Winter palace

[Slivkin, Yevgeny]

Dear SEELANGERS!

I opened several guide books in the internet and I found some references to
the yellow color of the Winter Palace. For example:
Впоследствии здание (from 1837 - Y.S.) ещё восемь раз меняло цвет своих
стен. Дворец красили в красный, розовый, жёлтый цвета. 
Перед первой мировой войной дворец перекрасили в красно-кирпичный цвет.
Именно на таком фоне и происходили события на Дворцовой площади в 1917 году.

Actually, the initial color of the Palace was yellow and white!
I also believe I remember references to the yellow color of the Palace in
the memoirs of Count Konkrin. But I need to check it.


Yevgeny Slivkin
 

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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. 

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> 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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