There are several parks in Gatchina. Last year I was at a jazz festival near the Great Gatchina Palace (on the right on the plan). This year I decided to get to the Priory Palace on my own (before I got there on a bus tour).
You can get to Gatchina either by train, or by minibus, or by car. Gatchina is growing, being built. Apparently, there will be not only traffic jams on the main street, but also problems with parking. So far, even on weekends you can find a place. Minibuses to Gatchina depart from metro station Moskovskaya or metro station Pr. Veterans. Electric trains from the Baltic Station - to Gatchina Baltic and Warsaw (the latter more often). The price of a minibus and an electric train is about the same.
The Priory Palace gave me an audio guide for free. For free, I joined the tour that I came to - about Nikolai Lvov.
With an audio guide, I only managed to get around the hall dedicated to that period in the life of the Order of Malta, when Paul I was its prior.
We have been in Valletta, the capital of the Order of Hospitallers since the 16th century (before that, the order was located in Jerusalem, then in Rhodes). True, I do not remember the original hall. Apparently they didn't go in. From Malta, the order got its name, which remains today - Maltese, although today the order is "registered" in Italy. However, it seems that there are buildings belonging to the order in Malta. It seems that we were told about the fortress of St. Angelo.
In the first hall there is a model of the hospital. An interesting detail: niches near the beds of patients are visible on the layout. It turns out that these are private toilets. It is unlikely that in the 16th century such amenities already existed in other countries. By the way, the knights treated everyone, regardless of nationality and religion.
Items from the time when the order settled in Malta are also exhibited here: a chair and a cassone (from the Italian cassa) - a chest in which the bride's dowry was placed. It was in the century when the order appeared that such chests began to be decorated with carvings.
The book about the order, which Paul I was reading, is also in the window.
The next room contains portraits of political figures from the time of Paul and himself. I listened to this information twice. Because the names are very famous. But what they are famous for, I did not know.
There is an image of a childhood friend of Paul I - the "diamond" Prince Alexander Borisovich Kurakin. He got his nickname because of the prince's love for diamonds (they decorated his clothes). However, once, thanks to the clothes richly decorated by them, he suffered less than others during a fire. He was a diplomat (at first he studied with Pavel with his uncle Panin, then abroad, he was there on behalf of both Paul and Alexander I).
Under Paul, he was Vice-Chancellor. His father owned Gatchina. He was friends with Pavel's wife Maria Fedorovna. He was an opponent of Rostopchin, whose image is also in the hall. It seemed to me curious what was written on Wikipedia: they believe that he introduced service a la russe (dishes are served one after another, hot) instead of the usual service a la francaise (all dishes are displayed at the same time).
There is also an image of the admiral of the time of Paul I, Count Grigory Grigoryevich Kushelev. The second marriage he married Bezborodko (the richest bride of that time). And his son has already become Kushelev-Bezborodko. The estate of Kushelev-Bezborodko in St. Petersburg is known to everyone who has seen "Italians in Russia": it is along it that lions sit in a row in front of a fence of chains.
In the same hall there is an image of Bezborodko, the “Minister of Foreign Affairs”, the initiator of negotiations with the Ambassador of the Order of Malta on the transfer of the Priory to Russia. He was, as it were, Pavel's minister of foreign affairs.
He negotiated with the Ambassador of the Order of Malta in Russia, Litta, whose portrait is also in the hall. Another "Minister affairs "Rostopchin is the opponent and successor of Bezborodko in office. He considered it necessary to rapprochement with France, and Paul was a supporter of everything German.
There is also a map of the last partition of Poland. Nearby is a caricature of Paul. And above the showcase is a picture showing the participants in the reshaping of Europe of those times.
On the second floor, they show the tools that were used to create the adobe Priory Palace. A portrait of Nikolai Lvov hangs there, a model of the palace is exhibited, there is a showcase that tells about his descendants, about architectural monuments built by Lvov and preserved to this day.
Nikolai Alexandrovich Lvov, "Russian Leonardo", who built the earth-beaten Priory Palace. However, he was not only an architect, but also a musician, poet, and translator. He was fond of exact sciences, he drew.
Lvov’s works have been preserved in the Tver region (he had an estate there, where he was buried) and in St. built-up outskirts of St. Petersburg). Well, in the Tver region, where his estate was.
