Monday 30th September
So, it's an 8.45am start and we are off to the town of Puskin, 25km to the south, for a morning at
Catherine Palace, the summer residence of the Czars.
Originally the site of Catherine the First's Palace of Pleasure, built around 1717, and extended by Empress Anna in 1733.It was then demolished by her daughter Empress Elizabeth for being to small and outdated, to a much grander rococo style edifice with 325 metres long frontage,it opened in 1756.
The retreating Germany Army in the second world war after the Seige of Leningrad deliberately burnt it to a shell, but so good were the records etc, that the Palace was reconstructed as close to the original for the Tercentenary of St. Petersburg in 2003
Works are still ongoing within the building!
No longer is the past hidden in Russia, I could go on and on and.... these places must be seen, writing about their sheer beauty is beyond my capabilities.
So I'll show you some of it with just a few of my photographs.
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| Guess who! |
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| The approach |
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| The ball room |
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| One of many Delft chimney" |
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| They did like their parquet flooring |
After lunch we have the St Petersburg city tour and Peter & Paul's Fortress
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