Descriptif de l'œuvre «The Fun Palace»
"Poteshny palace" woodblock print Pavlov I.N. 1921
monogram at the bottom right of the IP
sheet No. 11 From the album "Revolutionary Moscow to the Third Congress of the Communist International". 1921
sheet size 35.5x25.7 cm imprint 20.5x15 cm, 7.7x5.5 cm
Engraving depicting the Kremlin Wall, the trees of the Alexander Garden and the Poteshny Palace standing behind the wall on the territory of the Moscow Kremlin.
The Poteshny palace, built in 1651 as the living quarters of the boyar Miloslavsky, is situated near the western Kremlin wall between the Komendantskaya and Troitskaya towers. After Miloslavsky's death his estate in the Kremlin was owned by the state (1669), and in 1672 the first theatrical performances in Russia - "peskhi" - were staged in the palace for the royal family, after which the palace got its name. Since 1679 the members of the tsarist family settled here, for them the palace was extended and rebuilt. Under Peter the Great the Police Department was located here, a century later (1806) the building was adapted to house and house the chancellery of the Commandant of Moscow, for these purposes the palace was substantially rebuilt again. In 1874-75 on the wave of historicism and interest to national style an attempt was made to recreate the original appearance, but its realization was closer to stylization rather than scientific restoration. Nowadays the Kremlin Commandant's Office is situated in the building, on its initiative in 2000-2004 partial restoration was carried out in the palace. The Poteshny palace is the only surviving boyar mansions in the Moscow Kremlin.
Alexander Garden is a park in the center of Moscow near the Kremlin walls, laid out on the site of the Neglinka river bed by order of Alexander I as part of the plan to restore Moscow after the fire of 1812. The garden was created in 1820-23 by the project of Bove. Initially the gardens (Upper, Middle and Lower; the boundaries of the gardens are still clearly visible) were called Kremlin gardens, in 1856 they were named after their founder. The memorial importance of the gardens is reminded by the main garden's gate decorated with the symbols of triumph, made according to the drawings of E.F. Pascal, and the grotto "Ruins", made of the ruins of buildings, destroyed by Napoleon's army. In 1914 in Alexandrovsky garden the Romanovsky obelisk in honor of the 300th anniversary of the House of Romanov was opened, in 1918 it was remade by the Bolsheviks as a monument to socialist thinkers and revolutionary figures. In the 20th century, the original theme of military victory was continued by the erection of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and monuments to hero-cities.