Novo-Sadovaya St., 50, Saint Petersburg, Leningrad Region, Russia, 196625
Red Valley is the name of one of the remote areas of Pavlovsk Park. In 1804, it was arranged by the decorative artist Pietro Gonzago, an Italian master of garden and park art. The Italian was invited to arrange Pavlovsk Park by Empress Maria Feodorovna, who commissioned him to improve certain sections of the park. Red Valley differs from other parts of the park by its thoughtful combination of natural landscape with man-made greenery and well-executed clearings. In the park's design, Cameron's buildings did not play an important role, since to create picturesque scenes, the decorative artist used only nature, grouping trees and bushes, alternating groves, meadows, and clearings.
To date, Red Valley is the most "neglected" area of Pavlovsk Park, and the Elizabethan (Krasnodoliny) pavilion is also in a state of disrepair. Restoration of the monuments in this part of the park is planned in the near future.
The landscape of Red Valley is based on numerous ponds, a chain of which stretches from the Bolshaya Zvezda area, crossing the Tyarlevskaya clearing and connecting with the ponds of the New Chalet, ending with the Krasnodoliny pond with a cascade flowing into the Slavyanka River. It is in this part of the park that the famous Island of Love is located. In addition to natural and man-made beauties, Red Valley also contains two monuments related to events of the Great Patriotic War. One is dedicated to four nurses who died during shelling, and the second commemorates a certain Zulyaykha Batarsheva, about whom nothing is known except that she died in 1941 during fierce battles.
Source:
https://www.spb-guide.ru/elizavetin-krasnodolinnyj-pavilon-pavlovsk.htm
