Museums abroad: The Czar Peter House in Holland to be restored

The Czar Peter House in the Netherlands will be restored. A wooden building in Zaandam of 1632 requires the reconstruction of the pavilion, replacement of the façade and the stonework, restoration of expositions, replacement of the climate system.   The end of the reconstruction and the renewal of the work of the museum are planned on March 2013.

Peter lived in Zaandam for one week in August 1697, when he was in Holland with the Great Embassy. In the middle of the XVIII century the House acquired the status of the historical object, the building belonged to the Royal family of the Netherlands. In the middle of the XX century by order of Anna Pavlovna, the daughter of Paul I and the wife of King Willem II, the stone case was built around the house.  The building was visited by Alexander II with Zhukovsky, the latter composed an impromptu verse of the House.

In 1886 King Willem III of the Netherlands gave the House to Alexander III; he fortified the walls of the house with wooden beams. Later Nicholas II ordered to build a new brick box with a roof for the building.

After the revolution of 1917 a museum house was in charge of the former royal secretary of the mission in The Hague. In 1948, the heirs of the Romanov refused from rights to the building, and it was returned to the Netherlands.