And here you will find a paradise earth!

The words of this title were written by Fyodor Glinka, who two hundred years ago in the "Council of traveling from St. Petersburg" wrote:

"Jumping from 26 vents shumnyya capital,
Through the flat edge and sad,
Seeing suddenly gardens, ponds, palaces of the Queen - Here Pavlovsk: Stop, and then you will find a paradise earth! »

In real life, a little prozaichney- 20 minutes by train from pl.Kupchino we arrived. For many the question arises - where, what kind of Pavlovsk? Indeed, this place is not as popular as the Peterhof or Tsarskoye Selo, but deserved it? Let's see.
To begin with, a little help:
Pavlovsk Park - an outstanding work of landscape art of the end of XVIII - the first quarter of the XIX century. In place of the regular park with a clear geometric layout and architectural clipping trees and shrubs have new gardens. When their device parkostroiteli tried to get as close to nature. Pavlovsk Park has become one of the largest Russian and European parks in the area of ​​543 hectares. Feature Pavlovsk that of him for nearly half a century took care of the same owner - Empress Maria Feodorovna. It worked outstanding artists of his time, coming from both the British and Italian schools of park construction - Cameron, Brenna, P. Gonzaga.

If you are not afraid of amateur photos, look more (39 pictures)

Railway station. When there was a restaurant, a garden with a fountain and conducted by Strauss himself.





Entrance to the park



And as without nuts? So proteins are! Maybe ...



This area of ​​the park is called the "Great Star" - straight roads, similar to the forest glade.



5. Twelve Roads radiate from a central circular area and intersected several cross roads that make up the design stars that gave the name to the area.

Despite the fact that the layout of the road network has been a regular, ie kept geometrically regular pattern, the area does not lose appearance of natural forest, and keep reminding yourself alley forest glade.

Work on the establishment of the area Big stars were within ten years. Hundreds of serfs to cut a clearing alleys, dried swampy areas of the forest, laid sod on the roads and cased their bushes



6. River valley. Slavyanka



7. Pay attention to the change of the landscape



8.Rayon that runs through the park and includes both banks of the river, which flows from the southern part of the park Pridvortsovy north to the villages of New Glazovo and Vesey.

The district occupies one-seventh of the park, that is, 85 hectares.

Work on its planning and construction took place in the course of twenty-five years, from 1777 to 1803.

In creating the landscape of the valley of the Slavyanka attended almost all of the major builders of the architectural ensemble of Pavlovsk; Among them are the architects Charles Cameron, Brenna, AN Voronikhin and KI Rossi, as well as the artist P. Gonzaga.



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14. In this area is the Grand Palace. To the east, it leads to the Triple linden alley, which is adjacent to the site and Privolerny large circle. In southeastern facade of the palace is the Private Garden.
Unlike other areas of the park landscape, all of these sites have a regular layout; proximity to the palace is largely determined their original appearance.



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19. Palace is a compositional center of the whole Pridvortsovy part of the park and is far visible from the adjacent park areas. Wherever you are in the park, there are always roads, clearings or wide gaps between trees that allow you to see the palace from a distance. Sometimes one can see only the top part of the building with its dome light, sometimes visible part of a facade (different each time).



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29. Moving away from ponds, met with a squirrel



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31 Not udivitelno- in this area of ​​the park (Circle White Birch) - forests, fields, and very few people (especially for Saturday)



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33. More photos budut- not break!
Returning stumbled upon such a family))



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37 Tired but happy we got to the door, but on the other hand noticed tray orehami- live advertising.

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Thank you for your interest. On the subject of recommended sites:
pavlovsk-spb.ru/glavnaya.html
www.pavlovskmuseum.ru/



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