St Petersburg Palaces of the Romanovs
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- čas přidán 12. 01. 2021
- Discover the Romanov palaces of St Petersburg, which remain scattered throughout the city of St Petersburg today. Embellished with gold yet plagued with whispers of conspiracy and insurrection, these numerous palaces offer valuable insight into the rise and fall of one of the world’s greatest empires.
The Bolsheviks would be turning in their graves to hear us say it, but the House of Romanov laid the foundations of St Petersburg with that indelible magnificence of the early Russian Empire. The city’s patron and namesake, Peter the Great, became Russia’s first emperor in 1721, and his lineage was responsible for the architectural development of St Petersburg for almost 200 years thereafter.
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I was in Russia in October 2019 and visited all those palaces. The gardens and fountains of Peterhoff are absolutely breathtaking, especially the main fountain which water ends in the Finland strait. I also visited the Faberge Museum and the Yusupov palace where Rasputin was killed. Unfortunately in the winter palace the peacock clock was not working. I have over a thousand pictures of this trip. Unforgettable!
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I would definitely want to visit the Romanovs graves...my heart goes out for them...Love & respect from Pakistan 🌹🌍🕊
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I lived in St Petersburg back in 1992, and remember fondly visiting several of these palaces....especially Catherine's Palace in Pushkin. When I lived there, I was captivated by the history of the city during the Siege, and as such, when walking the rooms of the Catherine palace, I was struck that 50 years ago (this was in 1992), those very rooms were occupied by German soldiers who were there to ensure the utter destruction of Leningrad and everyone who lived there. It was a very somber realization. Walking that palace, it's hard to believe it is an almost complete reconstruction....as, as was mentioned in the video, the Germans virtually destroyed it when they retreated. They would have destroyed the palace completely, but a bomb they left behind (500 pounds) failed to detonate.
Thank you for sharing with us your personal experience, Sebastian! Best wishes!
A visit to St Petersburg, Russia, should be on everyone’s bucket list. Must be seen to be believed.
The Germans’ destruction of that palace should have listed as another one of their war crimes.
The least of those crimes.
You mean the Bolshevik not the gearmans
@@domfrommelb27 the both
Yeah, like the Soviets did with Konigsberg
The Soviets also destroyed Konigsberg and turned it into a Russian city This is a crime
I'm so excited about the restoration of the Alexander Palace and its interiors. Everyone will love Alexandra's Maple Drawing Room, for example. Yes, the originals are gone forever, but when you look at those rooms, it almost makes you feel like they were never really gone because the accuracy to the originals is stunning.
Indeed!
I take it you appreciate the beauty, and i can understand that, in isolation. But put it into context. Don't forget the true human cost of creating these works of art. Don't praise the royals, praise the peasants whose suffering truly created these works of art.
@@MarySmith-gu5nb All of it goes hand in hand so there's that. The people loved the Romanovs and Catherine the Great did a lot for the Russia. The Bolsheviks sadly killed *millions* of Russians (and Ukrainians) when they came in charge but that too is apart of Russian history and all ties together which makes Russian history even more fascinating because of their will to survive and bounce back and Russian strength. That's like suggesting the Titanic was a hunk of junk and should just be forgotten in history because Irish peasants built it for rich companies.
Amazing beauty of all the palaces,the Romanov cannot be forgotten,thank you for sharing the history of Russia
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@@RomanovRoyalMartyrs yes i enjoyed watching and to know about the Romanov and the history of your country,💞💞💞
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So stunningly beautiful
Stunning beautiful chapter of World History!
DO you even hear yourself?
Russian artwork has always fascinated me. Their woodworking is stunning as well. Even their classical musicals.
And literature.
I plan to go back to St Petersburg to see more of the Palaces...and to visit a friend+her family😀
Hope you manage to do that soon! And enjoy! Thanks for watching!
Each palace is beautiful. It hurts me to know that many of their descendants are alive, but cant live in those palaces due to past history. Just beautiful!
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If the world returns to some normal ... I’m going to St Petersburg as well as the Winter Palace Tsarselov. As a retired Delta flight attendant, this had been my dream for over 40 years. I retired just as Delta started flights to Moscow. People used to take travel for granted ✈️ before restrictions.
I’m very lucky to have my standby almost free Delta travel benefits. They mean more to me than a pension. Travel is my healthy & happy addiction.
The most interesting people are travelers 🌎🌍🌏🤗✈️
Same. I’ve been dreaming of going there since I was a kid.
