#mariinsky palace

[elegantballetalk]

Today's watch: 🎊 

Vienna New Years concert, 2003

[mothmvn]

hmm. i think it's time to rewatch season 1 of doctor who empathising primarily with the 9th doctor rather than rose for a change

[kirstythejetblackgoldfish]

At Kremlin Palace:

'at the Mariinsky Theatre'

'in Vladivostok'

'in Novosibirsk'

'in Yekaterinburg'

'in Sochi'

'in Sochi in summer'

'in autumn'

Can you try doing Grok of Bashar and Asma in Moscow?

At Red Square:

At St. Basil's Cathedral:

[thugnificent714]

1st Reserve Apartment

Consisting of rooms 290-301 (located in the south western corner of the inner courtyard), these rooms were occupied by Grand Duchess Maria Nicholaevna, daughter of Nicholas I and sister of Alexander II, and her husband Maximilian de Bauharnais, 3rd Duke of Leuchtenburg, grandson of Napoleon and Josehphine. The coupled lived in these rooms for only 5 years after which they moved into Maria's new palace, the Mariinsky Palace, in 1844. On December 17,1837 a fire broken out in the Field Marshal's Hall and burned for 3 days. The palace was rebuilt by 1838 and Maria and Maxililian were the first to occupy these rooms following the renovation.

Room 300

Room 301 was an anteroom through which you gained entry into room 300, Maria's Small Study.

Room 299 Maria's Dressing Room

Room 298 Bedroom

Room 297 Duke's Dressing Room

Room 296 Maria's Study

Room 295 Yellow Drawing Room

Room 294 Large Drawing Room

Room 293 Duke's Salon

Room 292 Duke's Drawing Room

Room 291 Duke's Study

Room 290 Duke's Valet Room

[rnope-c1e]

LMAO

Oh what a shitshow

Skibidi Toilet was shown in the Legislative Assembly and criticized by the Commissioner for Children's Rights in St. Petersburg, Anna Mityanina. The ombudsman also does not like the voice assistant "Alice" from Yandex and the title of the last year’s publication by ЗАКС.ру about her report:

«I want to turn now to those Telegram channels, the media, which, after each of my speeches, allow themselves such snide headlines: "Defender from the Internet in the Mariinsky Palace." I have talked and will talk about information security and hygiene. Both children and parents should be taught that it is dangerous and very harmful to health. Please take this into consideration.»

This is hysterical

[elsalouisa]

"The Empress Marie Feodorvna, Alexander the Third’s consort, was a Danish Princess, and a sister of Queen Alexandra. She embraced the Orthodox Greek Church upon her marriage, and was a keen upholder of its traditions. I remember being terribly disillusioned by my first glimpse of the Empress. Childlike I had expected her to wear a golden crown, and the sight of her minus this Imperial ornament disappointed me bitterly. It was some time -before I could be consoled. The Empress was always very kind and gracious to the pupils of the Imperial Ballet, and when we performed in the Private Theatre at the Winter Palace, or at the Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg, would reward us with boxes of chocolates and sweets.

Her Imperial Majesty had the most beautiful hands I have ever seen. They were so soft, and most delicately perfumed. We children regarded it as a special treat when we were allowed to kiss them, and we would surreptitiously inhale the fragrance of her delicious perfume as we did so. I have never smelt any perfume like it since, and my memories of the Empress Marie Feodorvna will always be associated with the exquisite garden-like fragrance that seemed to be wafted. with every movement she made. When she died in 1928, although she had left Russia nine years previously, there was a general feeling of grief throughout the Fatherland. She was a woman of remarkable energy, and she expended it in helping her husband and later her son, the Tsar Nicholas the Second, who was destined to be the last of the reigning House of Romanoff".

Lydia Kyasht "Romantic recollections"

[ernanileal]

Mariinsky Palace (1744-52) - Kiev - Built for the Russian Empress Elizaveta Petrovna. Official residence of the President of Ukraine...

