Eagle Pavilion

The Eagle Pavilion in the Gatchina Palace Park is a rotunda, the front part of which is formed by a semicircle of ten Tuscan columns made of gray marble with white veins, standing on high pedestals. The back wall of the structure is decorated with a semi-dome with coffers, molded rosettes, and a shell, arranged in three rows of seven. Originally named the Temple, the pavilion was renamed by Nicholas I to the "Round Gazebo" in 1846, then to the "Gazebo of Paul I," and received its current name during the Soviet era. A statue of a white marble one-headed eagle wearing an imperial crown and holding a shield with the monogram of Paul I was recreated on the colonnade in 2023 after the 1969–1970 restoration.