The interior of the Gold Drawing Room of the Winter Palace in mid 19 th century (1860s), painted by Russian architect and watercolorist Alexander Kolb (1819-1887), educated at Imperial Academy of Arts.
The opulent Gold Drawing Room within the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, was one of the rooms of the palace reconstructed following the fire of 1837 by the architect Alexander Briullov and refurbished for Tsaritsa Maria Alexandrovna by Andrei Stakenschneider.
The room's impressive scale stunning decor and meticulous attention to detail , which includes intricate heavy gilt mouldings for the ceiling and walls in a Byzantine style, a fireplace of marble and jasper with a mosaic by Etienne Moderni, gilded accents, and lavish furnishings exudes grandeur and luxury.
Today, as part of the State Hermitage Museum, this room retains its original decoration.
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