The Ministry of Culture and Mass Communication, the State reserve museum Tsarskoye Selo and the State Pushkin Museum present the exhibition “Tsarskoye Selo “The Favorite of two Centuries…”
       The park and palace complex of Tsarskoye Selo (St.-Petersburg) is a monument of world architecture and landscape gardening art of the XVIII - early XX centuries.
       The unique ensemble owes its appearance to the victories of Peter the Great in the North War and building of the new capital of Russia. In 1725 Tsarskoye Selo becomes the emperor’s residence that turns to a museum in 1918.
       During World War II the complex was totally destroyed and lots of exhibitions taken to Germany. Soon after the victory in 1945 restoration works started to save the unique architectural monument and Russia’s richest museum collection.
       The park ensemble is especially dear to admirers of Russian poetry. It is here where the first poems of Alexander Pusjkin drew their first breath, where he spent his youth and later kept returning in his thoughts to.
       The exhibition is remarkable for the fact that so many exponents have left Tsarskoye Selo for the first time since the war.
       The visitors will learn about the history of the emperor’s residence, about its crowned dwellers and see unique historic collections that miraculously survived the war.
       Around 300 works of art are displayed including paintings, graphics, sculpture and decorative art, alongside with personal belongings and dresses of the palace’s owners, armour and photo documents.
       The exhibition in the State Pushkin Museum is on till December 15