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# Russia's First Interior Finished in Artificial Marble: The Rooms of the Chinese Palace at Oranienbaum
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/pervyi-v-rossii-interer-otdelannyi-iskusstvennym-mramorom-zaly-kitaiskogo-dvortsa-v-oranienbaume/
- Published: 2018-11-16T11:55:48.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:44:17.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: NB!, Architecture, Monarchies, Heritage, Saint Petersburg

Russia's first interior finished in artificial marble: the rooms of the Chinese Palace at Oranienbaum. Of genuine marble here there are only the fireplace surrounds. The idea of such a scheme of decoration belonged to Catherine the Great