1889 Winter Palace at Saint Petersburg Russia ; Military Pier Lion Statue Neva

Description: Antique hand-colored woodcut print : " The Winter Palace " ( Saint Petersburg , Russia ) The Winter Palace , Military Officers , Palace Pier , Lion Statue , Neva River , River boat , Sailors , etc. After a drawing by T. de Thulstrup and Charles Graham. ( image is signed in the plate, " Graham - Thulstrup " ) -------- Thure de Thulstrup (1848-1930 ), American artist, born in Sweden. As an illustrator he contributed to numerous magazines, including much work for Harper's Weekly. Thulstrup primarily illustrated historical military scenes. Charles Graham (1852-1911) was an American artist. --------- This print is undated, however it is a woodcut from a book published in 1889. Colored by hand with watercolor paints. Matted. Mat size is 9" x 12" Image size is about 4 3/4" x 7 1/2" The print is over 130 years old. Nice Condition. Carefully packed for shipment to the buyer. ------------- Historical information : The Winter Palace A palace in Saint Petersburg that served as the official residence of the Russian Emperor from 1732 to 1917. The palace and its precincts now house the Hermitage Museum. Situated between Palace Embankment and Palace Square, adjacent to the site of Peter the Great's original Winter Palace, the present and fourth Winter Palace was built and altered almost continuously between the late 1730s and 1837, when it was severely damaged by fire and immediately rebuilt. The storming of the palace in 1917, as depicted in Soviet art and in Sergei Eisenstein's 1928 film " October ", became an iconic symbol of the Russian Revolution. The tsars of Russia ( tzar , czar ) constructed their palaces on a monumental scale that aimed to reflect the might and power of Imperial Russia. From the Winter Palace, the tsars ruled more than 8,800,000 square miles - almost 1/6 of the Earth's landmass, and 125 million subjects by the end of the 19th century. Several architects participated in designing the Winter Palace ( most notably the Italian Bartolomeo Rastrelli [1700-1771 ] ) in what became known as the Elizabethan Baroque style. The palace has the overall shape of an elongated rectangle, and its principal façade is 705 feet long and 98 feet high. The Winter Palace has been calculated to contain 1,886 doors, 1,945 windows, 1,500 rooms and 117 staircases. Following a serious fire, the palace's rebuilding of 1837 left the exterior unchanged, but large parts of the interior were redesigned. In 1905 the Bloody Sunday massacre occurred when demonstrators marched toward the Winter Palace, but by this time the Imperial Family had chosen to live in the more secure and secluded Alexander Palace at Tsarskoe Selo, and returned to the Winter Palace only for formal and state occasions. Following the February Revolution of 1917, the palace operated for a short time as the seat of the Russian Provisional Government, ultimately led by Alexander Kerensky. Later that same year a detachment of Red Guard soldiers and sailors stormed the palace - a defining moment in the birth of the Soviet state. Lions on Palace Pier On the embankment in front of the east wing of the Admiralty, Palace Pier is a broad flight of granite steps leading down to the Neva river. The two lions that flank the steps on pedestals are among the best known sculptures in St. Petersburg. The lions, modeled on marble statues on the Piazza della Signoria in Florence, Italy, were constructed from bronze leaf by the German craftsman, Johan Gottlieb Prang to designs by sculptor Ivan Prokofiev, and unveiled in the year 1832. Among many examples of ceremonial lions in St. Petersburg, they are undoubtedly the most famous.

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