"One of the chandeliers will grace the Corner Drawing Room. It is a thirty-candle chandelier of ruby-coloured glass, originating from the historical collection of the Alexander Palace where a pair of them graced the later-demolished Concert Hall by Giacomo Quarenghi in the east wing. During the early twentieth-century renovations, one of the chandeliers was moved to Empress Alexandra’s Corner Drawing Room (it is now preserved at the Pavlovsk Museum). The second one was used to decorate the Mirror Study in Empress Catherine II's private rooms of in the Zubov Wing of the Catherine Palace. This elegant chandelier will return to the Alexander Palace. Its deep red glass parts will perfectly match the soft pink tint of the imitation marble walls, the polychrome carpet with terracotta main colours and the re-created pale coral window curtains in the Corner Drawing Room."
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