Subject: Russian Imperial Palace Exhibit
Edw. Hoyenski wrote:
"It was noted that in the Jackson, Mississippi exhibition that the
rooms are recreations by Russian craftsmen.  Yes, they are recreations.
If you visit the same palaces in Russia, you will also see recreations.
After WWII, almost all of the palaces around St.Petersburg (then Petrograd)
were little more than ruined shells.  The magnificent rooms that one walks
through in the palaces of Peterhoff, Tsarskoye Selo and Pavlovsk are all
restored masterpieces."

For those interested in recreations of Russian palaces, don't miss the
exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History, Amber: Window to the
Past. In addition to the scientific aspects of amber, we have 3 Russian
craftsmen working on an ongoing project to re-create the Amber Room that
disappeared from the Tsarskoye-Selo Palace outside Saint Petersburg. The
original amber panels, created in Germany in c. 1700 and given to Peter the
Great, disappeared during the Nazi occupation in 1941. Artisans have been
working for several years from a color photograph to reconstruct this
incredible magnum opus. The Russian craftsmen's stay in NYC has been
extended through the first of April.

Ellen Giusti, Exhibition Evaluator
American Museum of Natural History
Exhibition Department
Central Park West at 79th Street
New York, NY 10024

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