Temple of Friendship (Pavlovsk)

The Temple of Friendship in Pavlovsk is an ancient rotunda temple with a blind exterior wall without windows, surrounded by a ring of sixteen white fluted columns of the Greek-Doric order. In the metopes of the frieze of the structure, reliefs of dolphins, symbolizing friendship in ancient mythology, and wreaths of grapevine, signifying the renewal of nature, alternate. The gilded inscription above the entrance has been lost, and only the letter "’" has been preserved in the museum. The pavilion, whose facades and interiors have been repeatedly restored after the Great Patriotic War, probably served as a venue for chamber concerts for a narrow circle of the court.