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Built in the late XVIII and early XIX centuries, the palace and park was used as a summer residence for emperor Paul I and his family. The landscape park, one of the largest in Europe, covers an area of 600 hectares. A plenty of pavilions and statues decorate different corners of the park. The museum in the palace displays an excellent collection of portraits by Russian artists and a number of Pavlovsk landscape paintings and drawings. Residential rooms of the Empress Maria Fedorovna are enrapturing with their harmonious beauty and are open the public.
Pavlovsk is also closely connected with the name of Austrian composer Johan Strauss who often performed there and even dedicated some musical pieces to Pavlovsk Park. It’s only that a statue of Strauss has recently been put in Pavlovsk.