Bathing Pavilion
About museum
In the second half of the 19th century a stone Bathing Pavilion was built for the wife of Emperor Alexander II, Maria Alexandrovna, who suffered from lung diseases. Here she could undergo the water-treatment procedures that were fashionable in Europe at the time. The pavilion includes a steam room with a stove-heater and a pyramid of cast-iron spheres, a room for warm baths and baths made from decoctions of medicinal herbs, as well as a cold bath with a shower disguised as an ornate chandelier of bronze and glass, decorated with clusters of grapes and bindweed flowers.