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Rooms to get to try to live up to. Watercolors of various rooms in the Winter Palace, Saint Petersburg, Russia. 1850-late 1870s. Painted by Russian artist Eduard Gau at the decree of the tsar.
“Peter the Great Memorial Hall/ the Small Throne Room,” from the album “Interiors of the Winter Palace.” 1863. Russian. Watercolor. Eduard Hau, artist (1807-1888). Collection of the Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg. In the public domain due to age. via http://godsandfoolishgrandeur.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-small-throne-room-in-winter-palace.htmlBedroom in the second reserved apartment of the Winter Palace, bedroom of the future tsar Alexander III from approximately 1852 till 1866 when he married and moved.1874. Russian. Watercolor. Edward Petrovich Gau, artist(1807-1887). In the public domain due to age. via http://winterpalaceresearch.blogspot.com/2016/07/“The Picket Room” from the series “Interiors of the Winter Palace.” 1865. Russian. Watercolor. Eduard Hau, artist (1807-1888). Collection of the Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg. In the public domain in the United States because the artist has been dead over 70 years. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hau._Interiors_of_the_Winter_Palace._The_Picket_Room.jpg
On a voyage to see how much mileage I can get from the creative ability and eye for images that my family thought was useless. On line art curator, fiction writer and now blogger. Historian's daughter. Follow me . . .even I have no idea where I'm going next.
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