Hello, Rob! Our best wishes for you to accomplish your wonderful dream! And we'd be so happy to hear back here from you about your experience once you visit! All the best!
Rob you're so lucky!
@@trawlins396 hi Charlotte believe me I did not work for DELTA AIR LINES for over 30 years to sit around I wanted to explore the planet I especially want to go to Russia and I would give anything to meet the gymnasts....
@@jetlagrob so you were a flight attendant on 9/11? That must've been scary.
🙏❤️ Thankyou much love & blessings from UK London 🇬🇧
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One of my most fervent desires is to visit St. Petersburg. Not just for a quick sightseeing tour, but for several weeks and take my time to visit all the marvels of Imperial Russia. After that, Moscow!
Architecture like this is so unfathomably beautiful. The fact that we humans have the power and glory in our hands to craft some thing this remarkable is remarkable within itself. So much more intriguing and romantic than the likes of today’s architecture.
Is like to imagine The Romanov Family walking over this beautiful Palaces. My dream is going To visit St Petersburg and Ekaterinburg
I can imagine what Russian people suffered trying to build them
@@alkyoni9891 In this life we don't chose To born Rich or Poor they were a good exemple and a normal famille, just one thing... if they wasn't the tzars of Russian just a normal famille with 5 childrens, you Will say the same thing? of course Russian people suffered because of the bolcheviques now you can say that Russian people suffered cause they also kill poor people
@Daan Schlüter No they suffered from hunger,cold tiresome and from being punished severely even little children.You know there was slavery in Russia until Catherine the Great's era
@@pogonaVisitor you're right, that they cannot be faulted for what they were born into. What they are faulted for is believing the hype and exacerbating the situation. Nickie and alix truly believed it was the Will of God for them to rule Russia. They therefore had no accountability to anyone else.
Consider their imperial lives. They maintained a staff of 50 seamstresses to do nothing but sew, embroider and embellish their clothing. They had a car garage built to house the world's large auto collection (57 cars) at a time when cars were impossibly expensive and only starting to be manufactured. In 1911, nicky had the palaces at Livadia torn down (and they were architectural masterpieces, only 50 years old), to build HIS preferred palace at livadia. At a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars in today's money. He was doing this at a time when ordinary russians were starving and dying of sickness and poverty. They amassed more precious jewels than all the other monarchies of Europe combined. They were drunk with selfish abandon.
For all of this and more (disastrous wars, horrible political policies and the Duma, more too numerous to go into here), they CAN be faulted. They were the ugliest sort of entitlement and did not care about the little guy, even at the end, sewing jewels into their clothing.
No pity, no empathy from me. Horrible people.
@Daan Schlüter no. Not commie speak. The speech of a human being with some empathy for their fellow man, unlike you, who apparently imagines himself as part of that aristocratic wannabe, oligarchic class.
Thank you for sharing this awesome piece of history !
Always our pleasure, Heather!
Wonderful program! Thank you for posting it.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Ojala algun dia pueda conocer tan grandioso pais con una fascinante historia
Romantic lives of the Royal Romanov Martyrs! 🙏
Tsar Nikolas was a handsome man, it is next to Impossible to not be captivated by his moustache and sharp visage.
And likeness to England’s King George
Absolutely stunning. Russian art was at it's height during those years. What terrible destruction was done by the Germans.
This is a dream of mine - to visit Russia and see all those palaces and visit the countryside. Russian people seem like wonderful people. I love their language and customs.
We hope your dream will come true!
Stunning! Magnificent! Thank you for uploading.
You are very welcome!
They all sound wonderful. Don't know if I'd visit if, like Versailles, I wouldn't be allowed to touch anything, however. The feel of gold leaf on marble is stunning.
It's so beautiful, i wish i can visit it someday. It's so far away from my country
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Breathtakingly beautiful!
I absolutely love this channel!!
So glad!
How beautiful.
i don't travel much, but if i did, i'd love to see these places. even the videos are wonderful though!
Maybe one day!
I would love to go to those palaces!
Me too.
The Romanov Castle would house my entire immediate familie's and their familie's, and for generations to come. And then some more. We'd truly all be together. I
think i'd be happy.
✨🌼🌿...only Universalists & Daydreamers can imagine Historical Royal palaces being so Gloriously Beautiful!!!
