Admiralteystvo (Gatchina)

The Admiralty in the Gatchina Palace Park was built in the 1790s as a ship shed for storing sailing vessels, boats, and yawls. In front of this one-story, windowless building with an area of about 500 square meters, the "Kovsh" pond was dug, which served as a dock for completing ships and was connected to the lake by a channel with a drawbridge. Inside the extensive wooden shed, ship timber was stored in the Dutch manner — vertically on the ends, resting on twelve rusticated columns made of Paritsky slab. After the fire of 1993, the twelve leaning columns were straightened in 2009, and four new ones were also added; however, by the end of 2022, there were no signs of further reconstruction.