Winter palace

[Francoise Rosset]

On Fri, 3 Mar 2006 00:33:38 -0500
  Inna Caron <caron.4 at OSU.EDU> wrote:
> As far as I remember, the Winter Palace had always been light green.

Don't know about the yellow, other people have addressed that. But 
Alina is right, it was brick red for a while, and is referred to as 
such both in Belyi's Peterburg, where the walls are "bleeding," and in 
some early twentieth century memoirs (Likhachev I believe).

As for light green, I myself took pictures of it being light turquoise 
in the late 80s (which I suppose could be classified as green, but it 
was a darn sight prettier than the present icky color), and then the 
present grayish-green.
-FR

Francoise Rosset
Russian and Russian Studies
Interim Chair, Women's Studies
Wheaton College
Norton, Massachusetts 02766
Office: (508) 285-3696
FAX:   (508) 286-3640

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