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Winter Palace. People and Walls. History of the Imperial Residence. 1762-1917

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Winter Palace. People and Walls. History of the Imperial Residence. 1762-1917
29.99 €
The Winter Palace was not only the main ceremonial residence of the Russian monarchs, but also the repository of priceless national treasures that Catherine II began to collect. It fulfilled a great many functions: representative, residential, cultural and administrative, to which the book also pays special attention.Over the years of its life, the Winter Palace has seen much: human happiness and grief, death, the rise and fall of statesmen, storming, change of interiors to please the new authorities, survived the siege of Leningrad.... The spirit of this place was woven from the events that took place in it, the people who lived in it, the secrets with which it was laden. In this book, the author has tried to open the doors of the Winter Palace for the reader and show the old walls in which the lives of the people who largely determined the fate of the country took place: from the risalites to the facades, covering all three floors. The narrative is accompanied by paintings, photographs and documents.
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