29 Facts About Pavlovsk Palace

Pavlovsk Palace 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.

Pavlovsk Palace had finished entry vestibule and the five rooms of the private apartments.

Pavlovsk Palace created the white and gold Halls of War and Peace, on either side of the Greek Hall by Cameron, which had a colonnade of green false marble columns, resembling a Greek temple.

Pavlovsk Palace made the Italian hall into a replica of a Roman temple, and he built the State Bedroom for Maria Feodorovna as an imitation of the state bedroom of the King of France, with a huge gilded bed, and cream silk wallpaper painted in tempura with colorful flowers, fruit, musical instruments and gardening tools.

Pavlovsk Palace decided to enlarge Pavlovsk into a palace suitable for a royal residence, adding two new wings on either side of the main building, and a church attached to the south wing.

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Pavlovsk Palace alienated the nobles, and became increasingly fearful of conspiracies.

Pavlovsk Palace's fears were justified; the Emperor Paul was murdered by members of his court in 1801, and his son Alexander became Emperor.

Pavlovsk Palace became the residence of the Empress Maria Feodorovna, the mother of both Emperor Alexander I of Russia and Emperor Nicholas I of Russia.

Pavlovsk Palace's turned the house into a memorial to her murdered husband, filled with his furniture and portraits, and made the house a showcase for finest 18th-century French furnishings, paintings, sculpture and porcelain.

Pavlovsk Palace's employed a Russian architect, Andrei Voronykhin, who had been born a serf, and was trained in decoration and design, who rose to become the architect of Kazan Cathedral in St Petersburg.

Pavlovsk Palace brought back the architect Quarenghi, who had redecorated five rooms on the main floor, to recreate his work.

Pavlovsk Palace installed French doors and large windows in the apartment, so the flower garden outside seemed to be part of the interior.

Pavlovsk Palace designed the Corner Salon, where Maria Feodorovna received guests such as the first American Ambassador to Russia, John Quincy Adams, and the Lavender Room, whose walls were made of lilac-colored false marble, matching the lilac flowers outside the windows.

Pavlovsk Palace's left the house to her younger son, Michael, and specified that none of the furniture should be taken away.

Pavlovsk Palace returned to the Palace and found that a group of revolutionary sailors had searched the Palace for weapons and taken a few sabers, but otherwise everything was in its place.

Pavlovsk Palace hired former soldiers to guard the house, put all the furniture into the main building, made an inventory of all the treasures in the Palace, and successfully resisted demands from various revolutionary committees for dishes, chairs, tables, and all the books from the library.

Pavlovsk Palace was able to persuade Lunacharsky himself to come to Pavlovsk.

The main building of the Pavlovsk Palace was a hollow shell, without a roof or floors.

In 1955, the restoration of the facade of the Pavlovsk Palace was completed, and restoration of the interiors began.

In forty rooms of the Pavlovsk Palace, painted decoration on the walls and ceilings had to be precisely recreated in the original colors and designs.

In 1957, thirteen years after the Pavlovsk Palace had been burned, the first seven rooms were opened to the public.

Pavlovsk Palace Park was conceived by Cameron as a classic English landscape garden, an idealized landscape filled with picturesque pieces of classical architecture, designed to surprise and please the viewer.

The gallery of Pavlovsk Palace has twelve landscape paintings by Hubert Robert that were commissioned by Maria Feodorovna.

Cameron laid out a triple alley of five straight rows of Linden trees, imported from Lubeck, in a long axis from the courtyard of the Pavlovsk Palace, leading to a small semi-circular place in the forest.

Pavlovsk Palace's imported flowers from Holland for her garden, including hyacinth, tulips, daffodils and narcissus.

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Pavlovsk Palace laid out paths and changed contours to create the effects he wanted, using open and closed spaces and different colors and shapes of trees to make theatrical scenes.

Pavlovsk Palace made dramatic use of the contrast between the white bark and light leaves of birch trees and the dark needles of red-brown trunks of pine trees, setting groups of birch trees in front of dark backgrounds of pines.

Pavlovsk Palace made decorative use of the different seasons in the park, painting scenes with brilliant colors of the autumn leaves.

Gonzago Gallery is a unique architectural and fresco ensemble in the Pavlovsk Palace, created by the Italian decorator, architect and art theorist Pietro di Gottardo Gonzago in the early 19th century.