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Blue Salon
Blue Salon
 
 
 
 

The Blue Salon joins the Oval Salon to the Empress's study. Its doors are built of mahogany and it has a lovely chimney with mirror and a spectacular ceiling painted by Scotti. The chimney adornment, the bronzes, the vases and jardinieres filled with flowers and plants have give this salon the feeling of relaxed, elegant comfort, which was greatly sought after by aristocratic St. Petersburg households at the start of the 19th century. Over time, this salon underwent many changes which altered its appearance. In 1909, when all of these photographs were taken, the furniture and the gaudy blue floral wall hangings - which are of the Second Empire style - had been added during the reign of Alexander III. They clash with the original decoration of the room and the overall effect was disturbing to purists who preferred the more artistic styles of an earlier age over the middle class tastes of the last Tsars.

Le salon bleu réunit la salle ovale au cabinet de travail de l'Impératrice. Ses portes sont en acajou sculpté avec dorures; il est orné d'une belle cheminée avec glace et d'un ravissant plafond peint par Scotti.  La garniture de cheminée, les bronzes, les vases et les jardinniéres, remplis de fleurs et de plantes devaient donner à ce salon cet aspect de confort délicieux, qu'on aimait tant au commencement du XIX siécle et que nous tâchons de retrouver de nos jours. Il est malheureux que l'ensemble de ce salon ne nous ait été conservé, que les meubles que nous voyons et surtout les tentures d'un bleu criard et grossier, dans la goût de second Empire, soient venus se mêler au meubles délicieux du premier Empire, qu'on trouve encore presque partout dans les autres parties et piéces du palais et qui témoignent de la floraison du style Empire en Russie.

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