Alexander Palace at Tsarskoye Selo before the Revolution
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- Дореволюционная Россия на фотографиях
Александровский дворец в Царском селе
Pre-Revolutionary Russia in photographs
Alexander Palace in Tsarskoye Selo
Here I present a historic set of photographs of the interior of Alexander Palace, the favourite residence of the last Tsar, Emperor Nicholas II and his family.
Music: Elegie, Op. 3 No.1 by Sergei Rachmanionov
Dear friend Nigel, I always admire your talent choice of background music for the video. These stunning with its poignancy and delicacy it was impossible to choose anything better than the music of Rachmaninoff. Thank you so much for the great video! Happy days! Sorry for the Google translation.
Thank you dear friend Natasha for your kind words. Google is very good today! These wonderful photographs deserve a heavy weight such as Rachmaninoff. I am really happy you enjoyed this video. Have a lovely day! Nigel
Fascinating. A glimpse into an almost forgotten world, and with such tragic consequences
Thank you Fran. You're most welcome!
4:04; On the right a picture of Marie-Antoinette of France and her childrens. The Tsar family had the same fate.
Imperial family had a much worse fate, in many ways.
3:55 That is one amazing, lavish collection of icons (as someone else pointed out two years ago) - I sense his mother's influence here... - Beautiful video and a real time-capsule of this buried world.
Good morning Louise.
Thank you for your visit and lovely comment.
You are. always, most welcome!
Warm salutations. Nigel
Beautiful presentation, wonderful music.Thank you.
Thank you Nigel !!! - я очень признательна вам за ваш труд и популяризацию фото исскуства Русской фотографии ..
я так-же являюсь поклонником и коллекционером Русской фотографии и могу смело утверждать -то что вы проделали большую работу , еще раз большое спасибо!
Я хочу поблагодарить вас Ирина за ваш прекрасный комментарий. Ваши слова меня очень ободряют. Желаю хорошего празднования Пасхи. С наилучшими пожеланиями. Найджел
@@NigelFowlerSutton Музыка Рахманинова просто Божественно прекрасна! И достойное исполнение, глубоко прочувствованное. Музыкальное сопровождение делает это видео ещё интереснее и содержательнее. Облик дворца прекрасен. Большое спасибо за любовь к русскому искусству и России, за уважение к её истории.
Very beautiful and interesting.Thanks,Nigel!
Thank you so much Elena. Nigel
ПРЕКРАСНО!
Это чудесное видео! Мне очень нравится, спасибо!
Mila Raido Мила, спасибо большое. Я рад, что вам понравилось мое последнее видео. Мне очень нравится этот дворец, и я рад, что восстановление продолжается. Найджел
Thank you for all good pictures...
You are most welcome!
Конечно, всё выполнено с хорошим вкусом. Спасибо Вам за историю.
Сергей
Neverov Sergey bayan Это мое удовольствие Сергей. Спасибо за просмотр! Найджел
Wunderschön! Liebe Freunde, erhalte AL diese Kunstvolle Schätze! Sie Zeugen von einer großen Vergangenheit! 🌹🌹🌹
Gracias.
What is rarely mentioned is that when renovating the palace to create their private apartments, Nicholas and Alexandra had one of its greatest interior features destroyed - a magnificent two-story ballroom spanning the width of the wing and ringed by majestic Corinthian columns supporting a gallery.
The room in question was the Concert Hall designed as the rest of the palace by Giacomo Quarenghi , not a ballroom. This hall occupied the entire width of the left building of the Palace and was destroyed in 1903.
Thank you for putting this lovely Rachmaninoff piece in such an artful context. I happen to play the Elegie and now will visual these photos whenever I sit down at the piano to try to match the pianist on this recording. Is this actually Rach playing? You are doing a great service to the honor of all the great Russian music in your various videos. But, this great composer/pianist, in my humble opinion, is at the top of the heap. Thanks again and keep up the wonderful work!
Tom Zike Tom, thank you so much for your really great comment. I am really pleased that you enjoy these videos I make. You are, of course, correct in your assumption - this wonderful piece by Rachmaninov was played by the great man himself. Nigel
There was an AMERICAN movie filmed at thier Black sea estate for summer use.ILL try too get name of film.AWESOME to see INSIDE the ROMANOV summer palace.Ann g.
The Lividia Palace in the Crimea on the Black Sea.
One day i want to see it in person.
Thanks Nigel, beautiful video, looks like a time capsule, unfortunately it has been lost a lot because of the Bolsheviks but especially the Nazis. Take care. Very nice with your dogs. Ciao
...and thanks Marco for your visit.
Beatiful!!!!
Marvellous .
Такие огромные потолки, двери и комнаты. Подтверждается, что ранее жили великаны.
Is it possible to include modern photos of these places? And who occupies them?
