Fan from the Pavlovsk palace detail

Fan from the Pavlovsk palace continued

18th century fan from the Pavlovsk palace collection

Fan plie
1793
5 views of Pavlovsk
Italy and Russia
Ivory, gold, parchment, watercolour
Belonged to Maria Feodorovna
Was brought from the Grand tour of Italy. This is a typical souvenir from Italy. Views of Pavlovsk were added later by an anonymous miniaturist who knew Pavlovsk very well.




View from the back

Very good old books on Pavlovsk

1. Semevski, M.I., Pavlovsk, 1877
   In Russian
The book is based on archival materials and contains a lot of original documents and letters relating to Maria Feodorovna.
Available from archive.org  : http://archive.org/details/pavlovsk00seme


2. Kurbatov, V.I., Pavlovsk

The book was written in the 20th century and contains updated information on the Pavlovsk park. Kurbatov was one of the major art historians in Russia.

Available from archive.org: http://archive.org/details/pavlovsk00kurb
In Russian

Bibliography on Maria Feodorovna's European Grand tour

1.1. Nachertaniye puteshestviya ikh imperatorskikh visochestv gosugarya velikogo knyazya Pavla Petrovicha i gosudariny velikoi knyagini Marii Fedorovny pod imenem Grafa I Grafini Severnikh, Saint Petersburg, The Imperial Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg,  1783 (General plan of the trip with the names of cities and hotels). Available for download  from the Russian State library website

1.2. John Vienot, “Le Grand Duc Paul et la Grande Duchesse Marie Fedorovna et leur sejour en France en 1782”, Bale, 1902, Titre de la revue chretienne (available from the BNF website (Bibliotheque Nationale de France))

1.3. Ennes, Pierre, “The visit of the compte and comptesse du Nord to the Sevres manufactury”, in Apollo, March 1989, pp.150-156.

1.4. Memoires de la baronne d’Oberkirch, Paris, Charpentier, 1853, available from archive.org

1.5. L’Album du comte du Nord kept in the library of the Musee Conde a Chantilly, was published recently

1.6. B.Sokolov, “Albom grafa Severnogo, ili sady Pavla I”, Nashe naslediye magazine, number 58, 2001 (The album of the comte du Nord and Paul I gardens), available from the Nashe naslediye journal, http://nasledie-rus.ru/podshivka/5801.php

1.7. N.I.Stadnihuk, “Rimskiy zhurnal grafa i grafini Severnikh”, from Pamyatniki kultury.Noviye otkritiya, ezhegodnik Rossiyskoi Akademii nauk magazine, 2002, pages 25-? (Roman journal of the Comte and Comtesse du Nord, kept in the Pavlovsk palace)

1.8. A.N.Guzanov, “Graf i grafinya Severniye i Frantsiya”, in Pavlovskiye chteniya 2003 conference publoication, Saint Petersburg, 2003 (Comte and comptesse du Nord and their stay in France)

1.9. Bachaumont, L.,”Tsesarevich Pavel I vo Frantsii v 1782”, in Russkaya starina, 1882, number 11 (Paul I and his stay in France in 1782), available from http://starieknigi.info/

1.10 Letters of Catherine the Great to Paul and Maria (from the Russkaya starina magazine)

Books on Maria Fedorovna

Relevant books about Maria Fedorovna:
1. Marie Martin, Maria Fedorovna en son temps (1759-1828).Contribution a l'histoire de la Russie et de l'Europe, l'Harmattan, 2003
The best recent book on Maria Fedorovna. The most valuable section of this book is a list of primary resources on Maria Fedorovna from Russian archives. Marie translated all letters into French.

Maps of Pavlovsk park

Central part of the park

Slavyanka valley

Old Sylvia

New Sylvia

Table with a view of Pavlovsk "The ruin and the Black bridge", 1798