XVIII century elevator table, allowing hosts and guests to dine without the presence of servants in St. Petersburg, Russia.pic.twitter.com/7ZwHnNCmK5
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) October 14, 2024
One of the challenges of aristocratic life in Eighteenth Century Russia was the ongoing proletarian nature of the servants who made life comfortable. I mean, the lower classes are occasionally useful, but you don't want them actually around, right?
The Hermitage Pavilion in the Peterhof Palace complex in St. Petersburg displays a solution to this problem. Russia Travel Blog shares photos and a video of a technically complex table with built-in elevators to raise food from a lower floor directly into the table itself on the upper floor. Servants could move individual place settings as needed.
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Those dates don't seem quite right.
The best part of his tales where what they did in their down time. They were stationed in Cuba and at night would head up with a couple bottles of rum. Once they were in flight the pilot would put the plane into a slight bank and tie the control stick in place with rope. Then the pilot and mechanic would climb out on the wing, sit and drink rum while doing lazy circles over the ocean.
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