Pil Tower

The Pyl Tower is a pavilion in the Pavlovsk Park on the bank of the Slavyanka River, built in 1797 in the form of a sawmill on the border between the landscaped part and the dark forests of Novaya Silviya. The structure was conceived in the style of "romantic poverty," in which a modest exterior concealed royal luxury of the interior, where servants were housed on the first floor and the owners on the second. On the second floor, a round painted ceiling with a depiction of cupids playing with zephyrs has been preserved, and the salon is adorned with a fireplace made of gray and red marble. During the Great Patriotic War, the interior decoration of the tower was severely damaged due to the quartering of a unit of the Spanish Blue Division there.