Turkish Bath


     On a south cape of the Great Pond stands the Turkish Bath, built in 1852 by Monighetti to mark the Russia’s victory in the Russo-Turkish war of 1828-1829. From the outside the building resembles a mosque. The interior of the pavilion was originally designed in the Mauritanian style. From the vestibule the visitors were entering the cloakroom, the walls of which were inlaid with marble mosaics at the bottom and covered with moldings and painted arabesques at the top. The cloakroom was separated from the washroom by an alcove in which there was a fountain. Further along in the central octagonal hall was a pool of white marble.
     The pavilion suffered badly during the Nazi occupation. In 1953 the exterior facade of the building has been restored, but the interior is still far from complete.