Eagle Column

The Eagle Column in the Gatchina Palace Park is a marble column 6.4 meters high on a tall, four-sided pedestal in the classical style. The trunk made of white veined marble is executed in the forms of the Roman-Doric or Tuscan order, and the top of the structure is crowned with a sculpture of an eagle. In the 1790s, the column was united into a single ensemble with the Eagle Pavilion on Long Island, which is also fixed in paintings where both objects are depicted together. The eagle allegory is associated with the heraldic symbol of the Orlov family, the image of which was included in their coat of arms.