#lower dacha

It's been a long time since I posted anything of my own, so I'll update you all.

Here are some projects I've worked on lately:

I built some houses (some are already available in the gallery) and I might make some more available here too. I'll make dedicated posts for each one, but here are some screenshots for a while.

I've also made some progress on the farmhouse, and I'll make it available here in a few days.

I also worked on this palace that I built 2 years ago, but I never finished the interiors, so I decided to change that. Here are some of the interiors that are already done (but not yet fully furnished).

I also built the exterior of an estate inspired by Chatsworth House.

And lastly, but certainly not least, I had to redo the interiors of the lower dacha. I had a problem with the game save and lost my work on the interior. I couldn't do much, but that's what we have for now. It will be a long project; I'm thinking of making the building without the interiors available in the gallery, in case someone has more patience (and time) than me.

Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna of Russia (Princess Nicholas of Greece and Denmark) with 1st cousin once removed Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia

OTMA enjoying their 1905 summer. The Romanov children frequently swam, waded, and relaxed on the beach of the Gulf of Finland right outside the Lower Dacha. Because the palace sat directly on the shoreline, the family treated the stone-and-sand beach as their private backyard. 

Other photos show OTMAA throughout the years sitting on the shoreline rocks, building sandcastles, and wading into the shallow coastal waters.

Tsar Nicholas II was highly active and also loved kayaking right off the Lower Dacha shore. He encouraged his children to be equally physically active, teaching them to row and paddle.

Tsar Nicholas, Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna, and Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich in Peterhof, 1898

Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna, Princess Irina Alexandrovna and Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna on the balcony of the Lower Dacha in Peterhof, spring - summer 1910.