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Travels Across Russia: Oranienbaum

Chinese Palace, view across pond. Color slide, 1998, copyright William Craft Brumfield

Chinese Palace, view across pond. Color slide, 1998, copyright William Craft Brumfield

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Chinese Palace. Mid-18th-century marble copy of Apollo Belvedere. Color slide, 1998, copyright William Craft Brumfield

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Chinese Palace, main (south) facade. Mid-18th-century marble copy of Diana of Versailles (Artemis with a Doe). Color slide, 1997, copyright William Craft Brumfield

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Chinese Palace, main (south) facade, central pediment. Color slide, 1997, copyright William Craft Brumfield

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Chinese Palace, park (north) facade. Color slide, 1997, copyright William Craft Brumfield

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Chinese Palace, Hall of the Muses (Picturesque Gallery). Ceiling painting: Triumph of Venus by Stefano Torelli. Color slide, 1997, copyright William Craft Brumfield

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Chinese Palace, Hall of the Muses (Picturesque Gallery). Ceiling painting: Triumph of Venus by Stefano Torelli. Color slide, 1997, copyright William Craft Brumfield

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Chinese Palace, Front Hall. East wall: 19th-century painting Landscape with Ruins. Color slide, 1997, copyright William Craft Brumfield

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Chinese Palace, Front Hall. Ceiling painting: Apollo and the Arts by Stefano Torelli. Color slide, 1998, copyright William Craft Brumfield

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Chinese Palace, Front Hall. 18th-century parquet floor (dark and light walnut, birch, applewood, pearwood, maple). Color slide, 1998, copyright William Craft Brumfield

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Chinese Palace, Rose Drawing Room. Portraits of Jean Armand de L’Estocq (left) and Friedrich Wilhelm von Bergholz (right) by Georg Christoph Grooth. Color slide, 1998, copyright William Craft Brumfield

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Chinese Palace, Rose Drawing Room. Ceiling painting: Diana and Aurora by Gaspare Diziani. Color slide, 1998, copyright William Craft Brumfield

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Chinese Palace, Blue Drawing Room. Painting: Rest on the Flight into Egypt (Madonna with Partridges), copy after Anthony van Dyck and Paul de Vos by Alexander Beideman. Color slide, 1997, copyright William Craft Brumfield

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Chinese Palace, Blue Drawing Room. Ceiling painting: Time Abducting Truth by Francesco Zugno. Color slide, 1998, copyright William Craft Brumfield

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Chinese Palace, Glass Bead Room. Color slide, 1997, copyright William Craft Brumfield

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Chinese Palace, Great Hall. Paintings: Abduction of Ganymede (left) and Juno (right) by Stefano Torelli. Color slide, 1997, copyright William Craft Brumfield

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Chinese Palace, Great Hall. Painting: Juno by Stefano Torelli. Color slide, 1997, copyright William Craft Brumfield

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Chinese Palace, Lilac Drawing Room. Paintings: Selene and Endymion (left) and Venus (above the door) by Stefano Torelli. Color slide, 1997, copyright William Craft Brumfield

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Chinese Palace, Small Chinese Study. Color slide, 1998, copyright William Craft Brumfield

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Chinese Palace, Small Chinese Study. Color slide, 1997, copyright William Craft Brumfield

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Chinese Palace, Small Chinese Study. Painting: Fortification by Gaspare Diziani. Color slide, 1998, copyright William Craft Brumfield

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Chinese Palace, Large Chinese Study. Color slide, 1997, copyright William Craft Brumfield

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Chinese Palace, Large Chinese Study. Color slide, 1997, copyright William Craft Brumfield

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Chinese Palace, Large Chinese Study. Ceiling painting: Union of Europe and Asia by Stefano Barozzi. Color slide, 1997, copyright William Craft Brumfield

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Upper Park. Pond with view toward pergola. Color slide, 1998, copyright William Craft Brumfield

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Upper Park. Mid-18th-century marble copy of Diana of Versailles (Artemis with a Doe). Color slide, 1997, copyright William Craft Brumfield

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Upper Park. Canal. Color slide, 1997, copyright William Craft Brumfield

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Upper Park. Stone bridge over canal. Color slide, 1997, copyright William Craft Brumfield

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Upper Park. Pond with marble statue of Jonah (mid-18th-century copy after Lorenzetto). Color slide, 1997, copyright William Craft Brumfield

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