Alexandrov Dacha

Alexandrov's Dacha in Pavlovsk is a federal-level archaeological and architectural monument included in the UNESCO World Heritage List. This ensemble is associated with the birth of the future Emperor Alexander I on December 12, 1777, and his visits here in the summer of 1793 with his future wife, Elizaveta Alekseevna. The dacha's territory housed a pavilion-namet known from Dzhunkovsky's poem, and a Temple of Ceres with a statue of the goddess resembling Raschett's sculpture. The once-planned Novgorod road was never completed, and the Thornless Rose Temple was destroyed between 1941 and 1956.