Opened 1774 | ||
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Similar Catherine Palace, Chesme Column, Catherine Park, Turkish bath pavilion, Kagul Obelisk | ||
The Siberian Marble Gallery between Swan Islands — an artificial archipelago of seven islets in the landscape park of Tsarskoe Selo — spans a rivulet flowing between several ponds. The bridge was modelled after the Palladian Bridge (1736) in the park of Wilton House and served as a showcase for the Ural marbles. All the details of the bridge — including the granite Ionic colonnade — were produced in Yekaterinburg, transported to Tsarskoe Selo and then assembled in the workshop of Vincenzo Tortori in 1774. It is probably called Siberian due to its construction with marble from the Urals.
The bridge has been repeatedly vandalised (on a small scale) despite the fact that after renovation in the late twentieth century it was fenced off from public access and equipped with a burglar alarm.