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    The document provides details about several rooms and features of the Peterhof Palace in Russia, including the Grand Staircase, Dance Hall, Blue Waiting Room, Throne Room, and Large Blue Living Room. It describes the ornate decorations like gilding, marble, painted ceilings, and sculptures found throughout the palace complexes originally built in the early 1700s and later rebuilt in a more luxurious Baroque style under Empress Elizabeth.

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    The document provides details about several rooms and features of the Peterhof Palace in Russia, including the Grand Staircase, Dance Hall, Blue Waiting Room, Throne Room, and Large Blue Living Room. It describes the ornate decorations like gilding, marble, painted ceilings, and sculptures found throughout the palace complexes originally built in the early 1700s and later rebuilt in a more luxurious Baroque style under Empress Elizabeth.

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    The Peterhof Palace.

    Initially a rather modest royal palace, built in the style of Petrine baroque in 1714-
    1725 by the design of J-B. Leblon and then N. Miketti, was rebuilt by Elizabeth on
    the model of Versailles (Arch F.-B. Rastrelli), in the so-called style of mature
    Baroque. There are about 30 halls, including richly decorated ceremonial halls
    plastered under marble, with painted ceilings, encrusted parquet and gilded walls.

    The Grand staircase

    The front entrance is located in the west wing of the palace. The square hall with a
    double-coloured staircase is one of the most spectacular interiors of the palace,
    distinguished by a formal and luxurious decoration. In it, Rastrelli achieved
    maximum synthesis of art, using almost all possible means of decoration: the oil
    painting of the plafon, temporal painting of walls, molding, wood carving, wrought
    metal. In the interior of the staircase various sculptural forms are represented: bas-
    reliefs, cartouches, statues, rockails, vases.

    The most notable sculptures at the top are allegorical images of the seasons that
    decorate the top of the staircase. Spring, Summer (on the banister), Autumn and
    Winter (placed in niches opposite the first) are represented in the image of young
    girls. Until now, only Winter "lived" and the rest are reproductions.
    The Peterhof Palace.

    Initially a rather modest royal palace, built in the style of Petrine baroque in 1714-
    1725 by the design of J-B. Leblon and then N. Miketti, was rebuilt by Elizabeth on
    the model of Versailles (Arch F.-B. Rastrelli), in the so-called style of mature
    Baroque. There are about 30 halls, including richly decorated ceremonial halls
    plastered under marble, with painted ceilings, encrusted parquet and gilded walls.

    The Dance Hall

    The Dance (Merchant’s) hall with an area of about 270 sq.m. occupies the entire
    west wing of the palace. The decoration is the most magnificent interior of the
    palace, designed in a special way. This hall is distinguished by abundance of gold.
    There is a legend that Catherine the Second ordered not to spare precious metal
    when decorating the hall, as "merchants love gold".

    The Dance Hall features fake mirrored illusion windows that occupy the main
    space of the western and northern walls. On the walls opposite them, the windows
    are real, big, two-tiered.
    The Peterhof Palace.

    Initially a rather modest royal palace, built in the style of Petrine baroque in 1714-
    1725 by the design of J-B. Leblon and then N. Miketti, was rebuilt by Elizabeth on
    the model of Versailles (Arch F.-B. Rastrelli), in the so-called style of mature
    Baroque. There are about 30 halls, including richly decorated ceremonial halls
    plastered under marble, with painted ceilings, encrusted parquet and gilded walls.

    The Blue waiting room

    This small room is connected to the Dance and Chesmen Halls and has an entrance
    through glass doors to the gallery connecting the main part of the palace to the
    Stamp Corps. Its name is derived from the decoration of the walls, which are
    tightened with a blue silk stool. The auxiliary room served as a sort of office room;
    it housed permanent secretaries as well as furriers who recorded the palace record
    in special journals.

    The Throne room

    The throne hall is the largest (330 sq. m) and the most solemn hall of the Palace.
    The main part of decoration of the hall is painting, it is given the most important
    places in the interior. The central place of the eastern wall is the equestrian portrait
    of Catherine II, the largest painting of the hall. Contemporaries noted that this is
    the most similar portrait of the Empress.

    The entire decoration of the room has a clear political motive. The throne hall was
    created and decorated with the purpose of vividly demonstrating the right of
    Catherine II to reign, her spiritual continuity as a continuer of the affairs of Peter I.
    The Peterhof Palace.

    Initially a rather modest royal palace, built in the style of Petrine baroque in 1714-
    1725 by the design of J-B. Leblon and then N. Miketti, was rebuilt by Elizabeth on
    the model of Versailles (Arch F.-B. Rastrelli), in the so-called style of mature
    Baroque. There are about 30 halls, including richly decorated ceremonial halls
    plastered under marble, with painted ceilings, encrusted parquet and gilded walls.

    The large blue living room

    Its name is derived from the colour scheme of the interior. The walls are covered
    with a blue silk rod. Blue portions of the same material decorate the windows.

    The Blue Living Room contains a banquet set made at the Imperial Porcelain
    Factory in the 19th century. On the items of the set can be seen both the stamp of
    the time of Nikolay I. The entire set contained about 5,570 items. The production
    was started in June 1848 and finished in September 1853. At the beginning of the
    war most of the service was evacuated. The rest part was stolen. During the
    liberation of one of the cities of East Prussia, Soviet soldiers discovered boxes of
    tea devices on which were the inventory numbers of the Petersburg Palace. The
    salvaged items were carefully sent to the Motherland and are now back on the
    museum exhibit.

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