The Palace-and-park ensemble Pavlovsk.
This is superb palace-and-park ensemble of the late XVIII - begining of the
XIX centuries which was used as a summer residence of the Russian emperor Paul 1
and his family. The landscape park, one of the largest in Europe, covers the
area of 600 ha. The works on the palace-and-park ensemble on the winding banks
of the Slavyanka river lasted for 50 years.
Architects: Ch. Cameron, V. Brenna, G. Guarenghi, A. Voronikhin, C. Rossi,
sculptors M. Kozlovsky, I. Martos, I. Prokofiev, F. Gordeyev, G.
Demut-Malinovsky. The formation of the collections of the Pavlovsky Palace was
closely connected with the trip of its owners over Europe in 1781-1782. They
visited workshops of well-known artists, ordering and acquiring paintings,
furniture, bronzea articles, silk fabrics, china sets etc. They brought to
Russia a large number of antique sculptures from Italy, as well as gifts from
Europesn royal courts.
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