Reserve Palace (Pushkin)

The Spare Palace in Pushkin is a country estate in the Classical style. The lower floor of the building serves as a base for the two upper floors, and the main facade is adorned with a half-rotunda with Ionic order columns and a spherical semi-dome. After 1917, the widow of Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich ceased to manage the palace, and from 1958 to 1976, the Pushkin Pioneer House was located within its walls. In the late 1970s, after a local history exhibition that had been operating there for several years, the museum collections moved to a new building.