The Mausoleum for Czar Paul I (1754-1801) in the Park of Pavlovsk, near Saint Petersburg, Russia: Side Elevation
date: label: Date
content: 1805
name: label: Draftsman
content: Thomas de Thomon (Jean-François Thomas), French, active in Russia, 1759–1813
label: Architect
content: Thomas de Thomon (Jean-François Thomas), French, active in Russia, 1759–1813
notes: label: Description
content: A side of a building with five Doric pilasters, portico, and one Doric column. A Doric frieze contains metopes of masks and vases. At right and left corners of the base supporting the building are two urns, each entwined by a snake. At left, a tree grows on a boulder near a path; at right - an abundance of trees and foliage. Czar Paul I (r. 1796-1801) was assassinated in March 1801. His widow, the Empress Maria Feodorovna, commissioned this mausoleum from Thomas de Thomon, a French architect working in St. Petersburg between 1799 and 1813. The building still stands today on the grounds of Pavlovsk Palace.
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
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content: Museum purchase through gift of Margery and Edgar Masinter and from Drawings and Prints Council, Sarah Cooper-Hewitt, and Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program Funds
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1998-37-1
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, green and brown watercolor, trace of black chalk on cream laid paper, ruled borders in pen and black ink
label: Dimensions
content: 24.8 x 38.4 cm (9 3/4 x 15 1/8 in.)