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16.04.2019

The cold early April slightly delayed the spring awakening of the parks. Our outdoor sculptures are getting rid of their winter covers a week later than usually.

Over 74 objects in the Catherine and Alexander Parks are going to have the unattractive wooden boxes removed during this week. The statues at the Main Porch, facing the Main Courtyard of the Catherine Palace, were uncovered earlier this week, then came the turn of those in the Private Garden and on the Large Chinese Bridge.

22 more sculptures will soon be 'undressed' on the Granite Terrace and in the Old Garden that slopes down from the Catherine Palace to the Hermitage pavilion, as well as our famous Girl-with-a-Pitcher fountain. Scruffy after their 'winter hibernation', the works by different sculptors are regaining their beauty thanks to a special cleaning technology.

The Marble Fountain restored in the Private Garden of the Catherine Park last year, was covered and then uncovered especially carefully.

‘The Catherine Park statuary is a brand mark of the Museum’, says our outdoor sculpture conservator Nanalia Lanceray. ‘The Girl with a Pitcher, for example, is a poetic symbol of Tsarskoe Selo. Once uncovered, these marvelous sculptures change all around them and one can tell it's definitely spring now!’