Visit to palace and Park in Pavlovsk

It is a superb and park ensemble of the late XVIII-beginning of the centuries, which was used as a summer residence of the Russian emperor Paul I and his family. The landscape park with different pavilions covers the area of 600 ha. The formation of the collections of the Pavlovsky Palace was closely connected with the trip of its owners over Europe . Paul I and his wife visited workshops of well-known artists, ordering and acquiring paintings, furniture, bronze articles, silk fabrics, china sets, etc. They brought to Russia large number of antique sculptures from Italy , as well as gifts from European royal courts. And now all these are exhibited in the halls of the Palace.