Thank you so very much for this beautiful video showing the palaces my ancestors lived I appreciate the attention that was paid too the kind words spoken not sharing slander that even still my family and relatives still must live with
Imagine the treasure trove of exquisite historical buildings, cultural sites and charming rural villages that would be the Russian countryside today if the Soviets didn't take over and centralize the population in the cities to make Cheeki Breeki central
Absolutely amazing!!
so sad what happened
I juat saw in Netflix the last czars is about the Romanov family its very sad 😥
I have vistited there in 1987, then called Leningrad. Hard to believe this city near the old villages.
Long live The Romanov Martyrs. I'm sure you're reigning, Alexei.
I love Romanov family
The next time I visit the in-laws in Sweden, we are planning a side trip to St Petersburg.
Tsarist Russia is beautiful.
NAOTMAA Forever chers from Spain
Maybe you should have lived there as a simple citizen,and then tell us if it was beautiful
Simple or noble does not matter.
Спасибо красиво спасибо thank you very mach
Peterhof ist mein lieblingsort...ein Sommer Wunder Wo mein Herz die Liebe soll finden...Ein Ball und Die Herzen tanzen...Aber mit mehr Still heutzutage Tanzen ist so grasslich(wirklich?) 💕Marie
& this ones a real gem, due to artifical intelligence it chills i have a photo of the family brought back to life the whole family sitting down all with smiles on their faces it's quite chilling where someone it i very very chilling it will tear you apart, it's amazing looking too
These beautiful palaces are monuments to the people who built them . They are magnificent. The Nazis in WW11 why on earth did they destroy this beautiful place. Now restored and they are all dead. The craftsmen who did all of these glorious places now we can all see forever. Thankyou.
The Nazis destroyed everything they could, especially innocent lives
Ironic that the Nikolas and Alexandra royal family, themselves, had no interest in massive residences, and always lived in small apartments within them. Despite the palacial grandeur, their kids were brought up in rather austere conditions - which has parallels to the child-rearing policies of some of the British royal families around those times. This all makes sense when you consider that Alex was Queen Victoria's grand-daughter; and though equally fluent in her native German, her first mother tongue was English. The OTMA girls and Alexei were cared for by proper English nannies.
Actually OTMA to the English Kings horror on a visit was said to speak English with an Irish accent due to thier Irish nannie.
@@missmiawallis706 Ha ha, that's so cute, I would _love_ to have heard them speak! Hard to imagine that an Irish accent (so musical and delightful to my ears) was incompatible with being 'ruling class', in those days. Anyway, ƒµÇ≤ George V & fam, if they had a problem with it. :^D lol
Otoh, I understand they tended to speak English with their mother Alex, as well, who would have had a very posh accent, passed 2 generations directly from Victoria herself...
@@pbasswil I agree,so lovely and refreshing they must have been. They must have been great company.
Wow!
Absolutely Awesome! Tsarist Russia...what a great epoch!🙏👑✝️
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Wow 😍 is Just Amazing They really have Money back in the day
To the czar it looks like the chess piece next to you but quite exquisite place a wee bit too ambient and vanity for me but either whoo a respectively bow
Woooooow!
I wanna go sooo bad. There isn't enough vacation time on the planet to cover the time I'd want to spend There.
Audio makes it difficult to hear, very amateur
I'm surprised the masses didn't burn it all to the ground back then.
Зато "цивилизованные" немцы постарались уничтожить 😏 бомбили в войну историческое наследие России.
You have to admit the opulence they lived in while the people were starving in the streets is beyond tyrannical. Im surprised they lasted as long as they did. However, to excuse innocent children shows just how evil the hearts of men can decend.
Do you think today’s world is much better!.,?!
@@brankakrcmarevic3762 What does that have to do with the death of Romonovs?
@@RoseSharon7777 nothing with the death of Romanovs, but today’s also same way ,how luxurious live some people, and on the other side of planet earth people are starving and dying...
#ROMANOVS IMPERIAL ROYAL FAMILY👍
Why The descendants of the tsar live or claim the wealth and the palaces? I don’t understand
The color of Airforce One
Could the romanovs of today claim these palaces since technically they belonged to their relatives?
They belong to the Russian people
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It's a shocker i actually have a recording of one of the killers of The Ramanov family it goes for 3:16 it's quite harrowing
Viva quizar.
Please can you please remember whilst living in the lap of absolute luxury in these magnificent tour de force of architecture and design, the masses were starving and dying in the streets.
That's true. And sad.
Do you think today is big difference?
@@brankakrcmarevic3762 Confusing for me in England. What is communism? So many Russian billionaires ? Corruption time for another revolution !
