Sender: Agapka
Moscow - Tsaritsyno - The gallery with arch
Renovated Arch-Gallery between the Bread House and the Great Palace at the Tsaritsyno state historical-architectural, artistic and landscaping museum-reserve.
Tsarytsino, meaning "Empress's village" in Russian, is an Imperial summer retreat that never was. Its history goes back to the 16th Century, when Irina, the wife of Tsar Fyodor, had an estate here, which passed eventually from Peter the Great to the Moldavian Prince Dmitri Cantemir, whose writer son sold it back to Catherine the Great in 1775. One of the most imposing structures is the Great Palace, replete with pilastered corner towers and rows of lofty pointed arches. Inside, it houses a museum, displaying some of Tsaritsyno's vast collection of antique tapestries, Russian and Central Asian folk art, contemporary glassware, ceramics and naive paintings.
No comments:
Post a Comment