Tsar’s palace found
NZPA-Reuter Moscow Soviet conservationists have found the former palace of Tsar Peter the Great under the site of the Hermitage theatre in Leningrad, Tass news agency reported. It said they discovered the walls and courtyard of the palace while carrying out reconstruction work at the theatre. The two-storey palace near the River Neva, with some 40 rooms, included the personal suite of the eight-eenth-century tsar and a little jetty for his boat. Architectural experts said the building was most likely to have been the site of the second Winter Palace, constructed between 1716 and 1720 by the architect, George Johann Matarnovy. The second building subsided under mud on the banks of the river, and the theatre was constructed on the site. The third Winter Palace, the current monument, was built next to it from 1754 to 1762, by the architect, Bartolomeo Rastrelli. Tass said stove tiles, clay pipes, pottery and stained glass had been found in the palace, which surrounded a courtyard with statues and a fountain in the centre.
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Press, 10 January 1986, Page 23
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