Pushkin (Tsarskoe Selo). Catherine Palace and Park

Escursion to TSARSKOYE SELO (Pushkin) with visiting Catherine Palace and Park

Catherine's Palace:
Open: 10.00 - 17.00
Closed on TUE and on the last MON of
every month

Actual visit 1,5 hour.

Pushkin, Catherine’s Palace & Park
The Czar’s Village is one of the most famous suburbs of St. Petersburg. Its gardens and parks were laid out by the best landscapers and gardeners. Its palaces and pavilions were built by the most talented architects and decorated by the best Russian and foreign sculptors, painters and craftsmen. Unique collections of art were gathered in the Catherine palace. The majestic building extending over more than 300 meters became the compositional center of the whole palace and park complex. The town was renamed in 1937 after Alexander Pushkin.
Ekatherinsky Palace was finished building and rebuilt in 1740-1750,
in the reign of Empress Elizaveta Petrobna, which differed by special love towards luxury. Due to her generosity and to the talent of many best architects palace appeared, strikening and beauty of facades and richness of interiors. This is the very place where the famous Amber room was situated, stolen by the Germans during the war of 1941-1945.
Smart stairs of the palace are made of white marble, walls and ceiling are stucco moulded with paintings and sculptures.
The carved ornaments in Kavalerskaya dining are covered with real gold...

 A whole painting museum is in the painting hall. A collection of West-European masters was bought in 1745.
In an interior of Green dining the plots of antique art are used.
 The beautiful study of Alexander I was made in 1817. The interior here More strict: the walls are revetted light pink artificial By marble, the lists are made only in a top of a study.
The light-blue drawing room differs by the special luxury of an interior. Not
Casually before her(it) named as a Smart drawing room.