Review article

Basing on the periodization and development of the planning structure and volumetric and spatial composition of the architectural landscape, the author reveals the main features and principles of creation of the Tsarskoe Selo palace and park ensemble and offers some valuable planning structure and volume-spatial characteristics of its architectural landscape for each of the stages under consideration. There have been worked out some graphical schemes providing the substantiation for the transformation of the main planning elements (road and footpath network, ponds, palaces, pavilions, hydro-technical structures, etc.). In order to further develop approaches to the preservation of valuable elements and the integrity of the historical aspect of the object under study, there are highlighted morphological features and the continuity of the formation of the architectural and planning organization of the ensemble.