The Tower Ruin , a monument

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The town of Pushkin. The Catherine Park, near the Ramp Alley and the Gatchina Gate.

Architect: Yury Matveyevich Velten (1730-1801)
Painter: Aleksey Ivanovich Belsky (1726-1796)
The Tower Ruin was constructed in 1771-1773.

Materials: brick, plaster, wall-painting al fresco was used for the tower, Serdobol granite was used for the socle, Pudost stone was used for the archivolt, white marble was used for the the key-stone with the inscription.

The inscription was carved on the key-stone with the Old-Russian letters:
In memory of the war declared on Russia by the Turks, this stone was set in place in 1768.

The monumental construction is the huge Doric column, coreless inside, with the abacus used as a view ground. The wall as a ramp, marked with a blind semicircular arch from the northern side, joins to the tower from the eastern side. In the key-stone there is a marble block with the inscription remembered about the beginning of the Russo-Turkish War of 1768-1774. The construction work was done under supervising of the architect assistant I.M. Sitnikov from 3 June 1771 to the end of building season in 1773. Outside walls were painted by A.I. Belsky, with carving the plaster and cracks for the imitation of the destroying of the brickwork. Depicting of the Tower Ruin became one of the popular plots of the Tsarskoye Selo landscapes. The restoration of the pavilion-monument done during many years was finished in 2006.

The high of the monument is 21 metres. Belsky, Aleksey Ivanovich
Felten Yury (Georg Friedrich) Matveevich
Sitnikov, I.M.
Ekaterininsky Park/Pushkin, town вблизи Рамповой аллеи и Гатчинских ворот