Elektrostantsiia, kotel'naia, garazh Zimnego dvortsa (Electric station, boiler room, garage of the Winter Palace)
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2017. Sewn pb. It is easy to overlook that the Hermitage Museum, beautifully suited for displaying works of art, comprises the Winter Palace, the main residence of the Romanovs for over a century and a half. Lighting and heating a palace and museum takes engineering on a high level, and that task is the subject of this edition in an imaginative Hermitage series that surveys the material aspects of the Winter Palace/Hermitage, which was until 1917 the residence of the tsar and a public museum. The author outlines how the Hermitage incorporated new technology for lighting and heating — its own electric station and extensive heating and ventilating system — without disturbing the exquisite interiors. The third practical aspect dealt with here the location and staffing of transportation. 149 p., approx. 150 color and b/w illus., Rus. Series: Halls and Buildings of the Hermitage (Zaly i zdaniia Ermitazha). Item #2377
ISBN: 9785935726744
Price: $23.00