Kamenny Island Palace

[1] The interiors were designed by Vincenzo Brenna in imitation of Piranesi's views of Rome.

[1] Emperor Paul presented the palace to the former Polish king, Stanisław August Poniatowski.

After his death the estate was inherited by his brother Michael, then by his widow Helen and their daughter Catherine.

It was Felten who designed the nearby Church of St. John the Baptist, where Alexander Pushkin had two of his children baptised.

The 1770s church building is rather unusual for Russia in that it imitates the Gothic architecture of Western Europe.