Pavlovsk Museum-Reserve

The museum-reserve in Pavlovsk includes a palace, the general design of which in the Palladian style was created by the Scottish architect Charles Cameron, although due to conflicts with the owners after 1786, the construction was completed by Henri-François-Gabriel Viollier. The palace opened its doors to visitors in June 1918, and in 1957, after the war, the first halls became accessible to the public: the Front Hall, the Chevalier Guard Hall, the Chevalier Hall, the Orchestra Hall, and the Buffet Hall. To restore the interiors, 2,500 photographic negatives from the beginning of the century by Benois and eleven thousand photographs taken before the war were used. In August 1941, thirteen thousand items along with all the documentation were evacuated from the museum in time.