# Königliches Landhaus

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Königliches Landhaus stands on Kapellenberg in Potsdam, Germany, as a building associated with architecture and royal history. Its log-house façade recalls German and Russian farm buildings.

The building originally housed the sexton of the nearby Russian Orthodox chapel of Saint Alexander Nevsky. Later, King Frederik William III used it as a royal residence. On the second floor, he hosted tea gatherings that sometimes brought together as many as forty people. The royal rooms had notably simple furnishings.

Their royal connections appeared in a Tula samovar and tableware and tea services from Berlin’s royal porcelain manufactory. A porcelain service combined painted gold, malachite, and rural scenes. The service was a gift from Emperor Nicholas I, while the samovar came from Tula and other services came from Berlin. A one-metre monument honours Tsar Alexander I.

Königliches Landhaus brings timber construction, royal rooms, Russian connections, and Potsdam’s Kapellenberg into one historical setting. Its details connect a modest house with royal life.

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