Александровский дворец / Alexander Palace 1917

Описание: Царскосельские интерьеры в автохромах 
Александровский дворец
Андрей Андреевич Заест
1917

Tsarskoye Selo interiors in autochromes
Alexander Palace
Andrey Andreevich Zeest
1917


Музыка:
В.Овчинники. Сюита № 6

Music:
V. Ovchinnikov. Suite No. 6

On the night of 1 (14) August 1917, the family of the last Emperor left the Alexander Palace, which four hours later received G. K. Lukomsky as Chairman of the Commission for the reception and accounting of the property of the Tsarskoye Selo Palace administration.

At the same time, realizing the memorial value of the items entrusted to him, he appealed to the Commissioner of the Provisional government over the former Ministry of the Court and the Destinies FA Golovin: "For a better cataloging of equipment of artistic value, it would be desirable to photograph all the most valuable items in the palaces, as well as the consolidation for posterity and science of order and type of furniture arrangement in 1917, that is by the time of the end of the Russian monarchy."

Lukomsky received permission to shoot in the palaces of Tsarskoye Selo. For this purpose the former stable Colonel photographer Andrey Andreevich Zeest was invited.

These colour images of interiors, objects of decorative and applied art and paintings in the Catherine and Alexander palaces were phtographed in autochromes. After that 83 plates were transferred for the planned three-volume work "Art treasures of Tsarskoye Selo" by the publishing house "Kopeyka". In 1918 these plates disappeared without a trace. Most of the remaining colour images Lukomsky took with him when emigrated. Only after the end of the Great Patriotic War were parts of this collection began to be returned to Russia.