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The Ruin Tower

Categories / Tsarskoe Selo and town of Pushkin. The digital chronological reference book/The Pantheon of military glory/Monuments dedicated to important events of the military history of Russia of the XVII - XIX centuries

The Ruin Tower is an unusual decorative structure commemorating the victory of Russia over the Ottoman Porte. The inscription on the saddle stone reads: “This stone is placed in 1768 for the memory of the was declared by the Turks on Russia”. The Ruin Tower was designed by architect Y.M. Felten. It is situated in the new part of the Catherine Park and resembles of ruins of a medieval castle.
A stone arch is adjacent to the Tower the continuation of the arch is an artificial embankment-ramp imitating a rampart.
The embankment-ramp ends with a Gothic style cast iron gate that was made at Demidov’s factories in Yekaterinburg in 1777 – 1778.
It is one of the first cast-iron works in Russia and it’s an evidence of high-class workmanship of Russian foundrymen.