The Lower Bath pavilion (an ensemble of the Catherine Park)

Categories / Tsarskoe Selo and town of Pushkin. The digital chronological reference book/Monuments of history and culture
The original name of the pavilion is Cavaliers’ Wash-house. It was also built by the architect I.V. Neyelov in 1778-1779 and it was used as a bath for the court. The building is placed in a part on the terrace of the Lower Garden. Its layout is peculiar and it determines its architectural decision. The round hall, placed higher then other rooms, with the dome on the windowed drum, is surrounded by ten rooms (six round rooms and four rectangular ones). In the central hall there was a copper tin-plated bath-indoor pool for bathing. Around the hall there was a cloakroom, sweating-room, bath-rooms heated with fireplaces. Water was heated up in two water boilers and pumped over pipes for washing. Rooms were lighted up through windows-lucarnes made in the top part of plain walls. Walls and plafonds of the rooms were painted, but the painting was not survived until our days. In 2011 in the pavilion the pull was reconstructed and an exhibition, reproducing the historical situation, was organized. The exhibition is opened for visiting in summer season. Semenova Galina Victorovna
Neelov Ilya Vasilievich
Ekaterininsky Park/Pushkin, town