Catherine Palace
A façade over 300 m long with gilded atlantes; home of the Amber Room
- Author
- Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli
- Style
- Elizabethan Baroque — Rastrelli's lavish court Baroque: turquoise-and-white palaces with gilding on Russian soil
- Century
- 18th century
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