Реконструкции Дворцовой площади / Reconstruction of Palace Square: 1932
Реконструкции Дворцовой площади
(пл. Урицкого) Ленинград 1932 год
Reconstruction of Palace Square
(Uritsky Square) Leningrad 1932
Music:
Excerpt from the Concerto for Violin & Orchestra by A. Khachaturian
In August 1932 a complex reconstruction of the Palace Square was carried out, during which asphalt was laid in place of the paving stones, lanterns were replaced near the column, the railings around the column were repaired, the facade of the palace painted and the gates to the Winter Palace Garden destroyed.
Instead of the original lanterns architect. K. Rachau installed spherical white globes.
They would be visible in photographs from 1932 to 1976. Before being replaced again by lamps in 1977