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The Ruin Tower ((ロシア語:Башня-руина)) is an 18th-century monument in Ekaterininsky park of Tsarskoye Selo in Pushkin, a town near St. Petersburg, Russia. It was designed and constructed in 1771-1773 by Russian architect Yury Felten, who chose to build it at a location near the Orlovsky gate. The monument represents a fragment of the subdued Turkish fortress consisting of a huge tower and a part of a fortification with system of defensive devices. This original decorative construction makes impression dilapidated construction time. Now Ruin Tower is a part of landscape gardening ensemble of a museum. Access to it is opened daily from 11.00 until 17.00 o'clock. == History == Tower it is erected in honour of heroic battles of Russo-Turkish War of 1768–1774 by request of Catherine II. Civil work were conducted by architect I. M. Sitnikov. The powerful stone tower in the form of a column of Tuscan order is topped by the round arbour-pavilion established on abacus. The arbour is dilapidated, with through Gothic lancet apertures, from the top platform from height of 21 metres the magnificent kind on lake and parks opens. In the summer of 1773 artist A. Belsky has painted external walls of Towers-ruins. On the plastered surface the cracks simulating natural damages of a laying of walls have been cut. From the Tower the huge stone arch as which continuation the artificial embankment-ramp along the edges of which in 1784 trees have been planted serves is thrown. The arch serves as an input in a narrow corridor with a spiral flat ramp for lifting on a tower. Massive impost of arches it is located almost at ground level at the tower base. It even more strengthens the impression that the Tower has left deeply in the earth.〔 On other party of an embankment-ramp pig-iron gate in Gothic style are established. The embankment-ramp comes to an end with pig-iron collars in Gothic style. After erection of a monument the tower was used as a specific platform, and the fortification with a front entrance in the form of an arch-entrance and an earthen embankment became a place for walks and pleasure drivings.〔 Gate on J.M.Felten's model have been cast in 1782 in Ekaterinburg at Demidovsky factories. This one of the architectural products first in Russia of pig-iron. Graceful it is thin the executed drawing - the certificate of a great skill of Russian founders.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ruin Tower」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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