Catherine the Great's amazing peacock clock at the State Hermitage

Museum Secrets by Kensington Communications

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What do you get for the woman who has everything? This webisode is associated with our full episode Inside the State Hermitage Museum. The State Hermitage is the place where Catherine the Great hosted her private dinner parties and met eligible bachelors.
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@BalletBabyBoy 3 года назад

I was there and saw it come alive by chance...divine

@Nancy-it8uc 9 месяцев назад

Lovely!! ❤

@moisepicard5883 6 лет назад

CATHERINE THE GREAT WAS AN EMPRESS. SHE WAS BEYOND A QUEEN.

@gaiuscoleman8815 7 лет назад

One of the best demos yet and with some of the history to it all too. Thank you.

@zachariahgerardo1609 2 года назад

instablaster

@jenp.9975 Месяц назад

Wow 🤩

@mikeross641 10 лет назад

Catherine the Great was not a "Queen". She was an Empress and Tsaritsa.

@tootsla1252 6 лет назад

Fabulous!

@davidjacobs8558 5 лет назад

My junior high school had two peacocks (not sure how they got them, but they had them along with dozen white doves) in pretty large cage. and they spread their tails probably three, four times daily for no good reason. when they spread their tails, they shake their tails (more of vibration) for couple of seconds, for some odd reason.

@moisepicard5883 6 лет назад

THE RUSSIANS WERE AND STILL ARE THE MOST CREATIVE PEOPLE IN HISTORY.

@BAHES 5 лет назад

Clock was crafted by James Cock, british master.

@davidjacobs8558 5 лет назад

Automaton were big thing among the nobility back then, and most are made by French and British, not Russians.

@vanechkapark 4 года назад

@@davidjacobs8558 also Katherine the second is a german lady.

@RIXRADvidz 5 лет назад

okay, this is how bad this is, 00:53, talking about having 'secret dinners' in the Little Hermitage while showing the Amber Room at Catherine Palace some many miles away.

@MiceAndMinecraft 7 лет назад

You say it was made by an English craftsman, considering the similarities of design and concept, has it been confirmed it was the work of the same craftsman who built the mechanical silver swan in the Bowes Museum in County Durham, North East England?

@RollaArtis 7 лет назад

Not exactly confirmed, but as the mechanics are similar it can be assumed that both Peacock and Swan were built for James Cox by the Flemish mechanician J.J. Merlin. The Swan was originally housed in the same kind of magnificent glazed structure as the Peacock (and with mirrors), but was 'reduced' somewhat in the 19th century in order to make it easier to move around on exhibition. So what remains is only part of the original ensemble.