Grand Trianon Mansart; this wing, called "Trianon-sous-Bois", housed the Orléans family, including Louis XIV's legitimised daughter Françoise-Marie de Bourbon. The King's youngest grandson Charles de France and his wife Marie Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans also resided there. The Orléans family, who had apartments at the Palace of Versailles, were later replaced by Françoise-Marie's sister; the Duchess of Bourbon, "Madame la Duchesse" lived at the Trianon and later built the Palais Bourbon in Paris, the design of the palace being copied on that of the Trianon. In 1717, Peter the Great of Russia, who was studying the palace and gardens of Versailles, resided at
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