Winter Palace in St Petersburg

The Gold Drawing Room of the Winter Palace, St Petersburg (UNESCO) was one of the rooms of the palace reconstructed following the fire of 1837 by the architect Alexander Briullov.
Maria Alexandrovna used this room as her state drawing room.

Following her marriage in 1841, it became the most formal of the rooms compromising the suite of Tsaritsa Maria Alexandrovna. It was refurbished for her by Andrei Stakenschneider, who employed heavy gilt mouldings for the ceiling and walls in a Byzantine style. The room contains a fireplace of marble and jasper with a mosaic by Etienne Moderni.

Postcard from Linda.