Resident of Netherlands helped to return last tsar's tray to Tsarskoe Selo Museum

Photo credit: the press service of the Tsarskoye Selo Museum-Reserve

The tray, presented to the Russian Emperor Nicholas II by the Tambov nobility, will return to the exposition of the Tsarskoe Selo State Museum-Reserve. The rarity will be presented in the restored halls of the Alexander Palace, which will be open to visitors, the Rossiyskaya Gazeta newspaper reports.

Tatiana Burbik-Loman, a Dutch resident of the Netherlands, who is interested in the history of Russian art and follows the auctions, played a key role in the return of the historical object to the imperial residence. She discovered a unique dish by the inventory number, after which she contacted a resident of Tambov, Evgeny Skriptsov, and helped the museum acquire an item belonging to the last Russian emperor.

It is known that a walnut dish with silver inserts was presented to Nicholas II at the end of 1914, during his visit to Tambov. Probably, the rarity left the palace in the first decades of Soviet power.