Ratnaya Palata information

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Martial Chamber
Ратная палата
Ratnaya Palata in Tsarskoye Selo
Alternative names	Государева Ратная палата (The Sovereign's Martial Chamber)
General information
Status	Russia's Cultural Heritage Item, used as a museum
Architectural style	Russian Revival architecture
Location	Pushkin, Saint Petersburg
Address	5 Fermskaya doroga, Pushkin, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Country	Russia
Coordinates	59°43′31.4″N 30°23′10.63″E / 59.725389°N 30.3862861°E / 59.725389; 30.3862861
Groundbreaking	1913
Design and construction
Architect(s)	Semyon Sidorchuk [ru][1](bio in English)
Website
Martial Chamber Website

Ratnaya Palata (Russian: Ратная палата /rAht-naya pah-LAh-tah/ "Martial Chamber"^[1]) is Russia's World War I museum^[2] building in Pushkin town near Saint Petersburg, Russia. Designed for Romanov royal dynasty's 300th anniversary in Russian Revival architecture style together with the buildings of the church campus of the Sovereign's Cathedral of the Icon of Our Lady of Saint Theodore and the private royal railway terminal. Suggested, not long before World War I, to be built as a museum of Russian war history,^[1] based on Elena Tretyakova's collection gift, the exhibition content, when the war was already under way in 1915,^[1] was focused by Emperor Nicholas II on then current heroic deeds of Russian warriors, but the display, at first shown in the St Petersburg Admiralty building,^[1] opened in Martial Chamber for only a short time before the end of Russian Empire in February 1917,^[3] and was closed down a year later^[3] by Soviet authorities. Having been used after that for unrelated purposes,^[4] the Martial Chamber building was legally transferred to the Tsarskoye Selo Museum complex in 2008^[1] and was cleared, restored, given a new collection of exhibits and reopened as modern Russia's first museum of World War I^[2] by the centennial of its beginning in August 2014.^[1] The exhibition is titled "Russia in the Great War [ru]" after a name for the war used at the time of its battles.^[1]