Olga Pavilion

The Olga Pavilion on Olga Island in Peterhof was built in 1846–1848 according to the design of architect Andrei Stackenschneider as a gift from Nicholas I to his daughter Olga Nikolaevna on the occasion of her marriage to Prince Karl of Württemberg. For the 1846 wedding, the pavilion interiors were temporarily covered with painted canvases "imitating plaster," and its dining room still displays a set from the Grand Duchess's dowry — porcelain and silver with her initials. A portrait of Olga Nikolaevna by the artist P. N. Orlov, painted in Palermo in the same year of 1846, hangs on the dining room wall. In the garden on the island, designed after the Elysium from Rousseau's novel, grow roses, pansies, verbenas, nemophilas, phloxes, petunias, sedums, dahlias, lilies, as well as raspberries, currants, and lilacs.