To take a walk along Tsarskoe Selo — the state reserve museum containing of The Catherine Palace, The Alexander Palace, The Memorial Lyceum Museum, The Pushkin Museum and The Pushkin Local History Museum. The Catherine Palace is a true masterpiece of baroque style. It consists of an endless enfilade of gilt rooms with florid baroque decorations. One of these rooms is The Amber Room presented in 1709 by the Prussian king Friedrich. The recovery of The Amber Room after it had been lost somewhere in Koenigsberg has become the symbol of lost and stolen during The Second World War cultural objects. During the reign of Catherine The Great The Agate Rooms with a swimming pool at the ground floor, The Cameron gallery have been attached. The Agate Rooms are fully decorated with agate and have nice outlooks at The Higher Catherine garden. The stair head of The Cameron gallery has a great panoramic outlook at the whole garden. Also under Catherine’s decree here was built a palace for her beloved grandson — later the Emperor Alaxander I, — The Alexander Palace (Giacomo Quarenghi, 1792). This palace has become the residence of the last Russian Emperor — Nicholas II. Nowadays different paintings, graphic and applied and decorative artworks, paraphernalias of the members of the Emperor’s family are presented in this palace.
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