[ukrainetargets]

Mariinsky Palace

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Ukraine

[adini-nikolaevna]

Which of Nicholas I children was his favorite? Or which one did he like more and was closer to him? Did he miss his daughter, Queen Olga of Württemberg, when she was away? Did they stay in touch? Can you tell me your 2 favorite children?

In general, the family of Nicholas I was very close-knit, and he loved all his children dearly, but I suspect that Alexander II, as his firstborn and heir, was his favorite son (although he worried that “Sasha” was too sensitive). Maria Nikolaevna, who was called Mary by those close to her, was probably his favorite daughter. She resembled him physically, especially in profile, which is why she was often painted with her head slightly turned, but her steely will was equal to that of her father—there is a story about Nicholas and Mary having an epic staredown that made everyone nervous because neither father nor daughter was willing to give in. As the emperor’s eldest daughter, Mary was expected to make a splendid dynastic marriage, but refused to leave Russia, and then she fell for Maximilian, Duke of Leuchtenberg, who was a minor prince and the step-grandson of Napoleon Bonaparte to boot. Not quite the catch that Nicholas must have had in mind, but for Mary, he agreed to the match. He granted Maximilian the style of “imperial highness, ” as well as the couple’s children, who would be Prince/Princess Romanovsky and treated as Russian grand dukes/duchesses. As a wedding gift to Mary, Nicholas gave her her very own palace, which was even named after her (the Mariinsky Palace), and after the marriage took place, he insisted that his daughter was called “the Grand Duchess Maria” rather than “the Duchess of Leuchtenberg,” which probably didn’t sit well with her husband, but no one (save for his eldest daughter) ever contradicted the Iron Tsar!

[blackpilledkremlintsarina5294]

May 30, 2003

Vladimir Putin on the renovation of the Constantine Palace.

“It was the opening night of ‘War and Peace’ at the Mariinsky Theatre. I was waiting for my guests. A young man approached me about the issue of the Constantine Palace. When I returned to Moscow, I put it on the backburner but kept going back to it: No, it is too expensive, we don’t have the money now, and there are more important matters… And then we appealed to our large private companies, which covered 99.90 percent of restoration costs, some $300 million. We only allocated 5 to 10 billion rubles so as to have the right to monitor the project. By the way, I never saw that young man again. If he is listening to us now, I ask him to contact [St Petersburg Governor Valentina] Matviyenko. We have things to discuss.”

[harri-etvane]

For the Wip Game:

1. Eat

Shevchenko - Testament

Hello anon!

1.Eat is another of those vague google docs that I don't think I'll ever end up posting. It was a really vague concept around how food is so very tied to ones memories. I wanted it to be a reflective piece with Ukrainian national dishes as focus points, mostly for Volodymyr, as a way to connect to memories, moments, people & ideas from the past, but hope for the future as well. (I also have a terrible habit of giving characters bowls of soup or borscht whenever my brain is like ffs, give them some comfort and coziness damnit). It never really got off the ground because I think the idea was a bit.. too specific and a bit too similar to things I've already written.

Shevchenko - Testament is very much a work in progress; but here's a wee snippet:

Despite the sunlight pouring into the gardens of Mariinsky Palace, too-bright, especially after today, Maks feels the hairs on the back of his neck rise, a slow tendril of fear snaking around his heart, pressing there. Something feels off, wrong - something he can't quite put his finger on. There's something missing.

[blueguitar]

Mariinsky Palace in Kyiv.

This is the backdrop for "Naatu, Naatu" in RRR.

[parttimereporter]

BIDEN MAKES SURPRISE VISIT TO UKRAINE

AP DISPATCH FROM KYIV:

President Joe Biden paid an unannounced visit to Ukraine on Monday to meet with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a defiant display of Western solidarity with a country still fighting what he called “a brutal and unjust war” days before the one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion.

