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This staircase designed in the mid-19th century by the
architect Andrei Stakenschneider connects three buildings - the Small,
the Great and the New Hermitages. Light colours dominate the interior:
the walls are adorned with panels and pilasters of white and pink
stucco, the top of the staircase is decorated with white marble pillars.
The ceiling painting Virtues Introducing Russian Youths to Minerva
by Gabriel Doyenne originally had decorated the Oval Hall that was
replaced with the staircase. The malachite vase in the "Russian mosaic
technique" was produced at the Yekaterinburg Lapidary Works in the
1850s. The entrance and the staircase owe their name to the meetings
of the State Council held on the ground floor of the Great Hermitage
in the mid-19th century. |
