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These rooms occupy the part of the second floor of the
Winter Palace where the private apartments of Emperor Nicholas I were
originally situated. The main decorative detail of the secretary of
state's former office is the ceiling painted in imitation of coffering.
The exhibition displayed in the room features lacquer ware of the
late 17th century and paintings on canvas produced in the early 19th
century. Worthy of special interest among them are portraits of Fatkh-Ali-Shah,
the ruler of Iran, painted by the artist Mihr-Ali. The former Portraiture
Drawing-Room of Nicholas I preserved the original ceiling décor -
the vault in the shape of a dome painted in grisaille, with the painted
images of the genii of glory in the pendentives. Displayed in this
room are a fine collection of Iranian ceramics dating from the 16th
and 17th centuries and ranking with the world's best collections of
this kind, as well as one of the largest and high-quality collections
of copper and brass vessels of the same period, specimens of Iranian
miniatures and the carpets dating from the 17th century. |
