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ALEXANDROVSKY PARK (Pushkin), a landscape architecture monument, situated west of Ekaterininsky Park. The park is a part of Tsarskoe Selo palace and park ensemble. Alexandrovsky Park covers an area of 120 hectares ... | | ALEXANDROVSKY PARK (Pushkin), a landscape architecture monument, situated west of Ekaterininsky Park. The park is a part of Tsarskoe Selo palace and park ensemble. Alexandrovsky Park covers an area of 120 hectares. Its old regular part (the New Garden) was laid out in the 1750s (allegedly, by architects S.I. Chevakinsky, N. Girard); it is divided by Krestovy Canal into four squares with amusement tricks: scarpir (a round area with slopes), Chinese theatre (1778-79, architects A. Rinaldi, I.V. Neelov); Parnas hill and water maze. Over the canal, Krestovy, Kitaysky, Drakonov and other bridges were erected (built in the 1770s, architect Neelov). The complex of Chinese Village is situated south of the New Garden. The landscape park was established in the 1790s at the same time with the construction of Alexandrovsky Palace on the ground of the Menagerie of the period of Elizaveta Petrovna's reign (the fragments of bastions and canals setting its bounds remained to date). In the landscaped part of Alexandrovsky Park the artificial ponds were made: Detsky Pond (on the island there is a pavilion built for Emperor Nicholas I's children), Nizhny Pond, Vittolovsky Pond, and Lamsky. In the 1820s–30s according to the projects of architect A.A. Menelas, ornamental pavilions were built in various parts of the park. These included the White Tower (1821 - 27; destroyed during the Great Patriotic War, restored in the 1990s); the Arsenal (1819-34; built on the site of Mon bijou pavilion designed by architect S.I. Chevakinsky in 1747-54); Chapelle (Chapel; 1825–28) – neo-Gothic. Opposite the Chapelle, there are classical palace green-houses (1819-28). In the western part of Alexandrovsky Park flows the Kuzminka river, which has been dammed. Beside the river stands Lamsky Pavilion (1882), built for keeping lamas given to Emperor Alexander I (Nicholas II established a dark room here); and Pensionerskie Stables (1827-29), where emperors' horses were kept. North of Alexandrovsky Park, there are Feodorovsky Village, Ratnaya Chamber and other buildings in the neo-Russian style of the beginning of the 20th century. Reference: see Tsarskoe Selo. A. A. Alexeev.
Persons Alexander I, Emperor Chevakinsky Savva Ivanovich Elizaveta Petrovna, Empress Girard N. Menelas Adam Adamovich Neelov Ilya Vasilievich Nicholas I, Emperor Nicholas II, Emperor Rinaldi Antonio the Neelovs
| | | | hidden V.I. Neelov, I.V. Neelov, P.V. Neelov, architects | |
NEELOV family, a family of architects, representatives of early Neoclassicism and Romanticism. Vasily Ivanovich (1722-82), apprentice of S.I. Chevakinsky and M.G. Zemtsov; from 1744, worked with them and F.B ... | | NEELOV family, a family of architects, representatives of early Neoclassicism and Romanticism. Vasily Ivanovich (1722-82), apprentice of S.I. Chevakinsky and M.G. Zemtsov; from 1744, worked with them and F.B. Rastrelli at the Building Bureau in Tsarskoe Selo. From 1760, architect with the rank of Second Major. Impressed by English park landscaping, during his visit in 1770, designed the landscape part with romantic pavilions of Ekaterininsky Park: the Pyramid Pavilion (1770-71), the Neo-Gothic Admiralty and the Hermitage Kitchen (1774-76), the Chinese Small and Grand Caprices (1770-74, in collaboration with I. Gerard), the Marble (Palladium or Siberian) Bridge in the spirit of Palladio (1772-74). His sons, Ilya Vasilievich (1745-93), graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts (1770), following his study trip to Italy, where he was elected a member of the Bologna Academy, worked with his father in Tsarskoe Selo, as C. Cameron's assistant (from 1780); designed the Upper Bath and the Lower Bath Pavilions (late 1770s) and the Grand Ducal Wing of the Great Palace (1788-92, later Lyceum) emulating early Neoclassicism, the pseudo-gothic Babolovsky Palace and other. Author of the landscape part of Alexandrovsky Park; Peter Vasilievich (1749-1846), apprenticed to his father and J.-B.Vallin de la Mothe. In 1770-75, studied landscape architecture in England. From 1794, worked in Tsarskoe Selo, completing the existing park ensemble. Designed the Evening Hall (1796, subsequently rebuilt by L. Rusca). Reference: Васильев Б. Л. Архитекторы Нееловы // Зодчие Санкт-Петербурга, XVIII век. СПб., 1997. С. 879-900. T. A. Slavina.
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