Russian Princesses

The 'Pink Living Room' at the Lower Dacha

The first of the reception rooms accessed from the main staircase was Alexandra Feodorovna's Pink Drawing Room, designed in the Art Nouveau style.

The room was furnished by F.F. Meltzer in the early 1900s. The walls were paneled in ivory white enamel, topped with striped wallpaper featuring a delicate floral pattern of roses. The white lacquered furniture was upholstered in cretonne fabric adorned with large red roses and green leaves scattered across the field. The motif of roses and their crimson hue was echoed throughout the space: carved roses decorated the furniture, one table was covered with a pink cloth, while another bore a cloth with a wreath of vibrant red roses encased in glass.

The furniture shapes were simple, either rectangular or with slightly oval lines. A corner sofa, built into a niche, formed a seamless unit with the wall. The outline of the niche was repeated by a two-tiered trellis mirror mounted on the shelf of the sofa back, where crystal vases of Russian and Venetian workmanship, as well as Danish and Russian porcelain from the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the characteristic Art Nouveau style, were displayed.

An intriguing bronze lamp with a rod in the form of a stylized water lily, featuring whimsically curved stems and exquisite leaves and flower buds, added to the room's charm.

Among the paintings and watercolors, which primarily depicted battle scenes, a portrait of Alexandra Feodorovna painted by the amateur artist Captain Shipov and three photographic portraits of Tsarevich Alexey stood out.

The living room was graced with a delicate pistachio-colored carpet with a checkered pattern.

On the wall to the left hung a portrait of Alexandra Feodorovna wearing a kokoshnik and Russian dress, created by Captain P. Shipov in 1902.

Tatiana “Queen of side-eyes” Nikolaevna Romanova

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