Hm... Never heard anything like that, although there exists a great many of the 'Catherine Tales', so to say. :) What palace could it be? The Chinese Palace in Oranienbaum?
Well, i have just found some absolutely beautiful pictures of Russian Palaces! So, i thought I would share them with you guys (i mean c'mon why not!) So here we go: 1. Interior view of the Pavlovsky Castle (Masterfile) 2. Front of the Castle of Pushkin (Masterfile) 3. Throne Room of the Peterhof Palace (Masterfile) 4. Another view of throne room in Peterhof Palace (Masterfile) 5. Room inside the Pavlovsky Castle (Masterfile)
Ok so these next ones are from the State Hermitage Museum but isn't the museum in the Cathrine Palace (or whatever its called). So, anyways, I thought I'd put these here too:
6. State Hermitage Museum (Digital Vision by Getty Images) 7. Hermitage Museum main stairway (Masterfile) 8. Another view of the main stairway at the Hermitage Museum (Masterfile) 9. this last image is Untitled but I think it might be in the Museum as well (thats a big might)! (Masterfile)
Yes, the Pushkin one is the Catherine Palace. Pushkin usually refers to Tsarskoe Selo, which includes the 200 room blue Catherine Palace, the 100 room yellow Alexander Palace, and other buildings.
Yes, the Pushkin one is the Catherine Palace. Pushkin usually refers to Tsarskoe Selo, which includes the 200 room blue Catherine Palace, the 100 room yellow Alexander Palace, and other buildings.
Ok, then which one is the green one? Sorry, I think I'm getting kinda lost here!
Tsarskoe Selo is not a palace it is a village.
The name "Tsarskoe Selo" means "Village of the Tsar". There you can find the Catherine Palace and the Alexander Palace, I don't know if there are more.
The name of the village was changed into Pushkin, probably because the Soviets didn't like it.
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No sorry Warren it ain't helping me! So, if the blue palace is the Catherine Palace and the yellow palace is the Alexander Palace which palace is the Hermitage Museum in? This one! This one is the one I want to know about: (Masterfile)
No sorry Warren it ain't helping me! So, if the blue palace is the Catherine Palace and the yellow palace is the Alexander Palace which palace is the Hermitage Museum in? This one! This one is the one I want to know about: (Masterfile)
The Hermitage (aka the Winter Palace) is in St Petersburg. Tsarskoe Selo, according to the map (top RH corner), is 24 kms to the south.
Here's another pic, courtesy Corbis.
The Winter Palace, St Petersburg (home of the Hermitage Museum)
The Winter Palace has 1057 rooms, I don't know how much Versailles has
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"Looking back on her short life I often wonder why we did not see that she was quite too good for this world, her fit companions were the Angels." ~Margaretta Eager about Princess Elisabeth of Hesse (1895-1903)
Counting the number of rooms in a palace is one measure of its size, but that figure may include broom cupboards. The square metreage of the floor area (or how many football fields could fit inside) is probably a better way of going about it, but I don't know if such comparisons are available.
Counting the number of rooms in a palace is one measure of its size, but that figure may include broom cupboards. The square metreage of the floor area (or how many football fields could fit inside) is probably a better way of going about it, but I don't know if such comparisons are available.
yeah thats true but is there anything that actually does give the sq. feet of any palace?
If by "largest" you mean "most square footage," then the trophy goes to Madrid's Royal Palace, which boasts 2800 rooms in 135,000 square meters (or over 1,450,000 square feet).
So here we go:
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