Alexandrovsky Park

Alexandrovsky Park in Pushkin is located on sedimentary deposits of the Paleozoic sea over 200 meters thick, which cover a crystalline basement of granites, gneisses, and diabases. In the landscape park, laid out around the Alexandrovsky Palace in the 1790s, there are picturesque ponds with peninsulas, the artificial hill "Parnassus," and bosquets, as well as a complex of Neo-Gothic buildings by architect Adam Menelas, which includes the White Tower, the Chapel, the Arsenal, and the Lams' Pavilion. For the 300th anniversary of Tsarskoye Selo, sculptures of the Great Chinese Bridge, the Shaky Bridge, and the "White Tower" pavilion were unveiled here, while the Krasnoselskie Gates, after restoration by Polish specialists, once again adorn the entrance, with the cast-iron parts of the Elephant Gates having been moved to the Old Krasnoselskaya Road back in 1846.