Prioratsky Park

Priory Park in Gatchina, with an area of more than 154 hectares (according to Wikidata — 166.8 hectares), received its current name after the construction of the Priory Palace in 1797–1799 by order of Emperor Paul. Until the end of the 18th century, this territory was called the Small Menagerie, and the only major structure in the park is the Priory Palace itself, created according to the design of architect N. A. Lvov on the shore of the Black Lake. Near the lake, behind an artificial embankment, lay the Deaf, or Filkino, Lake, which together with the Black Lake formed a single water system of the Gatchina parks. At the park entrances stand four of the ten park guardhouses built in Gatchina, and the reconstruction of the territory began in the 1970s.