Children’s House, a pavilion (an ensemble of the Alexander Park)

Categories / Tsarskoe Selo and town of Pushkin. The digital chronological reference book/Monuments of history and culture
A pavilion with the Late Classicism style facades was constructed in 1827-1830 to the design of V.M. Gornostayev . At first it was intended for summer pastime of children of Emperor Nicholas I: the Heir and Tsesarevich Alexander Nikolayevich, the future Emperor Alexander II, and Olga, Maria, Alexandra, three his sisters. A lounge, located in the center of the house, was used for joint games. Four small rooms, for the each of the children, were located on every lounge sides. Wooden partitions between rooms could be slid apart. Interiors with small children’s furniture were decorated with modeling, plafonds were covered with the fancy painting in Louis XIV style. Children’s House was located in the terrace of the artificial Children Island in the center of the Children’s Pond. Ferries carrying people to Children’s House went across the pond between granite piers. The house and island were the favourite place for games of children of Alexander III and Nicholas II . There was an original “children’s ground” with the landscape planning, toys and garden tools, a ”cape of kind Sasha”, a grove, planted by emperor’s children, marble busts of teachers of Alexander II, the poet V.A. Zhukovsky and K.K. Merder. Semenova Galina Victorovna
Alexander II, Emperor
Alexander III, Emperor
Alexandra Nikolaevna, Grand Princess
Gornostaev Vasily Maximovich
Maria Nikolaevna, Grand Princess
Nicholas II, Emperor
Olga Nikolaevna, Grand Princess, Queen
Zhukovsky Vasily Andreevich
Zhukovsky Vasily Andreevich
Dvortsovaya Street/Pushkin, town Александровский парк