The Great Palace of the Moscow Kremlin

Fülszöveg

The Great Palace, built in the mid-nineteenth century
to the design of the well-known Russian architect
Konstantin Thon, is one of the most interesting
landmarks in the Moscow Kremlin. It is the seat of
the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, the highest legislative
body of the Soviet state, and of the Supreme Soviet of
the RSFSR, the largest of the Soviet republics. It
is in the Great Palace that talks between leaders of
the Communist Party, the Soviet Government and
foreign delegations take place; large state receptions
and all-union conferences of scientists, artists and
the foremost workers are held; and high governmental
awards are presented. The state St George, St Vladimir
and St Catherine Halls, as well as the State and Private
Apartments, are lavishly decorated with mouldings,
murals, statues, vases, exquisite furniture, and
numerous objets d'art. This nineteenth-century complex
incorporates various buildings which had formed
part of the old Great Sovereign's... Tovább

Fülszöveg

The Great Palace, built in the mid-nineteenth century
to the design of the well-known Russian architect
Konstantin Thon, is one of the most interesting
landmarks in the Moscow Kremlin. It is the seat of
the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, the highest legislative
body of the Soviet state, and of the Supreme Soviet of
the RSFSR, the largest of the Soviet republics. It
is in the Great Palace that talks between leaders of
the Communist Party, the Soviet Government and
foreign delegations take place; large state receptions
and all-union conferences of scientists, artists and
the foremost workers are held; and high governmental
awards are presented. The state St George, St Vladimir
and St Catherine Halls, as well as the State and Private
Apartments, are lavishly decorated with mouldings,
murals, statues, vases, exquisite furniture, and
numerous objets d'art. This nineteenth-century complex
incorporates various buildings which had formed
part of the old Great Sovereign's Palace: the famous
Faceted Palace, the Tsarina's Golden Chamber, the
Zhiletskaya Chamber, and also the palace churches
of the fourteenth-seventeenth centuries, and the Terem
Palace, one of the masterpieces of seventeenth-century
Russian architecture. In publishing this volume Aurora
continues to present the architectural and artistic
monuments of the Moscow Kremlin. The first title
in this series, The Faceted Chamber of the Moscow
Kremlin, appeared in 1978. Vissza