A Continued description of the rooms numbered in the picture above.

Apartments of Alexander II and Tsaritsa Maria Alexandrovna

This suite of rooms is at the centre and southern end of the private wing, overlooking the Admiralty and Palace Square. In the apartment of the Tsaritsa, originally rebuilt by Brullov, the hand of Andrei Stakenschneider is evident. His chief distinction was an ability to combine an eclectic mix of architectural styles, frequently combining Classical, Gothic and Oriental motifs in the same scheme. This is nowhere more obvious that in the suite created for Tsaritsa Maria Alexandrovna, where the Gold Drawing Room combines all of these motifs. Maria Alexandrovna used the Gold Drawing room as her state Drawing Room with her more private rooms beyond: the Crimson Drawing Room followed by her Boudoir, before the most private of her rooms, the bedroom. Her study, in a corner of the palace, by contrast with the preceding Gold Drawing Room was simply decorated having plain white walls adorned only with gilded sconces, and a vaulted ceiling broken onto palales by gilded moulding. By contrast again, the small boudoir beyond was in an ornate rococo revival style created by the architect Harald Bosse in 1853.

22) Crimson cabinet

The Crimson Cabinet, the study of Maria Alexandrovna, 1860

Empress Maria Fedorovna’s Cabinet

23) Crimson Boudoir

Crimson Boudoir

Crimson Room (The Boudoir), The Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia...

Good look at the flooring

The bedroom of Tsaritsa Maria Alexandrovna

The bedroom of Tsaritsa Maria Alexandrovna Luigi Premazzi Painting

Bedroom Duchess Maria Alexandrovna Edward Petrovich Hau Painting

The Dressing Room of Empress Maria Alexandrovna

the Winter Palace The Bathroom of Empress Maria Alexandrovna

24) Tsar's Study

Tsar Alexander II of Russia in his study

Until the assassination of Alexander II, this room was traditionally the Tsar's study, having been used for this purpose by both Alexander I and Nicholas I. Originally designed by Giacomo Quarenghi in 1791, the room contains a recessed alcove in the style of a Baroque state bedroom, indicative of its original use. Following the fire of 1837 it was redesigned by Alexander Brullov.