“One year later, Kyiv stands,” Biden declared after meeting Zelenskyy at Mariinsky Palace. Jamming his finger for emphasis on his podium, against a backdrop of three flags from each country, he continued: “And Ukraine stands. Democracy stands. The Americans stand with you, and the world stands with you.”

Biden spent more than five hours in the Ukrainian capital, consulting with Zelenskyy on next steps, honoring the country’s fallen soldiers and seeing U.S. embassy staff in the besieged country.

This is how the DAILY BEAST heralded the surprise trip:

Joe Biden arrived in ten hours on a train ride from Poland normally priced at $50 to celebrate Presidents’ Day with Voldoymyr Zelensky. Wearing his signature Ray-Ban aviator sunglasses, Amtrak Joe strolled the capital’s streets accompanied by the promise of an additional $500 million in weapons for Ukraine and the blare of klaxons warning of a possible Mig-31 jet fighter heading south from Belarus and armed with a Kinzhal hypersonic missile. The Ukrainian military has no defense against attack from hypersonic missiles.

MORE..

According to AFP, the alarm was heard when Biden and Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, flanked by armed security, were exiting St Michael’s Cathedral where the leaders had a meeting. The siren did not cause any panic, the news agency said...

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 4.2

1513 – Having spotted land on March 27, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León comes ashore on what is now the U.S. state of Florida, landing somewhere between the modern city of St. Augustine and the mouth of the St. Johns River. 1755 – Commodore William James captures the Maratha fortress of Suvarnadurg on the west coast of India. 1792 – The Coinage Act is passed by Congress, establishing the United States Mint. 1800 – Ludwig van Beethoven leads the premiere of his First Symphony in Vienna. 1801 – French Revolutionary Wars: In the Battle of Copenhagen a British Royal Navy squadron defeats a hastily assembled, smaller, mostly-volunteer Dano-Norwegian Navy at high cost, forcing Denmark out of the Second League of Armed Neutrality. 1863 – American Civil War: The largest in a series of Southern bread riots occurs in Richmond, Virginia. 1865 – American Civil War: Defeat at the Third Battle of Petersburg forces the Army of Northern Virginia and the Confederate government to abandon Richmond, Virginia. 1885 – Canadian Cree warriors attack the village of Frog Lake, killing nine. 1902 – Dmitry Sipyagin, Minister of Interior of the Russian Empire, is assassinated in the Mariinsky Palace, Saint Petersburg. 1902 – "Electric Theatre", the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles. 1911 – The Australian Bureau of Statistics conducts the country's first national census. 1912 – The ill-fated RMS Titanic begins sea trials. 1917 – American entry into World War I: President Wilson asks the U.S. Congress for a declaration of war on Germany. 1921 – The Autonomous Government of Khorasan, a military government encompassing the modern state of Iran, is established. 1930 – After the mysterious death of Empress Zewditu, Haile Selassie is proclaimed emperor of Ethiopia. 1954 – A 19-month-old infant is swept up in the ocean tides at Hermosa Beach, California. Local photographer John L. Gaunt photographs the incident; 1955 Pulitzer winner "Tragedy by the Sea". 1956 – As the World Turns and The Edge of Night premiere on CBS. The two soaps become the first daytime dramas to debut in the 30-minute format. 1964 – The Soviet Union launches Zond 1. 1972 – Actor Charlie Chaplin returns to the United States for the first time since being labeled a communist during the Red Scare in the early 1950s. 1973 – Launch of the LexisNexis computerized legal research service. 1975 – Vietnam War: Thousands of civilian refugees flee from Quảng Ngãi Province in front of advancing North Vietnamese troops. 1976 – Prince Norodom Sihanouk resigns as leader of Cambodia and is placed under house arrest. 1979 – A Soviet bio-warfare laboratory at Sverdlovsk accidentally releases airborne anthrax spores, killing 66 plus an unknown amount of livestock. 1980 – United States President Jimmy Carter signs the Crude Oil Windfall Profits Tax Act. 1982 – Falklands War: Argentina invades the Falkland Islands. 1986 – Alabama governor George Wallace, a former segregationist, best known for the "Stand in the Schoolhouse Door", announces that he will not seek a fifth four-year term and will retire from public life upon the end of his term in January 1987. 1989 – Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev arrives in Havana, Cuba, to meet with Fidel Castro in an attempt to mend strained relations. 1991 – Rita Johnston becomes the first female Premier of a Canadian province when she succeeds William Vander Zalm (who had resigned) as Premier of British Columbia. 1992 – In New York, Mafia boss John Gotti is convicted of murder and racketeering and is later sentenced to life in prison. 1992 – Forty-two civilians are massacred in the town of Bijeljina in Bosnia and Herzegovina. 2002 – Israeli forces surround the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, into which armed Palestinians had retreated. 2004 – Islamist terrorists involved in the 11 March 2004 Madrid attacks attempt to bomb the Spanish high-speed train AVE near Madrid; the attack is thwarted. 2006 – Over 60 tornadoes break out in the United States; Tennessee is hardest hit with 29 people killed. 2012 – A mass shooting at Oikos University in California leaves seven people dead and three injured. 2014 – A spree shooting occurs at the Fort Hood army base in Texas, with four dead, including the gunman, and 16 others injured. 2015 – Gunmen attack Garissa University College in Kenya, killing at least 148 people and wounding 79 others. 2015 – Four men steal items worth up to £200 million from an underground safe deposit facility in London's Hatton Garden area in what has been called the "largest burglary in English legal history." 2020 – COVID-19 pandemic: The total number of confirmed cases reach one million. 2021 – At least 49 people are killed in a train derailment in Taiwan after a truck accidentally rolls onto the track. 2021 – A Capitol Police officer is killed and another injured when an attacker rams his car into a barricade outside the United States Capitol.

