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The Admiralty

Categories / Tsarskoe Selo and town of Pushkin. The digital chronological reference book/The Pantheon of military glory/Monuments dedicated to important events of the military history of Russia of the XVII - XIX centuries

A group of brick buildings under common name the Admiralty was built by architect V.I. Neelov on the bank of the Big Pond in 1773 – 1783.
All buildings were constructed in commemoration of integration of Russia and the Tauric Khanate.
A collection of sail-boats and rowboats of the “Tsarskoye Selo Fleet” including an Indian pirogue, a Chinese sampan, a Venetian gondola, an Aleutian kayak, and a gold-plated boat of Catherine II, was kept in the main building.
Banners were kept in the Holland Hall and 168 English etchings after watercolours of Tsarskoye Selo were placed on the walls. The Globe of Gottorf gifted to Peter I and brought in Russia in 1713 was put in the Holland Hall in 1901.
Currently the main building is used for holding temporary exhibitions. One of the Bird Lodges houses the Admiralty Restaurant.

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