Alexander Palace at Tsarskoe Selo
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- Опубликовано: 13 окт 2009
- The last residence of Tsar Nicholas II and his family. This is the only wing open to the public. The video explores each open room in the wing. I shot this video on September 2, 2009
Thank you. It's a bit tough shooting without a tripod. None, as you would imagine, are allowed. I would have preferred stabilized video, but hand-held video was the best I could do. Thank you again for your kind comment.
Brings tears to my eyes.
Same.
I have the impresion: Tzar Nicholas II would've prefer a simpler life just by the way this Palace is decorated, and with the passing od the years they went even further of Moscow.
The family loved the time they spent here. May they rest in peace
I was here about the time this was being filmed; renovation work was being done on the State Apartments. The ladies who were on the front desk and in the rooms inside were all very pleasant, though with no English. I had always wanted to visit the Alexander Palace and was blown away. I hope to come back to see it when the works are finished.
The family rooms shown in the video are being restored in as much detail as possible to how they looked in 1917, the restorers share photos of their progress on mostly Instagram and VKontakte (which is like the Russian version of Facebook) and the accuracy and attention to detail in each room is STUNNING. Wooden furniture and fireplaces and paneling and the fabric for walls, curtains and upholstery is being recreated, almost everything, even the frames for the paintings. It gives me a lot of joy.
@@elsakristina2689 on what account on Instagram? I'd love to see it
@@VMeral Stavros_SPB or Stavros_LTD, ArtCorpus, Studio44, GMZ Tsarskoe Selo, the Amber Workshop and Tsarskoe Selskaya Workshop are the main ones.
@@elsakristina2689 Thank You!
For anyone watching in 2020: A lot has changed at the Alexander Palace. The interiors of Nicholas and Alexandra's rooms are being restored in as much detail as possible to how they looked in 1917, and the progress and the accuracy and attention to detail are STUNNING. They have so many references to help the restorers, the wooden furniture and the fabrics for the curtains, wallpapers and upholstery has been reproduced with surviving pieces of the originals as reference, almost everything. The work continues and the palace is expected to reopen this summer (but that depends on the coronavirus I guess)
I hope they do a good job on the landscaping and gardens as well.
@@robert-pj3bc yeah...
Very beautifully done. Thank you!! I felt like I was there. It's almost overwhelming to see the dolls and the uniforms. They are still waiting
What a horrific end and the savages who committed the crime got away...with everything
History at its finest. Really beautiful .
Beautiful palace to be able to preserved it...
This was the Czar's favorite palace other then the palace on the Crimea sea. This palace less filled with furniture and other things belonging to the last Czar and his family. Thanks for the tour. This place was the last place they lived in before they were moved out in the boonies of Russia, where they eventually met their fate.
These rooms have been recreated. Now they are recreating the furniture and rescuing the surviving art objects
Fantastic video! Thanks! The beautiful White Dresses, the toys....Hope to get there one day.
wow.. that grand piano is stunning..
for sale a while back...I want to know if the white upright piano survived.
@@richardtofts7264 It did not survive. The replica of the original white piano will be manufactured if they raise funds because it is very expensive.
Thank you so much! I visited the AP a few years ago and your post totally refreshed my memory of that beautiful visit.
The music is also beautiful, and even hand held, the camera work is impeccable.
Thank you again!
You have to remember that most of the Imperial family possessions left behind by the family were either sold off or stolen by party officials..and ravages of WW2 has left the palace in a sorry state.in need of a lot of repair work.I wish the people doing the work well with their efforts to restore these beautiful buildings to some degree of there original conditions.Keep up the good work.
David Adams Yes most of the jewels were stolen by the british royal family.
The interior of the palace survived the second war but instead of restoring it Stalin ordered to destroy all the rooms of Alexander palace so that it did not remain reminder of the Tsar.
After the abdication, the palace became a museum. Right before WWII, most of the content was relocated for safety. The Germans used the palace as a headquarters building, and did destroy important and artistic collections that had not been evacuated. After the war, the palace was to be converted to a Pushkin museum, but that plan was scrapped and it became a naval academy.
They are working to restore the rooms to how they looked when the Romanovs lived in the palace. They're even recreating the wooden furniture and wooden decorations, and they already look 100% accurate to the originals in every detail, although nothing is yet finished of course. I have seen WIP photos of the wooden furniture on Instagram and I was shocked at how accurate they are.
@@elsakristina2689 Good to know, Elsa.
It's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen in my life, it's like ... that place came from a dream!
The palace is tastefully decorated... .. The reception room is dazzling...!
The music is from Soper Sound. It is royalty free buy-out music.
