Tsarskoye Selo Museum creates scale model of the Alexander Palace

Photo © Tsarskoye Selo State Museum

The Tsarskoye Selo State Museum has created a large 3-dimensional scale model of the Alexander Palace. Visitors can see the model, which is on display in the palace’s vestibule.

The 1:140 model of Giacomo Quarenghi’s 18th-century architectural masterpiece was painstakingly created by specialists of the Studio 22 Model Workshop in St. Petersburg. Each exterior detail has been recreated in miniature.

The model is reflects the favourite residence of Emperor Nicholas II and his family, with it’s elegant Neo-Classical Style yellow edifice and green roof. The majestic central colonnade, the protruding wings, the elegant sculpting of the columns. The model is flanked by copies of two sculptures flanking the palace colonnade, A Youth Playing Svaika by Alexander Loganovsky and A Youth Playing Knucklebones by Nikolay Pimenov. Everything is copied in detail and carefully conveyed in miniature.

Photo © Tsarskoye Selo State Museum

Photo © Tsarskoye Selo State Museum

The above photo depicts the Eastern wing of the Alexander Palace, where the private apartments of the Imperial Family are located. The rooms of Emperor Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna are located on the main or first floor, while the rooms of their five children were located on the second floor.

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