Travels Across Russia: Oranienbaum

Chinese Palace, view across pond. Color slide, 1998, copyright William Craft Brumfield

Chinese Palace. Mid-18th-century marble copy of Apollo Belvedere. Color slide, 1998, copyright William Craft Brumfield

Chinese Palace, main (south) facade. Mid-18th-century marble copy of Diana of Versailles (Artemis with a Doe). Color slide, 1997, copyright William Craft Brumfield

Chinese Palace, main (south) facade, central pediment. Color slide, 1997, copyright William Craft Brumfield

Chinese Palace, park (north) facade. Color slide, 1997, copyright William Craft Brumfield

Chinese Palace, Hall of the Muses (Picturesque Gallery). Ceiling painting: Triumph of Venus by Stefano Torelli. Color slide, 1997, copyright William Craft Brumfield

Chinese Palace, Hall of the Muses (Picturesque Gallery). Ceiling painting: Triumph of Venus by Stefano Torelli. Color slide, 1997, copyright William Craft Brumfield

Chinese Palace, Front Hall. East wall: 19th-century painting Landscape with Ruins. Color slide, 1997, copyright William Craft Brumfield

Chinese Palace, Front Hall. Ceiling painting: Apollo and the Arts by Stefano Torelli. Color slide, 1998, copyright William Craft Brumfield

Chinese Palace, Front Hall. 18th-century parquet floor (dark and light walnut, birch, applewood, pearwood, maple). Color slide, 1998, copyright William Craft Brumfield

Chinese Palace, Rose Drawing Room. Portraits of Jean Armand de L’Estocq (left) and Friedrich Wilhelm von Bergholz (right) by Georg Christoph Grooth. Color slide, 1998, copyright William Craft Brumfield

Chinese Palace, Rose Drawing Room. Ceiling painting: Diana and Aurora by Gaspare Diziani. Color slide, 1998, copyright William Craft Brumfield

Chinese Palace, Blue Drawing Room. Painting: Rest on the Flight into Egypt (Madonna with Partridges), copy after Anthony van Dyck and Paul de Vos by Alexander Beideman. Color slide, 1997, copyright William Craft Brumfield

Chinese Palace, Blue Drawing Room. Ceiling painting: Time Abducting Truth by Francesco Zugno. Color slide, 1998, copyright William Craft Brumfield

Chinese Palace, Glass Bead Room. Color slide, 1997, copyright William Craft Brumfield

Chinese Palace, Great Hall. Paintings: Abduction of Ganymede (left) and Juno (right) by Stefano Torelli. Color slide, 1997, copyright William Craft Brumfield

Chinese Palace, Great Hall. Painting: Juno by Stefano Torelli. Color slide, 1997, copyright William Craft Brumfield

Chinese Palace, Lilac Drawing Room. Paintings: Selene and Endymion (left) and Venus (above the door) by Stefano Torelli. Color slide, 1997, copyright William Craft Brumfield

Chinese Palace, Small Chinese Study. Color slide, 1998, copyright William Craft Brumfield

Chinese Palace, Small Chinese Study. Color slide, 1997, copyright William Craft Brumfield

Chinese Palace, Small Chinese Study. Painting: Fortification by Gaspare Diziani. Color slide, 1998, copyright William Craft Brumfield

Chinese Palace, Large Chinese Study. Color slide, 1997, copyright William Craft Brumfield

Chinese Palace, Large Chinese Study. Color slide, 1997, copyright William Craft Brumfield

Chinese Palace, Large Chinese Study. Ceiling painting: Union of Europe and Asia by Stefano Barozzi. Color slide, 1997, copyright William Craft Brumfield

Upper Park. Pond with view toward pergola. Color slide, 1998, copyright William Craft Brumfield

Upper Park. Mid-18th-century marble copy of Diana of Versailles (Artemis with a Doe). Color slide, 1997, copyright William Craft Brumfield

Upper Park. Canal. Color slide, 1997, copyright William Craft Brumfield

Upper Park. Stone bridge over canal. Color slide, 1997, copyright William Craft Brumfield

Upper Park. Pond with marble statue of Jonah (mid-18th-century copy after Lorenzetto). Color slide, 1997, copyright William Craft Brumfield