The Home of the Last Tsar - Romanov and Russian History

Rooms of Nicholas II - Tsar's Reception Room

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The Tsar's Inner Sanctum - Center of Imperial Rule

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Palace Tour

Gala Parade Halls
Restoration of the Palace
Rooms of Alexandra
Rooms of Nicholas II
The Children's Floor
Rooms of the Right Wing
Palace Park
The Imperial Garage
Imperial Dining
Plans, Maps and Churches
Imperial Yacht Standardt

Vestibule Mosaic of Constantine and Justinian

Everone when visits Hagia Sophia as a tourist today enters from the vestibule on the south side of the building.  Here was discovered a beautiful mosaic.

Church Fathers - Tympana of Hagia Sophia

On either side of the nave of Hagia Sophia are great tympana, most of the mosaics there have been lost, but a few fathers of the church survive

Memories of Aleksei Volkov
I Visit the Soviets by E. M. Delafield
Alexander Palace Book Finder