Voronikhinskiy Colonnades

Voronikhine Colonnades in the Lower Park of Peterhof have facades 21 meters long and, like stage wings, separate the parterres from the green mass. Instead of a single row of columns, architect Stakenschneider made a solid wall that protects from the wind from the bay and serves as a backdrop for the colonnade. In the western gallery in 1745, B. Fries installed a water organ called the "Jaegerstueck," where water set in motion figures of a hunter, dogs, a deer, birds, and satyrs, while the sounds were produced by bellows. At the stairs on the side of the Sea Canal lie eight granite lions based on the model by I. P. Prokofiev, whose heads are covered with a scarf stylized after ancient Egyptian statues.