Subsidiary structures of the Palace of Versailles pillaged during the Revolution. Napoléon I presented the Petit Trianon to his mother, Letizia Buonaparte – a purely symbolic gesture as she never lived there. Louis-Philippe, in his turn, presented it to his wife, Marie Amélie, who refurbished the gardens and reappointed the house. In more recent times, the Petit Trianon and the "Hameau de la reine" have been undergoing an aggressive restoration program that is seeking to return them to their state when Marie-Antoinette left them in October 1789. The Lanterne is the name given to a hunting lodge located at Versailles near the Ménagerie. As a vacation retreat
Small Throne Room of the Winter Palace the Tsar. Today, as part of the State Hermitage Museum, this room retains its original decoration. Notes Citations Bibliography Small Throne Room of the Winter Palace The Small Throne Room of the Winter Palace, St Petersburg, also known as the Peter the Great Memorial Hall, was created for Tsar Nicholas I in 1833, by the architect Auguste de Montferrand. Following a fire in 1837, in which most of the palace was destroyed, the room was recreated exactly as it had been before by the architect Vasily Stasov. Designed in a loose Baroque style, the throne is recessed in an apse