You start the video (and again at app. 9:30) by using winter photos of the Catherine Palace at Pushkin. There is a story about the attempt to save a very large mirror during the fire: the soldiers refused to stop struggling with it and put it down until the tsar threw something at it and broke it. Nothing says "imperial life" more than showing the palace with banners showing Marx and Engel plus Lenin and Stalin. The descriptions of the trains used to evacuate the art treasures before the Nazi siege are mind boggling. I do feel that this restoration is eclipsed by the restorations needed to rebuild the Catherine, Alexander, Pavlovsk, and Peterhof Palaces after WWII. If Andrew Mellon hadn't suddenly gotten cheap (or could see the future price appreciation), the Hermitage's Da Vincis would be in the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. as the Soviets offered them to him. Very good video.
Your presentations are among the very finest. Places that I will never be able to afford to visit, your presentations have taken me there in a profound way. And I thank you most kindly for that, from, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA
A lot of the Russian imperial palaces and churches were designed by Italian and Swiss Italian architects! The key is in the colorful baroque style which originated in 17th century Rome.
Hang on. Arn't there also landscaped gardens with brilliantly conceived fountains, waterfalls and golden statues? Yeah, I'm sure there is a lot of crap in the attic in dreary galleries. I would be outside. X
I have always dreamed of going to Moscow and than to St, Petersburg to see the Hermitage. Unfortunately there are no flights at the moment from western cities to Moscow. I think I will have to postpone it.
Yes I toured St. Petersburg in 2015. The Russian People are fantastic and the United States committees tremendous sin in its endless smear and economic ruin campaign. God Bless and God Keep Holy Mother Russia. Thank You for taking me back to St. Petersburg.
@@Oggleeeod The United States conducted a COUP throwing out Ukraine's government. East Ukraine wanted no part of it so Ukraine attacked East Ukraine. Russia in defense of it's Crimea Military Bases and in protection of the people under attack by Kiev tried to restore a valid government.
@@petercullen9880 Ukraine negotiated a peace agreement with Russia and the United States UK ordered it destroyed. Think of poor Ukraine invaded by Russia under the direction of the US UK EU.
COMMENT: Have you visited The Winter Palace before - or is it now on your bucket list?
It would be on my bucket list but the current regime does not exactly entice me to go there any time soon.
Been there!
You start the video (and again at app. 9:30) by using winter photos of the Catherine Palace at Pushkin. There is a story about the attempt to save a very large mirror during the fire: the soldiers refused to stop struggling with it and put it down until the tsar threw something at it and broke it. Nothing says "imperial life" more than showing the palace with banners showing Marx and Engel plus Lenin and Stalin. The descriptions of the trains used to evacuate the art treasures before the Nazi siege are mind boggling. I do feel that this restoration is eclipsed by the restorations needed to rebuild the Catherine, Alexander, Pavlovsk, and Peterhof Palaces after WWII. If Andrew Mellon hadn't suddenly gotten cheap (or could see the future price appreciation), the Hermitage's Da Vincis would be in the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. as the Soviets offered them to him. Very good video.
Your presentations are among the very finest.
Places that I will never be able to afford to visit, your presentations have taken me there in a profound way.
And I thank you most kindly for that,
from,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA
Thank you very much!
Been there in 1987, it was astounding how much effort and money was put in these ruins to bring it back to its former glory.
I visited the Hermitage five years ago. Beautiful.
Lucky you. 👏
So this is what Boris Yeltsin was talking about in The Crown 😂
A lot of the Russian imperial palaces and churches were designed by Italian and Swiss Italian architects! The key is in the colorful baroque style which originated in 17th century Rome.
Better if the narrator were a real human voice. Impressive story. John Quincy Adams, the first United States minister to Russia, was at the palace.
Hang on. Arn't there also landscaped gardens with brilliantly conceived fountains, waterfalls and golden statues? Yeah, I'm sure there is a lot of crap in the attic in dreary galleries.
I would be outside. X
You're thinking of Peterhof, which is outside Moscow at Tarskoe Selo.
I have always dreamed of going to Moscow and than to St, Petersburg to see the Hermitage. Unfortunately there are no flights at the moment from western cities to Moscow. I think I will have to postpone it.
You have to get creative and fly through Turkey or perhaps the Gulf States, which certainly adds to the complexity and cost.
it is more beautiful than Buckingham palace
Yes I toured St. Petersburg in 2015. The Russian People are fantastic and the United States committees tremendous sin in its endless smear and economic ruin campaign. God Bless and God Keep Holy Mother Russia. Thank You for taking me back to St. Petersburg.
Right but yk that Russia invaded a sovereign country right?
Think of the poor people of Ukraine for one second, the the Russian aggressor Putin.
@@Oggleeeodare you implying that invading sovereign countries is bad?
@@Oggleeeod The United States conducted a COUP throwing out Ukraine's government. East Ukraine wanted no part of it so Ukraine attacked East Ukraine. Russia in defense of it's Crimea Military Bases and in protection of the people under attack by Kiev tried to restore a valid government.
@@petercullen9880 Ukraine negotiated a peace agreement with Russia and the United States UK ordered it destroyed. Think of poor Ukraine invaded by Russia under the direction of the US UK EU.
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