What is the name of the song?
I want to sit in that chair at scene 1:50 and soak up some of the ambiance of what it was like. Very good camera work and music.
Douglas....Los angeles
DouglasUrantia that arm chair so many photos of the family taken in that arm chair..
@3:55 "Tsar's New Study" a narrow staircase can be seen leading to a mezzanine loft. This was inserted into the room months before the Tsar's abdication to allow the empress to eavesdrop on Nicholas' consultations with government ministers.
During WWI Nicholas spent months at the front. In his absence Alexandra exercised authority at Petrograd, influenced by Rasputin. She continued to exert undue influence when Nicholas returned to Tsarskoe Selo in a state of depressive passivity, to the end.
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In around 2014, we were only able to tour the Catherine Palace but I wanted to see the Alexander Palace just as much if not more b/c it was the real home of Nicholas II and his family. The two palaces are next door to one another. I had to be satisfied with our tour's drive by of the white iron gates. Drat! Delighted to see a few of the rooms have their original woodwork, staircases and so on. So sad the see that the mauve boudoir and bedrooms can only capture a slight feel of those rooms with enlarged photos, but it is better than nothing. Seeing the children's toys, especially Alexei's drum which is seen in many photos of him, and their uniforms nearly got me teary-eyed (the music contributed to this long lost feeling). I have been interested in N and A for decades; their lives were so ironic -- they wanted to raise the standard of living but really had NO clue. Preserving their autocratic rule was their main goal and everything else was predicated on that. This became a complete impossibility. Russia was just too huge and backward, and Nicolas was not a good administrator, much less a military leader of any value. Even today under Putin, who has stolen Russia blind, only one in four homes has its own bathroom, electricity is restricted in many places, and many people live in very small, run down, cramped apartments. Outside Petersburg, the cement apartment buildings are covered with black mildew and most balconies have been enclosed with plywood and other cheap materials to add an extra room to the apartments' square footage. We saw few retirees on the streets in Petersburg, probably b/c everything there is too expensive for them to buy and they make very little in social security if there is such a thing. I only wish Russia had a democracy because I would LOVE to see more of it. They could have a TREMENDOUS tourist industry if only they could have a democratic government and get rid of the ubiquitous corruption at every level of society and administration. They have a terribly long way to go before they can approach a western European standard of living, though their history and arts occupy a very high place in civilization. They would have to institute a democracy or parliamentary system and an independent judiciary for starters, and those in power would never agree to that -- Putin and his cronies make billions while Russians suffer.
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Wow! Thanks for your insight! I agree 100%.
They are not original. All this wood from the New study and Tsar reception room was recreated for the 2000 film.
@@juracisantanajr2215 Oh, that's interesting. I didn't know that.
I only want their return
nicolas was called the bloody when he had his coronation over 10, 000 people died trampled and do you think he went to visit the survivors at the hospital?? no he went dancing instead
@@hinanochick he did come to the hospital though after the he finished doing what his brother forced him to do which was dancing.
@@hinanochick cannot justify the murder of his family
But the peasants were not invited to be killed. They were invited to celebrate. Nicolas and his wife were devastated over the catastrophic situation. The Tsar was not guilty.
The stampede happened on their wedding day, not on the coronation day. Nicolascand his bride were profoundly devastated
Beautiful and sad, thank you for the tour of this place I've been reading so much about, the children's toys-heartbreaking- the palace -austere, not AS opulent as I imagined, much like the mansions in Newport RI (circa same period) again thank you and GREAT job!...nj
But it is because the interior has been destroyed.
Indeed...the spot of sooooo many photos
Thanks for bringing it to my attention. I haven't the foggiest idea who (or what :-))it might be. I am glad you enjoyed the video. I had a terrific time at the AP.
It reminds of when the Romanovs were still alive.
Alix purposely decorated this palace from common items from other countries, she wanted a homey place rather than opulent. I’m sure most of the original possessions were destroyed or stolen. Curious if anyone ever lived here after they died.
Jan’s Wright: After August 19/7 when the Imperial Family was moved to Tobolsk, no one lived at the Alexander Palace. It was later reopened as a museum to show the “lavish “ lifestyle of the Tsar by the Communists but it had the opposite effect. Since it was a plain homey atmosphere it generated sympathy for the Imperial Family. Nothing really changed until the USSR was invaded by the Nazis and the palace interiors gutted.
So sad when you see Alexandra's white chair, by the window. There are pictures of her, the children and her husband just chilling and goofing around in the chair, they show what a normal, loving family they were. RIP Romanov family
That's not the original chair and not the same colour, the chair's upholstery was lilac purple. But it's all being restored and if you look at what the rooms look like now you'll be amazed.
