The Tsarskoe Selo Museum in Pushkin is implementing a restoration project for the building of the Pensioner Stables and the horse cemetery “The Emperor’s Own Saddle,” MK reports.
As Natalya Kudryavtseva, deputy director for restoration of the State Museum of Tsarskoe Selo, told the publication, the stable building was built in the late 1820s by order of Nicholas I for the horses of the imperial court, which were no longer capable of service. The stable contained eight stalls, rooms for storing equipment and housing for grooms.
In the nearby necropolis, horses were buried from the 1830s to 1917; in total, there were about 120 tombstones of the royal favorites in the cemetery. Among them, on the northern outskirts of Alexander Park, the horse Lamy, who was with Alexander I on the Paris campaign, the mare Flora, on which Nicholas I rode near Varna, and Kob, on which Alexander III rode around the troops, found peace.
As part of the restoration work, land reclamation and installation of utility networks were carried out. The facades and roof of the stable building were repaired, and internal finishing and installation work is next. The Tsarskoe Selo State Museum plans to recreate the layout of the horse necropolis, restore and return the main tombstones to their historical place by 2025. Then the work will continue, and after its final completion, the Pensioner’s stable will be included in the museum’s excursion route.
Source: Rosbalt
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