The Toboggan Hill with a 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 Toboggan Hill with two slopes (they were not survived) was erected in 1754-1756 to the design of F.-B. Rastrelli. The third wooden slope was added by V.I. Neyelov in 1765. The engineering decision of the object was made by the famous inventor and scientist A.K. Nartov, a loyal supporter of Peter I. The Toboggan Hill was located between the Ramp Alley and the Grand Pond shore and it was an “entertaining” park construction. A Russian folk entertainment , tobogganing , was used for fun, but carriages were used instead of sledges. People rolled down in carriages on the metal rails laid on the slope to an island of the Grand Pond. Later in Oraniyenbaum the Toboggan Hill was constructed for Catherine II in accordance with the model of the Tsarskoye Selo one. The fancy Toboggan Hill Pavilion constructed by A. Rinaldi was survived until our days in Oraniyenbaum. In the 20th century toboggan hills of Russian parks were restored for life as side-show “American hills”. The Toboggan Hill of the Catherine Park was dismantled in 1792-1795. In 1809 L. Rusca constructed the Granite Terrace, which is now, on the place of the Toboggan Hill Pavilion. Semenova Galina Victorovna
Catherine II, Empress
Nartov Andrey Konstantinovich
Neelov Vasily Ivanovich
Rastrelli Francesco de
Rinaldi Antonio
Rusca Luigi (Aloisy Ivanovich)
Ekaterininsky Park/Pushkin, town