The replica of the original is being reproduced
@@elsakristina2689 Several of these video furniture did not belong to these rooms. Can you say where they are?
@@juracisantanajr2215 Yes
How sad some people are, maybe the chair isn't original, but the sentiment is.
Very informative.
Que nostalgia todos sus objetos y cosas personales 😊
Nicely done.
PS OMG I just saw a ghost! at 4:08 REFLECTION in the glass, (grand duchesses dresses etc) -immediately after close-up of the Tsar's uniform, was Queen Victoria strolling past?!
it did look like her
I saw it!
Thank you.
Wow , , , great video , , , it is hard to believe your post still exists , , , only in Russia.
What ever happened to the sisters' two bedrooms? I can't seem to find any footage or photos of what the rooms look like today.
Undead Nightorc: The children’s nursery/bedrooms were above their parents. There is no easy way to access them for tours so I read that they weren’t going to be restored.
@tomhetistgut3 Do you mean the Alexander Palace? If so, be sure to have enough time to walk along the grounds. We didn't have enough time, but I wish we had. It looks very interesting. You might ask your guide to show you the children's palace. It is just across a small stream/river on the premises of the Alexander Palace. Cheers.
will these rooms be restored as they were in the time of Nicholas and Alexandra now in July 2018? Will you record video showing?
The Palace is being restored to how they looked to the Romanovs, yes. I know that so far the wooden furnitures and details are being recreated in stunning and detailed accuracy to the originals, you can find work-in-progress photos on Instagram.
It looks so modest when compared to todays Poloticians scenario ! Did they all loot the palaces to fund the Communist as well ? End of an dynasty...one can imagine 300years worth of precious materials.
Still so very sad.Doesnt matter about their wealth, its the way they died that was so cruel and unnecessary. Even to this day the sadness is still there. We must never forget them.
@tomhetistgut3 We had a tour guide. It's really the best way to do things in Russia. I don't recall the cost of going in the palace, but I don't believe it is exorbitant.
I'm surprised that the Bolshevics didn't destroy the royal attires and personal belongings.
If I did not know better, it appears at 3:37 that there is a picture of Marie Antoinette and her children. If the portrait was there before the revolution, it did not bode well for Nicholas, Alexandra and their children.
The portrait was there for years before the revolution.
Marie Antoinette and Alexandra where first cousins 5 centuries apart.. Also one of the last books Nicholas read as Tsar was about the French revolution...
@@candicechristian7344 Czar was a fatalist. He must have seen his demise in the historical reading. Too many similarities.
Looking at all of the displays, everything from the uniforms to the toys, I have to wonder; how did all of these things survive? I'm curious as to how all of these things were kept through the years of the Bolshevik revolution, the civil war of the 1920s, the Second World War. I'm surprised they were not all destroyed from the Revolution of 1917.
A little criticism of the curator's choice of photos: At 02:11 there's a closeup of The Kaiser on the desk (with Alexey on his knee and Maria at his feet.) Of all their cousins they kept at the longest arms length it was Wilhelm. (When you see the full picture and everyone looks morose as sin, you'll agree.) :)
Kaiser Wilhelm II was Tsarevich Alexei’s godfather and ‘advised’ Nicholas II the first years of his reign. After all, they were both, at that time, absolute monarchist rulers. Also, Alexandra was Wilhelm’d first cousin (their mothers were sisters) and Alexandra’s sister Irene married a younger brother of the Kaiser.
the Murders are still fresh in
people's minds.
& the Murdered Children's belongings
toys & clothes & special things are
heart breaking.
@tomhetistgut3
Hi, we only walked in the palace. Unfortunately, we didn't have time to do anything else on the grounds. I wish we had. :-(
It is so modest compared to Winter Palace.
Is the furniture original or "filler" furniture? Did you get to the out-lying children's cottage and pet cemetery?
Pet Cemetery , , , wow.
With pleasure. I wish I had time to walk around the palace, but that was not to be.
Hay algo original?
The Russian Imperial Romanov family (Nicholas II of Russia, his wife Alexandra Feodorovna, and their five children: Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei) were shot and bayoneted to death by Bolshevik revolutionaries under Yakov Yurovsky on the orders of the Ural Regional Soviet in Yekaterinburg on the night of 16-17 July 1918. Also murdered that night were members of the imperial entourage who had accompanied them: court physician Eugene Botkin; lady-in-waiting Anna Demidova; footman Alexei Trupp; and head cook Ivan Kharitonov.The bodies were taken to the Koptyaki forest, where they were stripped, buried, and mutilated with grenades to prevent identification.
