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Pavlovsk (Russian: Па́вловск "[the town] of Pavel" after Emperor Pavel (Paul) of Russia) is a municipal town in Pushkinsky District in the suburban part of the federal city of St. Petersburg, Russia, located 30 kilometers (19 mi) south from St. Petersburg proper and about 4 kilometers (2.5 mi) southeast from Pushkin.
Pavlovsk, city, Leningrad oblast (region), northwestern Russia. Founded in 1777 as Pavlovskoye, it became a city and was renamed Pavlovsk in 1796. The site, on the Slavyanka River, was a gift from Catherine II the Great to her son and heir, Paul.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Pavlovsk Palace (Russian: Павловский дворец) is an 18th-century Russian Imperial residence built by the order of Catherine the Great for her son Grand Duke Paul, in Pavlovsk, within Saint Petersburg. After his death, it became the home of his widow, Maria Feodorovna.
Pavlovsk is an outstanding Palace and Park Ensemble, a monument of Russian architecture of the XVIII and early XIX centuries, including a presidential decree in the list of protected national heritage sites in Russia. The State Museum-Estate is visited annually by more than 1.5 million tourists.
Pavlovsk Palace and park is an 18th-century Russian Imperial residence built by the order of Catherine the Great for her son, Grand Duke Paul, in Pavlovsk, within Saint Petersburg. The palace and the large English garden surrounding it are now a Russian state museum and public park.
Pavlovsk is the youngest of the grand Imperial estates around St. Petersburg. Named in honour of Tsar Pavel, this fine neo-classical palace and its extensive landscaped gardens are stamped with his taste and even more so with that of his wife, the German-born Maria Feodorovna.
Gifted by Catherine the Great to her son Pavel, Pavlovsk is home to an outstanding landscape park and Neoclassical palace nestled in the forest outside St Petersburg.
