The Llama Pavilion (an ensemble of the Alexander Park)

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In 1820-1822 the architect A. Menelaws built the Llama Pavilion, where llamas brought to Alexander I, apparently from Peru, were placed. In the closed courtyard there was a stable, small manège for animals and fodder store as far as accommodation for keepers. The eight-sazhen-high (sixteen-metre-high) tower towers above it. Richly decorated apartment for resting with the Empire style furniture was contained in the tower. The room walls were decorated with coloured etchings with views of Central and South America. “Using llamas for work by Peruvian” was the plot of etchings. In 1860 the architect I. Monighetti built two-story wing here for use as a photographic laboratory and since then the pavilion has been named as “Photpgraphy”. In 1907 mountain fallow-deer, brought by Colonel Zhukovsky from southern Mongolia, were kept in the manege. Semenova Galina Victorovna
Alexander I, Emperor
Menelas Adam Adamovich
Monighetti Ippolito Antonovich
Zhukovsky
Dvortsovaya Street/Pushkin, town Александровский парк