Tsarskoe Selo, was like a country house for the Czar. He loved it there. So did his wife and kids. He always wanted to be a country squire, not a Czar. To bad after his father's death, he wed and then became Czar. If he really didn't want the job, he should have handed over to his brother. Then pack up and leave. He could have gone to Denmark, or England.
Pump up Jam: It wasn’t that easy and it was his lack of preparation not that he didn’t want to be Tsar. It was only on abdication that he thought if he got to England he could be a country squire. So unlike like the Dukes of Windsor and Sussex, he was dedicated.
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Anyone else notice the date on that headstone for the family? It said "1895-1917." They were murdered in 1918. I can't read Russian, so maybe someone could enlighten me on what is carved on that headstone? Great video, by the way!
I don't speak russian but i think those were the years that Nicholas II was the tsar
@@cristianfrutos2850 You are so right! Didn't think of it that way.
I believe it says something like house of the royal family 1895-1917, so it's referring to the years they lived there.
@@ashleyharper3998 Thank you! I didn't even think of that.
Elizabeth F.: You are the other commentators/posters are wrong. Nicholas II was Tsar from 1894 (when he ascended to the throne on his father’s death) to 1917 (when he abdicated). It was home to Nicholas and Alexandra from 1895 until 1917 when they were moved to Tobolsk.
wow this looks nothing like the palace in the movie "Anastasia"
Lucila Ramos The movie shows the Catherine Palace not this one, but the reality is the family lived in a more private, domestic and quiet place which is the Alexander Palace, far from the courtiers, as requested by Queen Alix herself
The family moved permanently from the Winter Palace to Alexander's palace after 1905 up until 1917. The palace was not as demanding as the others but was the preferred residial of the Tsar and Cazarina. Its interiors have been completely degraded and destroyed, now undergoes a new restoration for 2018.
THWB THWB they rarely visited the tsarskoe selo palace and only lived in the winter palace in winter time.
Russian palaces were reputed for their exquisite beauty
In the American drawing of Anastacia the palace depicted was the Catharine Palace
I don’t understand why did they leave so far away from the capital. I know it is a more homely palace, but politically speaking, he had to had more contact with the people. Why didn’t they live in the Winter Palace and on the weekends to the Alexander Palace. Even Empress Marie lived in Anichov Palace in St. Petersburg. Its like if Queen Elizabeth lived permanently in Sandringham House or Windsor Castle, not London in Buckingham Palace.
Jose Eduardo Tschen: Partly it was for for the security of the family but also as a retreat from the city and unpleasant association of work, stress, family feuds and narrow minds of high society.
I am surprised anything was left of the Roman s passions, yin would have thought the the Bolsheviks would have burned down the houses and destroyed anything else
Don't believe everything you heard. The best way to find out is visit,Russia is a cultural place, not like some Banking states.
a lonely home
The rooms look so plain and dreary. Similar to Princess Diana's apartment at Kensington Palace
The reconstruction of these rooms can be seen in this group on facebook facebook.com/groups/154594091344303
1:08 Your telling me they were one of the richest monarchies in Europe but they could only afford that little bed? 😂😂😂😂
Ellie Predator: You’re telling the world how stupid you are with that comment. The original furnishings have either been destroyed, stolen or lost. It is likely that the bed was there as an example of what might have been in the rooms. I doubt that the entire family slept in one bed. Which if your family did explains your stupidity.
@@johnpickford4222 👁👄👁
Surely there had to be more comfortable chairs than what this video is showing. Straight back chairs would not be my idea of a comfortable sit!
Fico emocionada, não tinha necessidade de matar está família . Deus abençoe vocês lez aonde quer que estejam no céu
I have been abidingly fascinated for years by Russian royalty and their palaces. I have read many books about the royal family and have quite a number of books on Russian palaces, architecture, imperial fashion, jewels, books of photo essays, Faberge and more. That said, I am so sad that Nicholas II was totally unprepared to lead Russia into the future as a government like modern-day Great Britain. He could have instituted universal education for one thing, and a system of health clinics, health education for all, and hospitals. He could have encouraged labor unions to fight for fair wages, fair hours and workplace safety for workers. He could have done much to increase the quality of housing, roads and RRs. Get systems up and going. If he had done these things early in his reign things might have been different. But the last few tsars were already dealing with unrest and were madly trying to keep the lid on. Eventually it just blew. Now all that remains of the wealthy royal life and life of the nobility are churches, palaces and estates that have been preserved. It is such a shame that Russia is still a dictatorship. They could have a GIGANTIC tourist trade if they could have a democracy, clean up the graft rampant everywhere, have a free press, ditch the secret police, allow dissent, etc. Such a big country with so much to offer but so limiting for the people who live there. I loved visiting St. Petersburg several years ago. We got to see the Catherine Palace with its fabled Amber Room, but not the Alexander which I would have adored seeing. I would also like to see the Faberge Museum, opened since we visited SP.
