prolonged until April 2012
• Agate Rooms Exhibition at Cold Bath closed due to cold weather; re-opening TBA
• What else to visit at Tsarskoye Selo in winter 2011-2012
• Tsarskoye Selo on the web - .png "Tsarskoye Selo on Twitter in English and Russian")   |
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12.01.2012 |
Genius sculptor and restorer dies at 83 |
 Lilia M. Shvetskaya, a Master Sculptor whose talent greatly contributed to the restoration of the Tsarskoye Selo palaces and parks, died on January 6th, 2012. |
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29.12.2011 |
Agate Rooms: 1st stage of restoration completed |
 The first stage of restoration works in Catherine II's favourite Agate Rooms is completed at the Agate Cabinet and the Library. The process and more are covered by the exhibition Agate Rooms: On the Way to Revival on the Cold Bath's first floor. |
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20.12.2011 |
Tsarina’s porcelain cat returns to palace |
 The porcelain figure of a cat licking its paw, presented to Tsarina Alexandra, Nicholas II’s spouse, in 1903 and then gone after 1917, was recently won at an auction by our museum. |
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06.12.2011 |
Antique-reproduction birdfeeder adorns Catherine Park |
 An antique-reproduction birdfeeder now invites wild birds to the Catherine Park. Thirty four other new ones of simple design are set in both parks of Tsarskoye Selo and waiting to be filled! |
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16.11.2011 |
Puppet Theater of Tsarevich Alexei |
 Tsarskoye Selo regains the late nineteenth-early twentieth century French puppet theater set of Tsarevich Alexei, which belonged to the Playroom of Tsar Nicholas II’s heir in the Alexander Palace until 1931. |
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11.11.2011 |
Our auction win: Painting from Alexander Palace! |
 A lucky bidder at a recent Dorotheum auction in Vienna, Tsarskoye Selo has acquired for EUR 260,000 a painting commissioned by Emperor Nicholas I for the Alexander Palace in 1846. |
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08.11.2011 |
Book taken in 1943 returns to Alexander Palace |
 A 1893 Russian edition of Don Quixote, possibly from Nicholas II’s library, returns to the Alexander Palace thanks to a Spaniard whose father salvaged the book in 1943 and dreamed of bringing it back since then. |
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03.11.2011 |
Tsarskoye Selo at St. Petersburg International Cultural Forum 2011 |
 Tsarskoye Selo presented the Agate Rooms Restoration project at the St. Petersburg International Cultural Forum 2011, displaying what our visitors will see in the renovated 18th-century pavilion since January 2012. |
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01.11.2011 |
New arrivals in our collection |
 Eighteen objects of cultural value from the late 18th to early 20th centuries, confiscated recently by the Russian customs and the Federal Security Service, were passed to the Tsarskoye Selo collection by Rossokhrankultura on October 26, 2011. |
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24.10.2011 |
Famous canvases sculpted in Catherine Park |
 For the next twelve months, the Catherine Park houses four great works from the Paragone series by the sculptor Alexander Taratynov, which comprise his unique project of Paintings In 3D Version. |
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21.10.2011 |
New video on Agate Rooms restoration |
 Check a recent video on the restoration of the Agate Rooms, the original eighteenth-century interiors at the Cold Bath pavilion scheduled to re-open for visiting in about two years. |
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20.10.2011 |
"Heir’s Oak" to be reborn |
 Acorns from Alexander Park’s oldest English oaks will be seeded to bring forth a substitute for the now non-extant tree that the child Heir Tsesarevich Alexei admired in the Private Garden near the Alexander Palace. |
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19.10.2011 |
Season closing information (updated) |
 Admission to the Catherine Park is free since October 20th. The Lower Bathhouse is open through October 23rd and the Tsarskoye Selo Tercentenary Exhibition at the Cameron Gallery through October 30th. |
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18.10.2011 |
Museum collection expanded |
 A year after Tsarskoye Selo celebrated its 300th birthday, our collection has included a 1910 greeting folder with a letter of congratulation from citizens of the nearby Pavlovsk town to their neighbours on the occasion of Tsarskoye Selo’s 200th anniversary. |
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12.10.2011 |
Restoration of WWI Museum at Martial Chamber: Call for artifacts |
 Tsarskoye Selo is restoring the World War I Museum which existed at the Martial Chamber in 1917-1919. We put out a call for artifacts to be donated to the museum for its re-opening in 2014 (WWI Centenary). |
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13.09.2011 |
Queen of Denmark's visit |
 Her Majesty Margrethe II, Queen of Denmark visited Tsarskoye Selo admiring the splendours of the Catherine Palace and the homy feeling of the Alexander Palace where her royal great-great-grandmother gave birth to Russia’s last tsar Nicholas II in 1868. |
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02.09.2011 |
Season is closing, yet some of out exhibits are still on! |
 Check what is available for visiting at Tsarskoye Selo besides our famous palaces. |
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22.08.2011 |
New exhibition open in Zubov Wing since Sep 3 |
 September 3 to October 16, 2011 the Zubov Wing of the Catherine Palace houses an exhibition of Russian Imperial Works of Art from Sergei and Tatiana Podstanitsky Collection presenting 132 paintings, graphics and applied arts of the 18th-19th centuries. |
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19.08.2011 |
Audio guides introduced at our palaces |
 Audio guides are now available at the Catherine Palace (English, French, German, Russian) and at the Alexander Palace (English, Russian), providing an engrossing high-quality visiting experience. |
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