[thugnificent714]

To continue with my research on the rooms of the winter palace, I would like to draw your attention to the rooms occupied by Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna (Eldest daughter of Tsar Nicholas I) and her husband, Maximilian Joseph Eugene Auguste Napoleon de Beauharnais, 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg. Also known as the 1st Reserved Apartment, this suite of 11 rooms (rooms 301-290) is located at the end of the Dark Corridor of the private apartments and runs along the inner courtyard side of the southwestern and southern wings (rooms above the famous Gates of the Palace). The couple were married on 2 July 1839 in the Grand Church of the Winter Palace. As Tsar Nicholas I's eldest and favourite child, she was given this suite of rooms following her marriage to the Duke as they waited construction of her own Palace which was completed in 1844 (known today as the Mariinsky Palace in St. Petersburg).

Room 167 - Small Fieldmarshal Hall

This room was used for the ceremonial change of the Palace guards. It allowed access to the 1st Reserved apartment (door located behind the view of the screenshot) and the apartments of future Tsarina Maria Alexandrovna, wife of Alexander II (doors shown in picture).

Room 301- Anteroom of the 1st Reserved Apartment

No paintings exist for this room but it served to received guests into the apartment suite.

Room 300- Small Study of Grand Duchess Maria

Room 299- Grand Duchess Maria's Dressing Room

Room 298- The Duke and Grand Duchess' Bedroom

Room 297- The Duke of Leuchtenberg's Dressing Room

296- Large Study of Grand Duchess Maria

Room 295- Yellow Salon of Grand Duchess Maria

Room 294- 1st Reserved Apartment Drawing-Room

Room 293- The Salon of the Duke of Leuchtenberg

Room 292- Drawing-Room of the Duke of Leuchtenberg

Room 291- The Study of the Duke of Leuchtenberg

Room 290- The Duke’s Valet/Wardrobe

This room was for the Duke's valet or manservant who tended to the Duke's clothes.

[fathimaglobo]

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