It was here in 1762, the future empress secretly went to St. Petersburg to become Catherine II. It was built in 1759 next to the palace ” Monplaisir ” for all kinds of balls, tricks and masquerades. Accordingly, the domestic situation was appropriate level: nine rooms artfully decorated with decorative painting, stucco panels and reliefs. The case itself was a one-storey building, raised on a stone plinth, c large, almost the entire wall of windows. In 1930 it was turned into a...
A few kilometers after the entrance to the town of Pushkin guest meets zhёlkaya arch gate. They were built here back in 1830, when the city was much smaller. The elements of decoration gate used forms and motifs of art of ancient Egypt, for the period privchnye Egyptomania. Stone guardhouse gate narrowed to the top, in the upper part are arched moldings of cast iron, decorated with images of the sun disc, scarab beetles and snake heads. < br> On the eve of the Great Patriotic war, the gates...
Gulf of Finland, part of the Baltic Sea and the natural attraction of our city. Since the beginning of the 6th century it was great by sea, the bay lay part of the famous way ” from the Vikings to the Greeks ”. Later, the water area became a place of trade the Hanseatic merchants and the main means of income in Sweden. The Gulf of Finland is quite melokovoden, especially in its eastern part, which is also called ” Marquis puddle ” in honor of the Secretary of the Navy...
Chapelle -pavilion on the edge of the Alexander Pushkin city park that was built from 1825 to 1828 years structure is an artificial ruin made in the Gothic style. The main part of the construction, attracting attention, yavlyaetya square tower, connected by a wide arch on the other half-ruined tower. The windows Shapel earlier multicolored stained glass windows were installed that emit the Gothic style, and stained glass windows showing scenes from the Bible. Inside the pavilion were...
Chaliapin House Museum is another branch of the Museum of Theatre and Music The exhibition can be divided into two parts. One is dedicated to life and work of the famous singer (including his belongings and theatrical costumes) and the other shows the life of opera houses in XVIIIth to XXth century. The museum itself was opened in 1975 in the apartment where the singer lived the last years before the exile. After World War II all his property moved to the Theatre Museum and the apartment...
In the south-eastern outskirts of the Catherine Park erected monumental iron gates. Reason for their construction in 1817 is Russia’s victory in the Patriotic War of 1812. At the gates of the inscription – “Courtesy of my colleagues”, belonging to Emperor Alexander I. Of the three choices of materials – pudostskogo stone, granite and cast iron – the last project was approved. The appearance of the majestic structures, including four pairs of cast-iron Doric...