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The Cameron Gallery (an ensemble of the Catherine Palace)
The Cameron Gallery (an ensemble of the Catherine Palace)
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Tsarskoe Selo and town of Pushkin. The digital chronological reference book/Monuments of history and culture
The Cameron Gallery, called in honour of its builder, with the graceful colonnade formed by Ionic fluted columns and a spectacular terrace with bow-shaped stairs led into the park, is a part of the architectural complex of Cameron’s Thermae. The constructing was started in 1783 and finished in 1787. According to Cameron’s design the building was decorated with three bronze statue by the sculptor F.G. Gordeyev and the casting master V.B. Mozhalov. The colossal statues of Hercules of Farnese and Flora of Farnese were put up on pylons of the stairs. In a grotto under the stairs there was the statue of sleeping Ariadna (or Cleopatra as it was considered earlier). The massive ground floor was used for living ladies in waiting, the gallery on the first floor was intended for Catherine II’s walkings and looking round landscape views. Imaging the gallery as an entrance hall leading from tsar’s apartment to the park (or from the park into the palace), the Empress ordered to decorate the colonnade with busts of the ancient world heroes, Roman emperors and some of contemporaries. During walkings Catherine II often showed her portrait gallery to guests.
Authors
Semenova Galina Victorovna
Persons
Cameron Charles
Catherine II, Empress
Gordeev Fedor Gordeevich
Mozhalov, V.B.
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Sadovaya Street/Pushkin, town
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1793
May. Poem "Cupid and Psychea" of G.R.Derzhavin, adapted for the music by the court musician V.A. Pashkevich, in honour of the betrothal of Grand Duke Alexander Pavlovich with Grand Duchess Elizabeth Alekseyevna, Princess of Baden
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1935
August. A.N Tolstoy broke off his relations with N.V. Krandiyevskaya and she has gone to Leningrad with sons.
August. Detskoye Selo was visited by delegates of the 15th International Congress on Physiology, taken place In the Tauride Palace; I
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The 1780s
The improvement of the Catherine Park (the Old Garden) was continued. The Cameron Gallery, Agate Rooms (the Cold Bath), Upper Bath, Lower Bath, building of the Admiralty, Concert Hall, Hall on the Island and other park constructions were built
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The Kagul Obelisk
It is one of the first monuments of military glory erected in Tsarskoye Selo to commemorate the victory of the Russian army in the Russo-Turkish War of 1768 – 1774. The Russian army under the command of General P.A
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The Upper Bath pavilion (an ensemble of the Catherine Park)
This building with the early Classical style facades, originally named “the bathing place for members of the Imperial family”, was built in 1777-1779 by the architect I.V. Neyelov
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