Temple of the Rose Without Thorns

The Temple of the Rose Without Thorns, also known as the "Temple of Felitsa," is a seven-column rotunda on Alexander's Dacha in Pavlovsk. The structure, which has existed since the 1780s, stands on a high bank of the lake on the cape of the Tyzva River, and the authorship of the building is attributed to Charles Cameron, Nikolay Lvov, or Giacomo Quarenghi. On the temple's ceiling there was a figure of Russia leaning on a shield with an image of Felitsa, and traces of the inscription "Temple of Felitsa" were preserved on the outer frieze. Inside the rotunda, where parts of the frescoes were preserved by 1917, a vase with a thornless rose branch made of gilded bronze stood on a marble pedestal.