@Mable Trey If I was a Russian Oligarch maybe I could relax knowing the security surrounding me was in place. History repeats itself !
Probably in Austria...a train( Marie Romanov)
pretty
Great presentation 💕Thank you Putin(I don't like messed up jeans...only blue and white Tshirts)
If history teaches one thing,is to keep,the high status,and never obey,for regency is a very high sight,is the divine... nothing alike...is the Royal trademark -TM-Red Hair....
Why would you put a “RT” border that fogs out the exquisite beauty of some of the most magnificent art treasures in the world?
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Alte cu lui zeu.
The tragedy of Nickolas II and his family was the making of of the entire Romanov dynasty since the beginning. Every Tsar of Russia were cruel rulers and
had no real feelings for the ordinary folk of Russia. That resulted to the Bolshevik revolution. It was the revenge of the Russian people against the oppression of the Romanov dynasty for more than 300 years. Let it be a lesson for our
present day leaders.
You won't like weather and...people of S. Petersburg, though. Both are weird af.
The dude could have worn a nicer pair of pants. Geez, That just looks sloppy.
I see no DIVERSITY...no POC's
because russia is in Europe not africa
He said diversity of buildings
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If you want to be a You Tube narrator...put some pants on without rips. Thanks
Shame rt blocked
Terrible music…and so annoying
WITH ALL THIS WEALTH N THE PEOPLE STARVING NO WONDER THE ROMANOV’S WE’RE MURDERED 🧐✔️
Nah, thats not why they were murdered. For the past two generations, both of their russian leaders were great until nicholas II. He even acknowledged he had no experience leading and didnt want to inherit the power, but had to anyways. He was initially suppose to be murdered so they could overthrow him (even though it was conpletely unnecessary ), the economy kind of failed after the war that went on, but it was the event called "Bloody sunday" that motivated the british army (i believe) to kill them. Killing the children though was absolutely unnecessary. I do believe that anastasia and her brother got away just with stab and gunshot wounds, considering they didnt discover their bodies until decades later, and they were buried distantly from the other graves.
Péssimo!!!
On Biden's inauguration day, I'm either going to fly my USA flag half mast or upside down.
Biden is the new communism
These palaces were built to extreme excess, while peasants starved and froze to death. The romanovs, in power during this 300 years, KNEW that and didn't care. Peasants were an inexhaustable resource as far as they wete concerned.
Not saying they deserved execution. I would have preferred to see them lead the lives of the poorest peasantry. Hard labor till they all died of communicable diseases or exhaustion.
Very true and terrible! The emperors/empresses treated the peasents like commodities and gave them as presents to their lovers, at least Catherine the Great. Thousands died building St. Petersburg, living and working in terrible conditions. But the results were what expected.
Much worse punishment i think.But i suppose if they have lived they would have tried to bring back monarchy one day them or their descendants.I can see it in Greece.We abolished monarchy exiled the king and his family forbade them to visit Greece.First of all ex king sued Greek state in the European courts for the land he supposedly owed in the country and took 13 Million as a compensation from the state aka the Greek people.Second he still goes around as King of Greece and his descendants as princes and princesses of Greece.And third he is now living in Greece ,he and his second son ( our pro royalist corrupted politicians permitted it).
But he never denounced his title.He is keeping a low profile and the family also,but I know that deep inside them they are wishing for some day they will rule again.
People are furious about that.They don't like seeing in internet and everywhere this ex king and his descendants present themselves as King and queen and princes of Greece.Greece is a presidential democracy.
But then Lenin and Stalin had made Russia great, rich, and safe again!???🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤮🤮🤮
@@alkyoni9891 Possibly, but at least they had earned their punishment. All of the other Russian peasants who met that fate were completely innocent. THEY did not, even in the face of peasant rebellion, try to secret away precious jewels in their clothing. Think of that. Anything was preferable to having to live as ordinary people.
ALL of aristocracy has behaved this way. King Edward backed off on his offer to give them safe harbor in England because he was afraid of being rebelled against by his own peasants. Think about what that means! He was willing to let his own family members be executed by rabble-rousers rather than give up any facet of his own privilege. His wealth was important to him than even his family.
These people disgust me.
@@joan22 no one is saying their communist successors were good or even less corrupt. They were, after all, unprepared for the task. Lenin never dreamed he would see the day the revolution came to pass and said so frequently in his writings.
The point is, the communist rebellion was not worse than what these oligarchs inflicted on their subjects, with apparently complete obliviousness to their suffering.
IT’S ALL SO DISGUSTING 🤢