The Orchestral Room

A simple room with a rather modest design of the walls painted in a grisaille manner. Originally, a wide arched opening connecting the room with the Throne Room had no doors and the halls were only separated by a low barrier upholstered in red cloth. The room served as a kind of musical box, where the orchestra was located. Of interest is a sliding music stand for ten musicians (marquetry, Giuseppe Maggiolini, ca. 1790).

Currently, there is a kind of museum of Russian sculpture here. Five first-class works from different places of Pavlovsk are collected in this small room. Two works by Ivan Martos were moved here from the park, where they were part of the monuments to the early deceased daughters of Paul. In front of the window is the monument to Alexandra Pavlovna (1803–1811), on the left is the monument to Elena Pavlovna (1806). On the opposite side is a slab from the tombstone of N. Zagryazhsky (Ivan Martos, 1824) transferred from the church of St. Mary Magdalene, as well as two small marble statues by Mikhail Kozlovsky: Apollo the Hunter (1789) and Narcissus (1800). French marquetry chests of drawers stand near the walls (France, Henri Dasson, the mid-19th century, copies from the work by Henri−François Riesener, the famous furniture maker of the 18th century). A musical clock (England, the work of Torkler, the 1780s) stands on one of them, and the French rotator clock (the 18th century) stands on another one.