Winter palace

[Josh Wilson]

Mikhailovskii Castle also used to be yellow:
http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/03/hm3_6_5b.html

For those of you who have not yet visited it, the Hermitage's website is 
wonderful.  :)

JW

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Inna Caron" <caron.4 at OSU.EDU>
To: <SEELANGS at listserv.cuny.edu>
Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 8:33 AM
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Winter palace


> As far as I remember, the Winter Palace had always been light green. The
> Petrovskii Palace in Peterhoff/Petrodvorets was yellow. Ekaterininskii
> Palace in Oranienbaum was blue. Mikhailovskii Castle in Petersburg was
> brick red.
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU] On Behalf Of Alina Israeli
> Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 10:18 PM
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> Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Winter palace
>
>> All
>>governmental buildings in Russian Empire, including the Winter Palace
> were
>>painted in yellow.
>
> That's news to me. I know it was brick red at one point, but I never
> heard
> of it being yellow. Yellow was the color of classicism in St.Petersburg
> (Rossi, for ex.). I don't recall a single barocco building painted in
> yellow.
>
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