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The construction of the Kadriorg Palace was started by Peter the The palace served as the main building of the Art Museum Great, Tsar of Russia, in 1718. It was named Kadriorg in honour of of Estonia in the 1920s, and again in 1946–1991. In the his wife Catherine I. The palace was designed by the Italian architect 1930s, it was the residence of the Head of State of the Nicola Michetti and its abundantly decorated main hall is one of the Estonian Republic. During that period, extensions to most exquisite examples of baroque architecture both in Estonia and palace were added – the banquet hall and orangery; many in northern Europe. Most of the Russian rulers visited the imperial rooms were redecorated. In 2000, the palace was opened summer residence. Great changes in the life and in the interior of the as the Kadriorg Art Museum. The permanent exhibition palace occurred in the fi rst half of the 19th century, when Tallinn, includes western European and Russian paintings, graphic which had become a fashionable holiday resort, was often visited by arts, sculpture and applied arts from the 16th to the 20th Nicholas I and his family. century.

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Unknown artist, after G. Ch. Grooth. Portrait of Empress Catherine I on Horseback. Mid-18th c. Art Museum of Estonia

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The story of the hunter Actaeon and and Square Hall Town on exists longer no weigh-house the 7) USE MUSEUM FLOOR PLANS FOR ORIENTATION Päts Konstantin 5) Diana, the goddess of the hunt, is

depicted on the ceiling of the Great Answers: Hall, the palace’s largest and most splendid room. Diana, the goddess of the hunt, loved to go swimming with her companions. One beautiful day, Journey to Noah’s Ark Actaeon happened to be hunting in the 9 DID YOU KNOW? Lambert de Hondt same forest. Walking around the forest, Initially, there was a black- Actaeon happened upon Diana swimming and-white stone tile floor in 2nd floor The painting depicts the Bible story of in the nude. This made Diana very angry the Great Hall of Kadriorg Noah, who was commanded by God to and she decided to use her special Palace. If you want to see build a ship to save his family and a pair powers to punish him. She changed the what the floor looked like originally, take a peek under 5 6 of animals from every species from the hunter into a deer. Actaeon’s hunting a stove. flood sent to punish humankind. dogs no longer recognised their master In the work, we do not see the ship, but the and started chasing him. journey toward it. The artist has depicted animals and birds from the world as it was known at that time. Official Portrait 2 Unlike today’s artists, Lambert de Hondt had not seen 2 all the animals and therefore some are not portrayed of Peter the Great correctly. One of them is even a fairytale animal! Unknown artist 1 Which animals are they? Look at the picture carefully. Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia, is an Solve these word games for clues. important man for Kadriorg Palace, because 1. OLIN he decided to build an imperial summer 2. ERHORCOSIN residence here in 1718. 3. COUNIRN In the official portrait, Peter the Great is wearing a splendid suit of armour, although armour was not worn in his day. The artist wants to tell us that Peter the Great was a great warrior. Boy with a Goose 3rd floor 8 Look at what is on the table and under the table. Jacob Gerritsz Cuyp On the table we see the royal orb, the sceptre and crown, which indicate that the man in the painting In the painting called Boy with a is the ruler. An eagle, which is the symbol of the Goose, the boy is holding a piece Russian state, is peering out from under the table. 4 9 of paper on which a sentence Do you see the sea and ships in the background? in French is written, along with This means that Peter thought it was very the artist’s name. The more important for his large empire to have a sea educated people of the day could border and a powerful navy. 3 7 understand the sentence. It can be 3 translated in three ways. Port of Tallinn. Morning DID YOU KNOW? What do you think the artist The pair of paintings called Alexey Bogolyubov meant? Boy with a Goose and Girl with a Rooster are versions Before becoming a painter, Alexey 8 of Boy Holding a Goose and 1. My goose does everything. Bogolyubov was a seaman. He Girl with an Egg Basket at 2. Money does everything. the world-famous Louvre travelled a lot and later, as a painter, DID YOU KNOW? 3. My eye does everything. Museum in Paris. painted many seascapes from The original dark blue wall paint has memory. Port of Tallinn. Morning is one been discovered and restored on Try it – move around in the room of those works. You can check to see the third floor of the seaside wing. and see if the boy with the goose if everything is depicted correctly, but and the girl with the rooster remember that many new buildings 6 follow you the entire time! have been built in Tallinn in the 5 meanwhile. Banqueting Hall Portrait of Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna 7 Can you tell from which direction the From 1929 to 1940, the palace served as the wind is blowing in the painting? Vasily Bovin after Christina Robertson Intarsia residence for the Estonian head of state. Grand Duchess 4 Initially, the palace had only one large formal Stove room, the Great Hall. But this became too Maria Nikolaevna was the daughter of The room that was once used small for the president’s formal receptions Nicholas I, Tsar of Russia. Maria had four as Konstantin Päts’s library is In addition to lovely paintings, and in the 1930s the Banqueting Hall was built brothers and two sisters, and they often visited the decorated with views of Tallinn’s sculptures and rooms, there are also as an extension of the palace. summer residence in Kadriorg. Old Town executed in the intarsia technique. Intarsia is a mosaic beautiful and interesting stoves in DID YOU KNOW? DID YOU KNOW? created of various pieces of Kadriorg Palace. Masters painted all The stoves in rulers’ palaces were Which Estonian president was in offi ce Look at the painting and try to guess what kind of DID YOU KNOW? Ordinary Estonian potatoes the stove tiles by hand and no two usually heated from hidden passages, when the Banqueting Hall was built? person Maria Nikolaevna was. coloured wood. There is a bomb shelter under and tomatoes are depicted tiles are identical. There are lots of but the stoves in Kadriorg Palace are Was she compassionate, but lazy and careless? the Banqueting Hall and Flower Lennart Meri on the ceiling of the interesting characters on the stoves. heated from the front. The reason is Or passionate and energetic? Or maybe she loved Do you know Tallinn well enough Garden, which was built at Kaarel Kadalipp Banqueting Hall, along with that the rulers only visited Kadriorg music and was courteous and polite to her friends? to be able to tell which building the time that Konstantin Päts Konstantin Päts exotic fruits. Find an animal like this on a stove. Palace in the summer, when the What do you think? no longer exists and which church transformed Kadriorg Palace What animal is it? stoves did not need to be heated. was not depicted by the artist? into the presidential residence.