🏛 Kapriz Palace and the Tea House

Красногорск, пос. Архангельское

The small one-story Kapriz palace and the neighboring Tea House pavilion, surrounded by a formal garden in the western part of the park.

Kapriz was built under the Golitsyns in the late 18th century and rebuilt in 1817–1818 to a design by Yevgraf Tyurin.
The pavilion stretches 53 meters but is only 9 wide.
In the early 19th century the whole complex of park pavilions was called Kapriz.
The Tea House is the former Library: the remains of Dmitry Golitsyn's books, confiscated in 1737, were probably kept there.
The rotunda pavilion became the Tea House after the fire of 1820; since 1936 Antokolsky's "Angel of Prayer" has stood in it.

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