Details of the wall at the Gold Drawing-room of Hermitage museum (Saint Petersburg, Russia). I was completely stunned when I saw it. This interior in the apartments of Empress Maria Alexandrovna, the wife of Alexander II, was created by the architect Alexander Briullov in 1838-41. The ceiling is decorated with gilded mouldings. In the 1840s the room was refurbished by Andrei Stakenschneider. The décor is completed by a marble fireplace with jasper columns that is embellished by a bas-relief…
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