Here are Tsarskoe Selo's Top 5 achievements in 2021, which has been another tough year of pandemic restrictions.

A decrease in visitor numbers affected the Museum financially and became a challenge we had to overcome by offering new guided tours, family programmes, and special tours of our reserve collections and sites that are usually closed for visiting.

All these great efforts allow us to go on with the restoration projects of local and world importance.

TSARSKOE SELO's TOP 5 ACHIEVEMENTS OF 2021

1. Reopening of the Alexander Palace's east wing after a long restoration

2. Completed restoration of the Catherine Palace's Lyons Hall

3. Acquisition of Catherine I's lifetime portrait

4. Joint exhibition project with Russian and foreign museums
on the Mounted Escorts of Russia from the 16th century to the present day

5. Travelling exhibition project on Tsarskoe Selo's evacuation during WWII
and post-war restoration