A room on the palace's ground floor, all the plaster stripped from the walls down to bare brick. Overhead, a row of heavy, pale yellow beams is visible — the floor structure above, not yet dismantled, propped up in a way that was certainly never part of the original 19th-century design. On either wall, bright arched window openings whose shape and finish differ from the rest of the brick wall — these are windows installed during the Soviet era. Opposite, in the wall, is a large, battered, rust-covered double metal door opening, likely once guarding some storeroom. The floor is littered with debris of brick and plaster.
This room is a good example of how hard it is to tell what in this wall is original and what is a later decade's layer. When the palace was adapted for the carpet factory's needs during the Soviet era (exhibit No. 19), not only the windows changed, but the floor structure itself — beams this heavy are needed to carry factory equipment, not a palace's living quarters. It will be up to the restorers to decide what to keep from these layers and what to remove, bringing the room closer to its original appearance.
As in the other exhibits in this series, the animation only shifts the camera barely perceptibly — the frame is already real and in colour, so no additional colouring is needed.