Good video of how the last Romanov emperor and his family lived. Personally I don’t like the decor, its more Victorian than Russian. Like a family house. It reminds me of my grandmother with frames, paintings and icons all over the place.
...Certainly the palace does not have a "regal" look about the firnishings. The Victorian taste must have influenced Alexandra very much.
@@NigelFowlerSutton She was Victoria's granddaughter, and actually lived with her as a child.
A lot of their contemporaries commented that the private apartments was badly decorated. Some of Alexandra's furniture was ordered from an English department store. And that Art Nouveau inspired room is out of place in the classical Alexander Palace.
Lots of bling bling there!
Thy had very Victorian tastes.
Tout le contraire du bling bling! Des trésors en peintures, meubles...etc...
Visiblement vous ne connaissez rien à l art et surtout à l histoire ! 😂
Thanks Nigel, images of a world now lost.
The Tsarevitch certainly had one of the largest and fanciest "krasnii ugolok"s I have ever seen. Many of the private rooms have icons, but the large function rooms seem to only house art and portraits.
I suppose, that icons are very personal, religious paintings that belonged to each and every member of the Imperial family. The State Rooms are used for state entertaining etc and therefore no icons would be on display (I guess!)
I scoured these photos for anything by Faberge but no luck. Either they are lurking in the shadows or there just weren't any on display. If not, where are they? Most of Faberge's eggs went to the Tsar. It makes sense that they would be on display in the Tsar's principal residence. Maybe some of those picture frames on the Tsar's desk were by Faberge but it's too hard to tell.
The Tsar gave the eggs to his mother and wife, so they would have been kept in their respective rooms.
What an amazing place that the Romanovs lived in. I wonder how much of this stuff got looted after the family was moved to Siberia. Just really sad to think about!
Surprisingly, apart from the personal possessions of the Emperor and Imperial family, the palace was spared. Not long after the Romanovs were resettled in Tobolsk, Siberia, the palace was turned into a museum. The museum operated until the beginning of the Great Patriotic War in 1941when most of the valuable furnishings were evacuated to the interior of the country. Many of the objects were hidden in the basement. During the Nazi German occupation, the palace was used as headquarters for the German military command. The area in front of the palace was turned into a cemetery for SS soldiers!!
As the Nazis were retreating from the Soviet Union, many of the nearby palaces were looted and destroyed. Fortunately Alexander Palace was spared and was used as a repository for artworks coming back from the interior. At the end of the War, plans were put in lace to return Alexander Palace to being a museum. This came to nothing and later the building was handed over to the Soviet Navy. Many of the palace's former collections still existed and the decision was made to place them in other nearby museums...... So there you have it....! Warm greetings! Nigel
@@NigelFowlerSutton After the renovations of the palace are completed, will the collections and possessions be moved back to the Alexander Palace?
@@emallace447 They did move a lot of these items in yes.
@@emallace447 They have other museums of the imperial family as well, and occasional exhibitions, so these items are scattered throughout the country. I hope someone is keeping track!
Quedó algo?.
What is the year of the palace when the pictures were taken?
This revolution shook up the world!
and still reverberates to this day
Nigel, I am wondering if there are any photo's or texts about the apartments at Aleander Palace that were used by other members of the family or other guests? Is there any record of who might have stayed there. I have read that the Grand Duke Demitry had an apartment there. Tom
Hi Tom, I will direct you to this website, which seems to be the moist informative on the Alexander Palace -
www.alexanderpalace.org/palace/
Nigel
PLEASE give us lot MORE TIME really study each photo !!! You are presenting us with such beauty let us ENjOY IT !!!!!!!
hello Nigel, have you done the yousopov palace before the revolution,
Hi. To answer your question - I have not seen good clarity photographs of the Yusopov Palace in St. Petersburg taken before the Revolution to make a video presentation. I have seen pictures of the Yusopov Palace in Moscow before 1917. I shall do some research and see what I can come up with. Cheers! Nigel
Nigel Fowler Sutton brilliant thanks nigel
Por que esse vídeo não está mais disponível???
Por causa da música, o vídeo foi tornado
"Não disponível em alguns dispositivos"
Nigel Fowler Sutton ah, tá ok! Que pena que não está disponível no meu dispositivo, amoo esse vídeo!!!!!
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X favor en español
En ESPAÑOL!!!! POR FAVOR!!!!
Waiting the owners ... i can say that ...
So many portrait.. things..
What about, Poland?
......and what about Poland?
They had a hunting lodge in Poland.
Wat a pity
Too much of everthing except taste, too me, it's the stuff of nightmares.
It was the Victorian Era. Too much of everything crowding the rooms.
Overly stuffed with memorabilia, garish and goshe. More like a warehouse than a home.
Its typical of its time... Victorian Stately homes and palaces were also cluttered!
“Stuffed with memorabilia” well it is a house 😅