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  • Pavlovsk Railway Station

    Concert hall at the railway station in Pavlovsk. Built by François Rusca and Heinrich Stackenschneider (1836–44). Russian and foreign performers gave musical concerts there in summer (from 1838).

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  • Mon Bijou Pavilion (Menagerie)

    A menagerie was founded in Tsarskoe Selo (1715). The neglected territory (1730s) was gradually transformed into a new regular garden (1740s). Savva Chevakinsky planned a hunting pavilion at the centre...

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  • Hermitage Pavilion

    The Hermitage park ensemble at Tsarskoe Selo was planned by Mikhail Zemtsov. Construction was headed by Savva Chevakinsky (1744–49). The pavilion was reconstructed by Bartolomeo Francesco Rastrelli (...

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  • Admiralty Pavilion

    Built by Vasily Neyelov on the bank of the Large Pond in Tsarskoe Selo (1773). Decorated inside (1774–75). Included three pavilions. The central pavilion was known as the Sloop Barn and used to store ...

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  • Pavlovsk

    Palace-park ensemble created over fifty years on the banks of the River Slavyanka in Pavlovsk. One of the largest landscape parks in Europe. Catherine the Great presented four hundred hectares of land...

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  • Gatchina Palace

    Gatchina farmstead originally belonged to Peter the Great. He presented it to his sister Natalia. Two-story wooden house built for her on the shores of the White Lake was dismantled during constructio...

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  • Catherine Palace

    The Catherine Palace was named after the wife of Peter the Great, Catherine I, who had a summer residence at “Saary Muis,” an estate sixteen miles south of St Petersburg. The first “stone chambers of...

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  • Alexander Palace

    Built by Giacomo Quarenghi (1792–96) at the request of Catherine the Great as a wedding present for her eldest grandson, the future Tsar Alexander I, who married Princess Luise of Baden (1793). After ...

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