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dc.coverage.spatialSite: Saint Petersburg, Rossiya, Russiaen_US
dc.coverage.temporal1754-1762 (creation); 1837 (alteration)en_US
dc.creatorRastrelli, Bartolomeo Francescoen_US
dc.creatorFel'ten, Yuryen_US
dc.date1754-1762en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-01-29T16:20:48Z
dc.date.available2013-01-29T16:20:48Z
dc.date.issued1754-1762en_US
dc.identifier188077en_US
dc.identifier.otherarchrefid: 1683en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/96613
dc.descriptionView looking north from the court park, showing the north entry to the palace; The official seat of the government of Russia from 1712 to 1917, it is sited on the left bank of the River Neva, east of the Admiralty, and is now part of the Hermitage Museum. There have been four successive palaces on the site, the first two of wood and destroyed by fire. Bartolomeo Carlo Rastrelli and Bartolomeo Francesco Rastrelli built the new, stone, Third Winter Palace (1732-1736) for Empress Anne (reigned 1730-1740). Anne’s palace was demolished and its foundations used as the base for the west wing of the new (fourth) palace. In 1754 Bartolomeo Francesco Rastrelli began building the Fourth Winter Palace for Empress Elizabeth (reigned 1741-1761), also in stone. Rastrelli, who was assisted by Yury Fel’ten, finished the present, Fourth Winter Palace in 1762. Four massive three-storey ranges linked by broad galleries surround a courtyard. Each façade is individual, but the principal ones are on the north and south. In the northern part, facing the Neva, are the staterooms and the ceremonial staircase, originally called the Posol’skaya or Ambassadorial Staircase. The south side faces the square and the city; a three-arched gateway leads into the courtyard. The interior was rebuilt after a fire in 1837 with some efforts at restoration and the rest as new decoration. Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/ (accessed 6/16/2009)en_US
dc.format.mediumstone; stuccoen_US
dc.rights© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.en_US
dc.subjectarchitectural exteriorsen_US
dc.subjectrulers and leadersen_US
dc.subjectArt museumsen_US
dc.subjectCatherine II, Empress of Russia, 1729-1796en_US
dc.subjectMuseologyen_US
dc.subjecttsarsen_US
dc.subjectrulersen_US
dc.subjectEighteenth centuryen_US
dc.subjectBaroqueen_US
dc.titleWinter Palaceen_US
dc.title.alternativeZimni dvoretsen_US
dc.typeimageen_US
dc.rights.accessLicensed for educational and research use by the MIT community onlyen_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode1A2-R-SP-H-3-B5en_US
vra.culturalContextRussianen_US
vra.techniqueconstruction (assembling) carving (processes)en_US
vra.worktypepalaceen_US
vra.worktypeart museumen_US
dc.contributor.displayBartolomeo Francesco Rastrelli (Italian architect, 1700-1771); Yury Fel'ten (Russian architect, ca. 1730-1801)en_US


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