Ruin Tower (Tsarskoye Selo)

The Tower-Ruin in Catherine Park of Pushkin is an architectural folly in the form of an artificial ruin, built according to the design of Yu. M. Felten in 1771. The structure is made in the form of a column of the Tuscan order, crowned at a height of 21 meters by a circular gazebo, and the date 1768 is indicated on the keystone of the arch in Old Slavonic letters. The walls of the tower were artificially aged with cracks and painted on plaster under the direction of the artist A. I. Belsky to resemble the ruins of a fortress. The first major repair of the structure took place in 1883, and restoration work since 1993 was carried out by the Polish company PKZ.