Great Caprice

The Great Caprice is an embankment in the Alexander Park of Pushkin, reinforced with stone blocks laid in the form of a heap of rocks. At the top of the embankment there is a Chinese pavilion with a curved roof resembling the roofs of the Squeaking Pavilion and the buildings of the Chinese Village, to which two staircases clad in marble and limestone lead. The main arch of the structure has a width of 5.25 meters and a height of 7 meters. During the 1988–1989 restoration, the walls, arch vaults, and facades were restored; however, after the work, the stone cladding of the vaults began to deteriorate, and some blocks on the slopes delaminated and crumbled.