The exhibition of the Alexander Palace shows two gilded carved chairs with a rolled back and seat, on four carved fluted legs, with the cubes decorated with rosettes. The backs of the chairs have a circular medallion beneath a crown, with stylized branches of palm and laurel going sideways.

The chairs come from the Corner Drawing Room of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna in the Alexander Palace. They were evacuated to Novosibirsk in1941, which is why they have been preserved and can be seen in their original place today. In 1902–1903 when the Concert Hall was converted into the Maple Drawing Room and the State Study, the Corner Drawing Room was joined to the corridor and became part of the Emperor’s private apartments, while retaining its ceremonial purpose.

According to archive documents, on June 1 1903, Empress Alexandra Feodorovna ordered:

The1917 inventories of the Alexander Palace include the following description of the furniture in the Corner Drawing Room:

According to a pre-war inventory of 1940, the Corner Drawing Room had 3 sofas, 10 armchairs and 10 chairs upholstered in “pink silk faille with white stripes, embroidered with garlands of small flowers.” The backs of the chairs were upholstered in the same material.

The upholstery has been repeatedly renewed throughout the “museum” life of the items. During the restoration of the chairs in 2021, the original upholstery was recreated, based on a preserved fragment of the upholstery manufactured in 1903 for the Corner Drawing Room furniture.