You can get to Gatchina either by train, or by minibus, or by car. Gatchina is growing, being built. Apparently, there will be not only traffic jams on the main street, but also problems with parking. So far, even on weekends you can find a place. Minibuses to Gatchina depart from metro station Moskovskaya or metro station Pr. Veterans. Electric trains from the Baltic Station - to Gatchina Baltic and Warsaw (the latter more often). The price of a minibus and an electric train is about the same.
The Priory Palace gave me an audio guide for free. For free, I joined the tour that I came to - about Nikolai Lvov.
With an audio guide, I only managed to get around the hall dedicated to that period in the life of the Order of Malta, when Paul I was its prior.
We have been in Valletta, the capital of the Order of Hospitallers since the 16th century (before that, the order was located in Jerusalem, then in Rhodes). True, I do not remember the original hall. Apparently they didn't go in. From Malta, the order got its name, which remains today - Maltese, although today the order is "registered" in Italy. However, it seems that there are buildings belonging to the order in Malta. It seems that we were told about the fortress of St. Angelo.
In the first hall there is a model of the hospital. An interesting detail: niches near the beds of patients are visible on the layout. It turns out that these are private toilets. It is unlikely that in the 16th century such amenities already existed in other countries. By the way, the knights treated everyone, regardless of nationality and religion.
Items from the time when the order settled in Malta are also exhibited here: a chair and a cassone (from the Italian cassa) - a chest in which the bride's dowry was placed. It was in the century when the order appeared that such chests began to be decorated with carvings.
The book about the order, which Paul I was reading, is also in the window.
The next room contains portraits of political figures from the time of Paul and himself. I listened to this information twice. Because the names are very famous. But what they are famous for, I did not know.
There is an image of a childhood friend of Paul I - the "diamond" Prince Alexander Borisovich Kurakin. He got his nickname because of the prince's love for diamonds (they decorated his clothes). However, once, thanks to the clothes richly decorated by them, he suffered less than others during a fire. He was a diplomat (at first he studied with Pavel with his uncle Panin, then abroad, he was there on behalf of both Paul and Alexander I).
Under Paul, he was Vice-Chancellor. His father owned Gatchina. He was friends with Pavel's wife Maria Fedorovna. He was an opponent of Rostopchin, whose image is also in the hall. It seemed to me curious what was written on Wikipedia: they believe that he introduced service a la russe (dishes are served one after another, hot) instead of the usual service a la francaise (all dishes are displayed at the same time).
There is also an image of the admiral of the time of Paul I, Count Grigory Grigoryevich Kushelev. The second marriage he married Bezborodko (the richest bride of that time). And his son has already become Kushelev-Bezborodko. The estate of Kushelev-Bezborodko in St. Petersburg is known to everyone who has seen "Italians in Russia": it is along it that lions sit in a row in front of a fence of chains.
In the same hall there is an image of Bezborodko, the “Minister of Foreign Affairs”, the initiator of negotiations with the Ambassador of the Order of Malta on the transfer of the Priory to Russia. He was, as it were, Pavel's minister of foreign affairs.
He negotiated with the Ambassador of the Order of Malta in Russia, Litta, whose portrait is also in the hall. Another "Minister affairs "Rostopchin is the opponent and successor of Bezborodko in office. He considered it necessary to rapprochement with France, and Paul was a supporter of everything German.
There is also a map of the last partition of Poland. Nearby is a caricature of Paul. And above the showcase is a picture showing the participants in the reshaping of Europe of those times.
On the second floor, they show the tools that were used to create the adobe Priory Palace. A portrait of Nikolai Lvov hangs there, a model of the palace is exhibited, there is a showcase that tells about his descendants, about architectural monuments built by Lvov and preserved to this day.
Nikolai Alexandrovich Lvov, "Russian Leonardo", who built the earth-beaten Priory Palace. However, he was not only an architect, but also a musician, poet, and translator. He was fond of exact sciences, he drew.
Lvov’s works have been preserved in the Tver region (he had an estate there, where he was buried) and in St. built-up outskirts of St. Petersburg). Well, in the Tver region, where his estate was.
Translated automatically from Russian. View original
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