Three more halls of the front enfilade opened after restoration in the Alexander Palace - this is where the royal family went into exile.
On July 19, the Tsarskoye Selo Museum-Reserve opened three grand halls after restoration - the Semicircular and Portrait Halls, as well as the Marble Drawing Room (former Billiard Room). They will be included in the excursion route around the palace. The author of the interior design is Giacomo Quarenghi, in the decoration artificial marble of different colors and architectural elements in the Classicism style are used. The rooms have a special emotional load - it was from these rooms that the family of Nicholas II went into exile in Tobolsk - they spent the night from July 31 to August 01, 1917 in the Semicircular Hall.
In the exposition of the three halls of the front enfilade the museum presented about 70 authentic items of painting and decorative and applied art. Including two portraits transferred for temporary storage from Pavlovsk - these are images of Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna and English Queen Victoria. The works have taken their historical places in the Marble Drawing Room.