Copies of Paul I's crowns will be made in St. Petersburg

In St. Petersburg they will make copies of 18th century crowns for weddings. The work is commissioned by Metropolitan Mstislav of Tikhvin and Lodeynopolsk.

The masters will use as a basis a cast of the crown of Paul I. It is wound in the Kazan Cathedral in St. Petersburg, reports TV channel "78" with reference to the "Petersburg Diary".

Specialists will create two pairs - male and female. The weight of each crown is 1.2 kg. Now the process is at the stage of assembly.

Earlier it was reported that the Arbitration Court of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region obliged the State Academic Mariinsky Theater to carry out work on the restoration of the house of Princess Shakhovskaya. The house, where Mikhail Lermontov lived in 1836-1837, has the status of a cultural heritage site of regional significance.