Page 37 - (DK Eyewitness) Top 10 Travel Guide - St. Petersburg

Pavlovsk ❮❮ 35

A SCOTTISH
ARCHITECT IN
RUSSIA
Having read Charles
Cameron’s book about
Roman public baths,
Catherine the Great
invited the archi tect to
Russia to work on the
Cameron’s
The Apollo
6 8 reconstruction of her
summer palace at
Colonnade
Dairy
This grace ful colonnade Important visitors to Tsarskoe Selo (see
pp32–3). Pleased with
(above) encircles a copy the estate were invited his work, she “lent” him
of the Apollo Belvedere. to this working dairy, to her son, then Grand
Fo l low ing a storm in 1817, a small build ing with a Duke Paul, to work on
an iron Apollo re plac ed thatch ed roof, to sample the Pavlovsk estate.
the bronze original. simple peasant fare.
Temple of
0
Friendship
This Doric temple (1780)
(below), dedicated to
Catherine the Great, is
the earliest ex am ple of
Greek forms in Russia.

Cold Baths
Paul’s
7 9
Mausoleum
This austere
pavilion was constructed Despite the name, and
by Cameron in 1799 as construction in the form
a summer swimming of an ancient Roman
pool. It had an elegant temple, it never held
vestibule, paintings, Paul I’s remains. It bears
furniture and rich the inscription “To my
wall upholstery. be neficent consort”.
NEED TO KNOW Park: 6am–midnight daily. stations, then take bus 370,
MAP H2 • 30 km (19 miles) Adm: adults ₽500, children 383, 493, K-286 or K-299.
S of St Petersburg • 452 ₽200 (for palace and park); • One of the pleasures of
1536 • www.pavlovsk adults ₽100, children ₽50 Pavlovsk is strolling through
museum.ru (for park only May–Oct & its romantic grounds, so be
10am–6pm Sat, Sun, sure to pay a visit when
Palace: 15 May–15 Sep: public hols Nov–Apr; the weather is fine.
10am–5pm; 16 Sep–14 free all other times). • There are restaurants
May: 10am–5pm Sat–Thu. Take the train from in the Great Hall of the
Closed 1st Mon of month. Vitebskiy or Kupchino Pavlovsk Palace.

034-035_Top_10_St-Petersburg.indd 35 10/10/2016 11:59