Malachite Room of the Winter Palace

The Malachite Room of the Winter Palace, St Petersburg, was designed in the late 1830s by the architect Alexander Briullov for use as a formal reception room for the Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna, wife of Nicholas I.

[2] It was here that Romanov brides were traditionally dressed by the Tsarina before proceeding from the adjoining Arabian Hall to their weddings in the Grand Church.

When the palace was stormed during the night of 7 November 1917, the members of the Government were arrested in the adjoining private dining room.

[4] Today, as part of the State Hermitage Museum, this room retains its original decoration.

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