🖼 Chinese Palace

Ораниенбаум, Ломоносов

Rinaldi's small palace with chinoiserie interiors — the original decor survived the war undamaged.

The palace was built to a design by Antonio Rinaldi in 1757–1768 for Catherine II — the centre of her Own Dacha.
The most famous room is the Glass Bead Cabinet: its twelve panels of the 1760s were embroidered by nine Russian needlewomen.
The glass beads for the panels were made at Lomonosov's factory in Ust-Rudits near Oranienbaum.
The palace became a museum in 1922 — the only building in Oranienbaum to do so before the war.
In 1852–1853 Stackenschneider and Bonstedt added a second storey over the south facade.

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