During her life Anna Pavlovna grew up and lived in, stayed at and visited many palaces. For the first phase of our project, we chose 7 palaces that are still important, 3 in the Netherlands and 4 in Russia.
In the Netherlands we chose
– Paleis Kneuterdijk in the Hague, where she lived with her husband William II during their reign;
– Paleis Soestdijk, which she reshaped after Pavlovsk Palace. It contains the famous Waterloo paining in a room she dedicated to her husband;
– Paleis Het Loo, the first palace in the Netherlands that she visited and still one of the main royal palaces in the Netherlands.
In Russia we chose
– Pavlovsk Palace, where she mainly grew up. The influence of her mother is important here;
– Gatchina Palace, where she lived from 1795 to the death of her father tsar Paul I in 1801 and her brother tsar Nikolas I also lived; she returned to this palace more than once;
– Tsarskoe Selo, this summer palace vibrates the influence of her grandmother, Catherine the Great;
– Peterhof, the palace that her grand grandfather built and where many cultural exchanges took place between Russian and Dutch people throughout the centuries.
home in two cultures
