Admiralteystvo (Tsarskoye Selo)

The Admiralty in the Catherine Park of Pushkin is a complex of structures, the design of which was approved in 1773, and the finishing was completed in 1777. In its central building, the Dutch style reminiscent of Petrine Baroque, toy-like towers, and decorative Gothic elements are whimsically combined. On the sides of the boat pool are two pavilions for keeping birds and ponds for waterfowl, connected to the main building by a fence made by the Mint. In the Sailor's House nearby lived the oarsmen sailors who rowed visitors around the pond, and since 1901, the Gottorp Globe with a diameter of 3.1 meters — the world's first globe-planetarium, brought to Russia by Peter I — has been exhibited in the Dutch Hall.