Item #21 Dvorets i park Gatchiny v pis’makh, dokumentakh vospominaniiakh 1712–1801 (The Palace and Park of Gatchina in Letters, Documents and Memoirs 1712–1801). A. N. Farafonova A. N. Spashchanskii.
Dvorets i park Gatchiny v pis’makh, dokumentakh vospominaniiakh 1712–1801 (The Palace and Park of Gatchina in Letters, Documents and Memoirs 1712–1801)

Dvorets i park Gatchiny v pis’makh, dokumentakh vospominaniiakh 1712–1801 (The Palace and Park of Gatchina in Letters, Documents and Memoirs 1712–1801)

St. Petersburg: Sergei Khodov / Gatchina, 2006. sewn cl. The peninsula on the Gulf of Finland that became the site of Gatchina Palace first belonged to Peter the Great’s sister Natalia Alekseevna. This compilation records main events and everyday life in Gatchina’s history from Peter the Great’s designating the area for a hospital to the construction by A. Rinaldi of a palace for Grigorii Orlov, ringleader of the coup against Emperor Peter III that put Catherine the Great on the throne. The last sections cover Gatchina’s history under Catherine’s son Emperor Paul. Prints, paintings, drawings, works of decorative art, and written documents illustrate the history of the archtiecture and Gatchina as a residence. Some are published here or the first time. 288 pp., 6 x 9 ins., 103 b-&-w illus.,Rus. Item #21
ISBN: 9785984560276

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