Armorial Hall of the Winter Palace
The Armorial Hall of the
Military Gallery and the palace courtyard
.
The current hall was designed by
Nicholas Hall, it was one of the palace's main areas for entertaining. The edges of the hall are decorated with vast stucco panoplies. In the center of the hall sits a lapidary vase made of aventurine
from 1842.
Under the direction of Anatoly Lunacharsky, who became the Commissar of Enlightenment after the October Revolution, the Armorial Hall was used as a concert hall, with a capacity of up to 2,000.
Today, as part of the
State Hermitage Museum
, this room retains its original decoration.
Photographs of the Hall, taken in 2008
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The Armorial Hall -
Closeup of the gold pillars -
Closeup of the door -
Location of the Hall within the Palace
References
- (in English) Hermitage Museum Website Published by the Russian state Hermitage Museum. Retrieved 13 October 2008. Archive link
- Norman, Geraldine (1998). The Hermitage: The Biography of a Great Museum. New York: Fromm International Publishing. ISBN 0-88064-190-8.
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