Virginia Soskin: Then return ! But all the things you say Nicholas II should have done aren’t being done in the United States!
@@johnpickford4222 I would not travel to Russia these days because of the tense political situation. And you are right, America still does not do all these things which is why we struggle to become a MORE PERFECT union -- we don't say perfect, because that is impossible for everyone. However, in 1910's Russia poverty, lack of education, land ownership, were all extremely bad for the vast MAJORITY of people. And by the time Nicholas began his reign, the situation was so bad that even had he instituted universal education for all, it would have taken several generations to work its way down to the poorest people....really an impossible country to govern and it still is. Too much land, too many time zones, climates, ethnicities of the people, graft, corruption.....I would not want to live there but it sure is a good place to visit if tourists are secure in their ability to tour around. I would not tour in the countryside; that's asking to be robbed at gunpoint, even for everyday Russians.
This looks like an old school with a bunch of junk thrown against the wall . It is shameful .
looks really crappy with rooms stripped of most of their original furnishing.good to see this video so you are warned not to bother to see the interiors
These rooms have been recreated. Now they are recreating the furniture and rescuing the surviving art objects
tantos íconos en el dormitorio..., de nada sirvieron...
Je comprends maintenant pourquoi la noblesse russe pensait qu'Alexandra avait des goûts bourgeois.
Eric Spencer: O contraire. She had very simple taste and preferred a warm homey environment that high society criticized her for.
Don't forget the toys were played with by the children who all were brutally murdered!
Charlotte Nasise: On the children’s behalf: Thank you for pointing the obvious to everyone.
Jesús is the only one different to the rest the humanity. Nobody is different in this world.
Rafa Zapatista: Take your religious crap and post it where it is appropriate, but this is not the topic.
📚“Maria Romanov After 17 July 1918”
In a sense, the First World War was the battle of cousins. The financiers of the war decided to erase the last traces of the Russian Empire from history. They had already identified the most suitable employer to achieve their goals. Kaiser Wilhelm the second.
They knew the Kaiser's weakness for Tsarina Aleksandra Fyodorovna, who was the wife of the last Russian Tsar Nicholas the second.
It didn't take long for the Kaiser to find the right shooter for the job. He was Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, who was later known as Lenin.
Lenin's brother Aleksandr Ulyanov was executed for the assassination of Tsar Alexander III.
According to the agreements of the Kaiser and Lenin, the Tsar would be killed. The Tsar's family would be sent to the Kaiser. But Lenin did not obey the agreement, thinking that the Kaiser would betray him.
The execution, which took place on July 17, 1918, at 01:00, was concluded as neither the Kaiser nor Lenin had planned.
Maria and her brother Alexei were able to survive with the help of the young Prince, whom Maria had met at a prom in Romania.
This book is about the lives of Maria and Alexei after July 17, 1918.
Hanukkah Cay: You’re full of s**t. When the Provisional Government continued WWI, Wilhelm II allowed Lenin transport through Germany to Russia, hoping, as it happened that a revolution would take Russia out of WWI so he could focus on England and France in the west. There was no deal to turn Nicholas and Alexandra over to Wilhelm II. Wilhelm had always been interested in Alexandra’s sister Elizabeth (Ella). All of the Russian Imperial Family was shot and executed; NO ONE SURVIVED. You’re an idiot to state otherwise and ridiculing the tragic demise of innocent people. May your end on the earth be soon and less painful then theirs was.
I prefer english and french style.
Paris Porras: We’ll, when you become Tsar or buy the Alexander Palace, then you can decorate as you like in whatever style you can afford.
@@johnpickford4222 this is so absurd comment., First The Alexander palance belongs to Russia and it is not for sale. And second I can have as much preferences as I wish so I got free way to think and free Will to express what I want of any ítem.
False information for have profits. All of the real family was desapier by the enemies of the real family.
A shame the Tsar was a weak man
Stolen
Tsarskoe Selo, was like a country house for the Czar. He loved it there. So did his wife and kids. He always wanted to be a country squire, not a Czar. To bad after his father's death, he wed and then became Czar. If he really didn't want the job, he should have handed over to his brother. Then pack up and leave. He could have gone to Denmark, or England.
He felt it was his duty to assume the post. He was raised that way from infancy. His father's death at an early age was unexpected, Nicholas was to young and unprepared.