Red Drawing Room, Yusupov Palace, St. Petersburg, Russia

            The interior is issued in stylistics of late Russian classicism.  Interior decoration 1830-s, architect A. Mikhailov. 
The Red Drawing Room (also known as Purple, Gold, or Imperial) is the most memorable and remarkable. It was also know as the Golden, or Imperial Drawing Room, because there always was a portrait of the ruling monarch on the central wall of the room. At present there  is the portrait of the first owner of the house, Princess Z. I. Yusupova in its place. Princess Yusupova, nee Naryshkina, married Prince B. N. Yusupov when she was only 16. One of the best beauties of Pushkin's St. Petersburg, the Princess widowed early and later married the French subject, Count De Chauveau. She died in France, aged 83.
The set of carved gilded furniture is specially made of 28 objects for this drawing room (the 1840th years, Russia). (Wood, silk, carving, gilding). The panels on the walls are made of purple silk with golden patterns. Mosaic parquet from valuable breeds of a tropical tree.
Painting, Portrait of Zinaida Yusupova. Oil on canvas, modern copy (original by Louis-Edouard  Dubufe,1858, is in the collection of the Pavlovsk State Museum)
Красная гостиная, ее также называли Золотой и Имперской, потому что  на центральной стене комнаты всегда висел портрет правящего монарха. Сейчас на этом месте весит портрет первой хозяйки дворца княгини Зинаиды Ивановны Юсуповой, урожденной Нарышкиной (масло, современная копия (оригинал Луи-Эдуард Дюбюфе, 1858, находится в коллекции Павловского государственного музея)).  З. Нарышкина, вышла замуж за князя Б.Н. Юсупова, когда ей было всего 16 лет. Одна из лучших красавиц Пушкинского Санкт-Петербурга, княгиня рано овдовела и позже вышла замуж за французского  графа де Шово. Умерла во Франции в возрасте 83 лет.
Интерьер гостинной оформлен выполнен по проекту архитектора А. А. Михайлова в 1830-е годы в стилистике позднего русского классицизма.  
Гарнитур резной золоченой мебели из 28 предметов специально изготовлен для этой гостиной (1840-е годы, Россия).
Панели на стенах выполнены из бордового шелка с золотыми узорами. 
Паркет пола набран из различных пород тропических деревьев.
   

Taken on: January 11, 2018

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