Winter Palace, which may be returned to the historic color

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Winter Palace, which may be returned to the historic color

St. Petersburg. May 29. INTERFAX.RU - Building the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg may be repainted a different color in 2013, when the time comes around it planned painting, said the chief architect of the Hermitage Valery Lukin.

According to him, by that time will be completed full restoration of the General Staff building.

Lukin believes that it is better to recreate the tone, which was conceived the project architect Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli building. The Winter Palace is seen as it was created by Rastrelli: the decision in light tones, with painting the walls a light sand color, white columns, white moldings, capitals and a soaring white sculpture on the roof of tin "-" Lukin said in an interview posted on the the official website of the museum.

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