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The Upper Bathhouse pavilion
Sadovaya ul., 7A l Pushkin
On the shore of the Mirror Pond is the pavilion “Upper Bath”, or, as it was called in the XVIII century, “Their Highnesses’ Soap House”, built in 1777-1779 by the architects V. I. and I. V. Neelov.
Until the mid-XIX century, the Upper Bath retained its original purpose and consisted of six rooms: a vestibule, a changing room, a bath, a bathhouse (steam room), a stoker's room (water heating) and a central octagonal relaxation room. Destroyed during the war, the Upper Bath was restored in 1952-1953. Currently, the pavilion is used to house temporary exhibitions.
