Catherine's Bedroom
Next to the study is the Bedroom. It has also two windows,
facing the Private Garden. The walls and ceiling are decorated
with glass and china plates of a milky white colour with light-bronze
ornaments and medallions of Wedgewood porcelain; the doors are
ornamented in the same style; behind an alcove, stands, the bed;
between the windows is a broad mirror from ceiling to floor; the
over doors are of glass and bronze; on the transversal walls,
between dark-lilac glass columns with bronze capitals and bases,
hang three mirrors, the alcove is hidden by a broad mirror with
similar columns; the chimney is framed with massive gilt bronze
and porcelain medallions; on the walls hang four lanterns of Catherine's
time. In the alcove is kept the rolling arm chair of the Empress;
in niches before the alcove stand two precious Chinese vases of
the 15th century; in the wall cupboard is kept a Chinese enamel
service of extraordinary fine work; the furniture of the room
is covered with white silk and is of the time of the Emperor Alexander
II. It haven't yet been restored after the WW2.
