Museums of Russia: The exhibition "The Alexander Palace. 1917" was opened at the Museum-Reserve "Tsaritsyno" in Moscow

December 21, 2016 at the Museum-Reserve "Tsaritsyno" (Moscow) was opened the exhibition "The Alexander Palace in Tsarskoye Selo and the Romanovs" dedicated to the 220th anniversary of Alexander Palace and about the history of the last imperial residence and its crowned owners - starting with great Prince Alexander Pavlovich, the future Alexander I, and ending with the emperor Nicholas II.

Over thousands of unique items from the historical collections of the Alexander Palace in Tsarskoye Selo for the first time since 1941 were collected at the same site. The exhibition - the grandiose paintings of European and Russian masters, porcelain and bronzes of XVIII - early XX centuries, the palace furniture, uniforms emperors, original letters, diaries, drawings, watercolors, copybooks, notes and photos.

To tell about the Alexander Palace in the Museum-Reserve "Tsaritsyno" started back in June 2016, when was opened the first part of the exhibition. The new chapter - "The Alexander Palace. 1917" - tells about the life of the past inhabitants of the palace of Emperor Nicholas II and his family.

Hundreds of original exhibits tell about the important events of the life of the royal family until the summer of 1917.

In one of the halls - Christmas tree, around which are assembled toys of Nicholas II’s children: puppet theater heir, sled, dolls of daughters. Here - the dress uniform of the Grand Duchesses and the Tsarevich Alexei, their books and notebooks, drawings and Christmas cards addressed to parents.

The other two rooms - the original documents relating to the renunciation of Nicholas II, the amateur photos showing the life of the royal family after the arrest, the spring and summer of 1917, and a camera, which the heir to the tutor Pierre Gilliard took these shots; semicircular chairs from the living room of the Alexander Palace, where the Emperor and his family spent the last night before the reference; unique autochromes of a deserted house, taken by a military photographer Andrey Zeest after the departure at the request of George Lukomsky, making an inventory of the royal palace property.

The exhibition will run until January 2018, and every six months the exhibition will be updated and supplemented.