Imperial Parks Mariental and Babolovsky

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The "Mariental" Park is the second largest park in the city of Pavlovsk (Pushkinsky District of Saint Petersburg). It is located between Sadovaya Street, Krasnogo Kursanta Street, Mariinskaya Street, Elizavetinskaya Street, Hospital Street, and Prosveshcheniya Street. The park was laid out in the 1790s according to a design by architect C. Cameron. At the same time, the Mariental Palace (German: Marientahl — Maria's Valley) was built, named in honor of Maria Feodorovna, the wife of Russian Emperor Paul I. In 1798, a fortress called "BIP" was constructed on the site of the palace. Babolovsky Park is one of the five well-known parks in the city of Pushkin (along with Ekaterininsky, Alexandrovsky, Otdelny, Buffer Parks, and the once-existing Fermsky Park). The park is located between the southern part of the city of Pushkin and Aleksandrovskaya, northwest of Krasnoselskoe Highway in the city of Pushkin. The main attraction of the park is the Babolovsky Palace.

Babolovsky Palace

P85V+FW Pushkinsky District, Saint Petersburg, Russia

The existence of the Babolovsky Palace is owed to Catherine II, who in the spring of 1779 ordered the construction of a "curious wooden building" for her favorite, Prince Grigory Potemkin, on the shore of an artificial pond formed by damming the Kuzminka River.

Babolovsky Park

P9C8+36 Pushkinsky District, Saint Petersburg, Russia

"On both sides of the clearing stretches the magnificent and vast Babolovsky Park with meadows, groves, and endless roads for pedestrians, horseback riding, and carriages."

Pavel's Big Toy

Mariinskaya St., 4, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 196620

On December 19, 1796, Emperor Paul, having ascended the throne, issued a decree for the construction of a fortress on the site of the Marienthal Palace.

The three-flight staircase of Marienthal Park

Sadovaya St., 20, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 196621

The stone staircase from the treillage to the pond was built by V. Brenna in 1793; it had six marble statues on the side ledges and initially the same number of lions.

Obelisk in Marienthal Park

Sadovaya St., 20, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 196621

Pavlovskoye began to be built in 1777.