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Pavlovsk Palace ( Russian: Павловский дворец) is an 18th-century Russian Imperial residence built by the order of Catherine the Great for her son Grand Duke Paul, in Pavlovsk, within Saint Petersburg. After his death, it became the home of his widow, Maria Feodorovna.
Pavlovsk Palace. The centrepiece of the Pavlovsk ensemble is the Great Palace, a marvellous specimen of Russian Classicism of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It was built by Charles Cameron between 1782 and 1786.
Pavlovsk's Grand Palace is a superb neoclassical mansion that was once home to Emperor Paul. Explore the Grand Palace and other sights at the Imperial estate of Pavlovsk, near St. Petersburg.
The Pavlovsk Palace was built by the court architect of Catherine II, Charles Cameron, for Catherine’s son Paul. Catherine gave the lands along the Slavianka River, a mere three miles from her palace in Tsarskoe Selo, to her son Paul and his wife Maria Fedorovna upon the birth of their first son, the future Emperor Alexander I. The palace was ...
Imperial Estates. Pavlovsk is the youngest of the grand Imperial estates around St. Petersburg. Named in honour of Tsar Pavel, this fine neo-classical palace and its extensive landscaped gardens are stamped with his taste and even more so with that of his wife, the German-born Maria Feodorovna.
The center of the town is Pavlovsk Palace consisting of main body and wings connected with it by galleries. In front of the palace, welcoming the visitors stands bronze monument of Paul. It is an 1872 copy of the original cast by Giovanni Vitali.
The formation of the Pavlovsk complex took place during a momentous period in the history of Russia, marked by the glorious victories of the Russian armies under the generalship of Suvorov, Rumiantsev and Admiral Ushakov, and the crushing defeat of Napoleon in the Patriotic War of 1812; and its style rellects the spirit of the epoch.
