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This is the former Gothic Drawing-Room of the apartments
decorated by the architect Briullov for Grand Duchesses Olga and Alexandra,
daughters of Nicholas I, after the fire of 1837. The groin vaults
of the hall rest on the two pillars of different diametres and on
the correspondingly arranged pilasters projecting from the walls and
surrounded with bundles of "Gothic" columns. The moulded plant motifs
on the archivolts, the rosettes decorating the doors, the intricate
capitals of the columns - all this rich moulded décor of the room
reflects the architect's interest in the art of the Middle Ages. The
exhibition housed in the room features artifacts dating from the 6th-2nd
millennia BC unearthed on the territories of Russia, Ukraine, Moldavia
and Central Asia. Worthy of special attention are the slab with petroglyphs
from Cape Peri Nos III (4th millennium BC) in Karelia, The Head
of an Elk (3rd millennium BC) from the Shegir peat-bog in Sverdlovsk
Region, the idol (3rd millennium BC) from the settlement Usviaty
IV (Pskov Region) as well as the female statuette dating from the
2nd millennium BC which was found during the excavations of the
town of Altyn-Depe in Turkmenia. |
