Alexander Palace

About Alexander Palace Android App

World masterpieces, the richest collections, the reborn Alexander Palace and the fantastic views of the surrounding parks now start life on your Android.
Take a virtual tour around Tsarskoye Selo - the former ceremonial residence and the place of living of the Russian Emperors, a national treasure of the present Russia and a part of the world's cultural heritage.
The magnificent palaces with the surrounding parks. Best of the best that the humanity can create up to the beginning of the 20th century. Interiors, sculpture, paintings, furniture, porcelains, gifts, ancient marbles, enfilades, landscaped parks with amazing pavilions and so on, and little more.
This unique virtual tour is based on 3D panoramas with the addition power of hundreds of superb quality images and navigation maps.
We hope you pay attention for the good usability.
Enjoy the museum under your fingertips!
About Museum:
The Alexander Palace (New Tsarskoselsky) was presented as a gift by Catherine II to her eldest grandson, the future Emperor Alexander I.
The Alexander Palace was a summer dacha for the Imperial Family in the 19th century, but it became a real home for the last Russian Emperor Nicholas II and his wife Alexandra Feodorovna during the last 13 years of their reign.
In 1918 the Alexander Palace was opened to visitors as a state museum. Later the left-hand wing was turned into a rest home for NKVD staff, while on the second storey of the right-hand wing the former secluded rooms of Nicholas II’s children became an orphanage named after the “Young Communards”.
During the occupation of Pushkin the palace housed the German army staff and the Gestapo. The cellars became a prison and the square in front of the palace a cemetery for members of the SS.
At the end of the war conservation work was carried out in the palace and in 1946 it was handed over to the All-Union Pushkin Museum.
In 1951 a government decision handed the Alexander Palace to the Naval Department.
In late 2009, the palace recovered its museum status and restoration work started.