Tsaritsyn Pavilion is located at Peterhof, being the main construction Kolonistskogo Park. The pavilion was built in 1842-1844 gg. for the wife of Nicholas I, Alexandra Feodorovna in the fashionable while "Pompeian" style. The building reproduces the appearance of the ancient houses, which were found during excavations of Pompeii near Naples.

The building is located in the middle of the pond on the Empress Olga's Island and is surrounded by a garden with statues, fountains and marble benches. This secluded island, architect AI Shtakenshneider and garden master PI Erler was an attempt to create a certain model of "paradise", the perfect romantic world that wanted to Alexandra.

The structure of the premises of the pavilion consisted of: dining room, pantry, living room with three niches, an atrium, a study of the Empress, outdoor staircase, terrace and inner garden.

On the south side is the main entrance to the pavilion .  It is decorated with a small loggia with marble columns .  Upon entering the pavilion, once you get to the light-flooded atrium .  Pompei atrium was the main part of the house, which was closed on all sides and had skylights in the ceiling .  Due to the fact that there were no windows in hot weather, the house was not stuffy .  And during the rain water was collected in the atrium in the center of the pool-impluvium .  Also arranged in the atrium and the Empress Pavilion .  In the center of it - a square pool with a fountain, vase .  In the corners of the pool - the four pillars of gray marble that support the roof .  But because of climate variability Russian Shtakenshnejdera had to make a glass dome, closed during the cold season .  As the water drains were figures of fantastic monsters .  Painting the walls of the atrium is made and .  And the drawings Drollingerom . AND .  Shtakenshnejdera .  On the parapet of the pool - bronze sculptures brought by the Emperor of the Italian trip 1845 .

To the right of the atrium is a room with three niches, which corresponds to the ancient eksedr or recreation room. In the niches - blue semicircular sofas. On a separate pedestal - a marble sculpture of "Psyche" Chinchinato Barutstsi.

Through the atrium you can get to the living room - the largest room of the pavilion. The opening, which connects the atrium and a living room, decorated with two columns of black and white "antique" marble statue of a reclining woman, and (sculptor F. Lamotte). The prospect that opens from the living room to the side of the atrium - the most beautiful in the Empress Pavilion. The walls are decorated with bright red panels with small dark medallions depicting griffins. On the mantelpiece - a bust of Roman marble (II-IV century.) And two porcelain vases, which are painted as an antique (1830.).

Floor dining room is decorated with authentic Pompeian mosaics I century AD Framing the mosaic consists of strips of marble and porphyry and performed on the project Shtakenshnejdera at Peterhof Lapidary Works.

Study of Empress is a narrow room that ends with a semicircular alcove with a sofa of crimson cloth. Oriental motifs in the interior of the cabinet make two mosaics twisted columns 12-14 centuries. The door of the office opened in the internal garden. Coming in from the yard and climbed the outside stairs, you can get into the office of the emperor. From a narrow spiral staircase leads upstairs to the tower. From there, a beautiful view of the flower garden and pond.

In the inner garden are two of the fountain - a small fountain and the fountain-Mascaron "The Eagle and the Snake" (sculptor Markizini). To the left of the garden is a terrace, which is framed by openwork iron railing with vases.

Family Emperor used the pavilion as amusement. The Empress came here along with his entourage to see the illuminations, or tea. After the revolutionary events of 1917 opened a museum in the pavilion, which lasted until 1933, during the repression Tsaritsyn Pavilion closed and museum treasures were moved to the chambers of the Grand Palace.

During the occupation by the Nazis in the pavilion was set up an observation post. From neglect building significantly damaged, but it was not destroyed. Sculpture, the rest of the island was divided, wooden elements were used as firewood.

Restoration work at the Empress Hall was completed in 2005 and the museum opened to the public.