The Catherine Palace is a Baroque palace in Tsarskoye Selo, the town of Pushkin, south of St Petersburg, which was a summer residence of the Russian tsars. It was named after Catherine I, the wife of Peter the Great, who had a small palace built there, and was rebuilt on a grand scale for her daughter, Empress Elizabeth, by the architect Bartolomeo Rastrelli. The facade is blue and white with gilded decorations, and the interior contained the famous Amber Room, made of panels of amber. German troops looted the palace during the Second World War and burned it. It was painstakingly rebuilt, and a reconstruction of the Amber Room was unveiled in 2003.
Before and after
- 2 November 1755Birth of Marie Antoinette
- 17 November 1755Birth of Louis XVIII of France
- 27 January 1756Birth of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- from 17 May 1756 to 15 February 1763Seven Years' War
- 30 July 1756Construction of Catherine Palace
- from 29 August 1756 to 15 February 1763Third Silesian War
- from 13 September 1757 to 22 May 1762Pomeranian War
- 9 October 1757Birth of Charles X of France
- 28 November 1757Birth of William Blake
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- 1600Rise of Baroque music
- 1670Construction of avenue des Champs-Élysées
- 17th centuryRise of ukiyo-e
- 25 April 1719Publication of Robinson Crusoe
- October 1745Publication of God Save the King
The era
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