The State Museum-Reserve Tsarskoye Selo set a new record in the past summer season by the number of tourists.

According to the press service of the institution, from May to September, the palace and park ensemble was visited by 2, 4 million people - more than 230 thousand more than in the same period a year earlier . The museum's leading tourist information flow is connected primarily with the prolonged mode of work, thanks to which the guests of the Petersburg suburb could examine the decoration of the Catherine and Alexander Palaces before 8-9 pm . The temporary exhibitions ("Behind the Scenes of Parade Life .") played an important role in increasing the interest in Tsarskoe Selo Suppliers of the Imperial Court "and" Romanovs . From Tsarskoe Selo to Cincinnati "), as well as the Agate Rooms opened after the restoration work, the Hermitage Pavilion and the White Tower .

The museum is not going to stop at the reached: in the next season guests of the Tsarskoe Selo are waiting for new expositions and the opening of the museum "Russia in the Great War" in the building of the Ratny House (Alexandrovsky Park)

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