Баболовский дворец — Attraction in Pushkin

Babolovo or Babolovka was a dacha (myza) of Prince Potemkin in Tsarskoe Selo. It was in 1780 that Catherine II of Russia presented the grounds adjoining the Catherine Park and the Alexander Park to her then-favourite, Potemkin. A temporary wooden palace was built to house the lovers' trysts. It was rebuilt in stone to a Gothic Revival design by Ilya Neyelov between 1782 and 1785. The Babolovsky Palace was essentially a summerhouse with seven rooms giving on to a park, a quaint octagonal tower and no second floor.

Alexander I of Russia used the palace for his furtive rendezvous with Sophia Velho, a court banker's daughter. He commissioned Vasily Stasov to redesign the palace. The tower was replaced with a huge bath hewn from a red granite monolith. Engineer Agustín de Betancourt had it placed within the room before the walls were constructed. The bath weighed 48 tons and was 196 cm high.

The palace fell into disrepair after the Russian Revolution and currently stands in ruins. The granite bath mentioned in one of Pushkin's first poems is still in situ. Other structures in the Babolovsky Park (which covers some 300 ha) have disappeared, apart from an aqueduct from the 1770s and Adam Menelaws' gate separating...

the babolovsky palace with its famous tsar's bath is part of the Tsarskoye Selo State Museum Preserve. 1782-1785. Architect: Ilya Neyelov. it lies in ruins nowadays. yet the bath is preserved. it's fenced / protected and awaits its restoration. since the babolovsky palace and park were transfered to the tsarskoye selo state museum preserve works at the park have been carried out to recreate the...

Как гласит текст на щите, висящем на заборе, которым обнесён дворец, во дворце в 2018 начался ремонт длительностью в 10 лет. Территория охраняется и внутрь не пускают. К тому же охранники сообщили, что саму ванну увидеть не получится всё равно - она закрыта щитами, видимо для защиты от падающих кирпичных обломков. Дворец сильно разрушен, фактически, если доведут ремонт до конца, это будет уже новодел. Интересно, какую официальную историю придумают для дворца и для самой ванны. Кусок самого парка, который посетил, мне понравился. Надо бы проехать по...