Paul I’s Lower Throne Room
There were four throne rooms at the Gatchina Palace. This hall displays the installation of Paul I’s Lower Throne Room that was located in the suite of private rooms on the ground floor. The room was quite modestly decorated with a lightly painted ceiling, Italian and Venitician paintings and portraits of A. Menshikov and B. Minich on the walls, and decorative art pieces on console tables - the vases made at the Imperial Porcelain Factory in 1797 and a plaster bust of Henry IV, King of France, who Paul I greatly admired.
Placed next to the tiled stove in front of the monumental portrait of Paul I by F. Jouvenet (1717), on an elevation, was a gilded wooden chair with an orange canopy above it.
Until 1941 the appearance of the Throne Room was preserved as it was in the spring of 1800 during Paul’s last visit to the Palace.
The most valuable items from the room’s interior decoration - seventeenth and eighteenth century paintings (only two pictures were lost) - survived the Second World War.
See on interactive plan
There were four throne rooms at the Gatchina Palace. This hall displays the installation of Paul I’s Lower Throne Room that was located in the suite of private rooms on the ground floor. The room was quite modestly decorated with a lightly painted ceiling, Italian and Venitician paintings and portraits of A. Menshikov and B. Minich on the walls, and decorative art pieces on console tables - the vases made at the Imperial Porcelain Factory in 1797 and a plaster bust of Henry IV, King of France, who Paul I greatly admired.
Placed next to the tiled stove in front of the monumental portrait of Paul I by F. Jouvenet (1717), on an elevation, was a gilded wooden chair with an orange canopy above it.
Until 1941 the appearance of the Throne Room was preserved as it was in the spring of 1800 during Paul’s last visit to the Palace.
The most valuable items from the room’s interior decoration - seventeenth and eighteenth century paintings (only two pictures were lost) - survived the Second World War.
See on interactive plan