Winter palace

[Slivkin, Yevgeny]

For those of us who grew up in St. Petersburg in 60's, 70's, and 80's of the
last century the Winter Palace will always be light green. Nevertheless
during a certain period in the 19th century the Palace was yellow. I will
try to find references to this color of the Palace in memoirs in the near
future.

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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