The Red (Turkish) Cascade (an ensemble of the Catherine Palace)

Categories / Tsarskoe Selo and town of Pushkin. The digital chronological reference book/Monuments of history and culture
The sign of the cascade is two round narrowed upwards Gothic towers with red brick facades. Lancet windows, narrow slit-embrasures, merlon parapets give to the cascade the appearance of the fortress construction. It is explaned the second name of the construction in the memory of victories in the Russo-Turkish War. Cascade was built in the 1770s to the design of the architect I.G. Gerard. The cascade included three small dams which did not make possible water to flow down the relief slope too quickly. Upstream of a channel from the Upper Ponds to the Swam Ponds, on the Ramp Alley, the Pudost Bridge or “merlon dam” was built, the “Moss-grown rock” or “Wild hill weir-bridge” was constructed above it using tofus and limestones. The landscape architectural decorative design and “silver rapids” of crystal-clear Taitsi water flown down steps of the dam did the Red Cascade one of the most impressive park constructions. Semenova Galina Victorovna
Gerard Ivan (Johann Konrad) Kondratievich
Ekaterininsky Park/Pushkin, town