The Winter Palace- Last Tsar's Private Rooms

[PureSoapCleans]

Where communism shows his head, you know that death, hunger, persecution and fear will follow, they go together. Every communist country in history is the same: North Korea, Cuba, Roumania, USSR, China, etc.

[kmshaw54]

@RomanovMartyrs - Starving during wartime was not a 20th century phenomenon. However, Lenin and Stalin were experts at inventing policies that starved to death millions in Ukraine after the civil war was over and during "peace". That is if you want to call the years of Stalin's terror "peace".

[grandduchess1958]

it sucks that the stupid bolshvicks killed the romanovs they did not disurve to die. i wish i was born back then because i wanted to meet them and tell the bolshvicks to stay away from them but it did not work! rest in peace Olga,Tatiana,Maria,Anastasia,A­lexi,Nicolas, and Alexandera! god shall take care of you forever i will see you in heaven in a long time but the years shall come quick and our time we can play and have fun in peace forever and ever!

[ForeverComplaining]

@RomanovMartyrs Yeah, when people starve they turn to all these extreme measures :(

But communism didn't do them well did it?! 10s of millions died, every family suffered a loss and the majority were starving, falsed into slave labour... and I don't even know how it can be called communist? there was still an elite power hungry crowd at the top, whilst everyone else worked harder than ever!

[strelna1917]

There are many photographs of the apartments of Nicholas & Alexandra taken before and after the Bolshevik Revolution, which show their pristine condition as well as the destruction wrought by the Bolshevik Revolution.

[strelna1917]

There definitely was a swimming pool bath located in N II's apartment in the WP - at the end of his long former Study (just before one enters the Library) there is a door to small room (now a Catalog Dept.) in which it was built. He desribes this "bassein" in his Diary for 1895 as does Gromov in his memoir, "My Recollections of 50 Years" - the "Winter Palace", which I translated and published through Bookemon publishers. It is available from "Bookemon" under "The Winter Palace".

[mayorov1]

Jonathan would like to visit someday in St. Petersburg, but in the mean time Misha A. Mayorov, checkout Mayorov1's videos maybe you might joy your son's videos.

Ps. You told me how beautiful it is now I understand. Beth

[skbnvacaville]

Fabulous. Thank you.

[etrax2000]

so many of their treasures wound up in the hands of the very same people the comies thought they were going to destroy. capitalista and jews.

[deeeEeEEEeEee33eem]

Peter opened da door to the west. Lenin closed it. Gorbachev reopened it. Putin closed it again.

Theres a difference....PETER n LENIN were actually SUCESSFUL n LIKED!

[AGirlsFashion]

is everything inthe pictures original ? like real artifacts in the pictures ? or is it just remade to look like the actual rooms?

[RomanovMartyrs]

@AGirlsFashion The rooms are not set up today as they were back then. These pieces are all artifacts of history, labeled by the museum as "European Architecture and Furniture," but make no claim to be Romanov-related. The only safe assumption is Nicholas's Gothic Library pieces.

[Splee331]

at 3:50, I love how he had that portrait of Marie on the wall :) It's very sweet.

[LaserBeam002]

The more I observe the crap that is taking place in america...my country....and more specifically Washington DC plus other capitals in the western world I am beginning to believe that a country might be better off with a King with limited power than an elected president or prime minister. After all they all lie their butts of just to get elected then owe nothing to the average people; only to those large contributors to their campaigns.

[kronyak007]

That was beautiful!

[jcrcarmo]

Watching this video backed by this beautiful song, makes me feel a feeling of such unfulfillable longing... Weird, cause I'm not Russian. so I wonder how the Russians feel about this whole thing...

[Elegarret]

I liked this video. You all have shown very good ... Thank you.

[Porcelainart1]

Thank you for sharing! It's very nice video! Have a nice day! Hajni

[tigranvartanovitch]

Thank you for this.

[BoborGlenn]

What is sad is that so many of these rooms, Alexandra's dressing room and bath for example were literally torn apart apart the revolution so that they look nothing like they did when N&A lived there. Much was destroyed out of spite after the revolution. I would like to know if the Tsar's swimming pool that he had installed in his bathroom is still there.

[RomanovMartyrs]

Did he have a pool in the Winter Palace bathroom? He had one in Alexander Palace, you can see that room in another of my videos. Unfortunately the pool does not exist anymore. They are doing restorations to the palace so maybe in the future they will recreate it? Thanks for the comment. :)

[Jal8919536]

What's the title of the song, please? Thanks. :)

[RomanovMartyrs]

It's Pelasta Maailma performed by Antti Tuisku. It's Finnish and means Save the World. :)

[IamHelenKeller]

How fascinating! Thanks for sharing.

[GrandDuchess518]

Beautiful and emotional!!!

[valery4vennes]

MY GOD!!!! I nearly missed few seconds of my heart beat. Such intense feelings with rivers of tears waiting to burst through the dam of my eyes. Suddenly the feeling of mixture with sorrow and joy grasp my emotions to realize that the once upon a home is now an open space to all, but not anymore to the souls which were forced to depart as they too must stand among the crowd to call it a museum.