A short distance from the Church of Peter and Paul, on the slope of a hill, lies a small tomb designed by architect A.P. Bryullov, where Count Adolf Polye was buried in 1830. Previously, the tomb was open, and inside one could see an empty, yet remarkably clean chamber lined with stone slabs. There is a hole in the floor through which a slender person can crawl to explore a small and not particularly remarkable underground space.
The facade of the tomb, embedded in the hill, is clad in polished red Finnish granite and adorned with cast iron lace. The entrance to the tomb was through double doors: the first, a grating iron door, followed by a massive oak door with bronze handles. Above the doors was a bronze gilded coat of arms of the Shuvalov counts. Inside, against the back wall, stood a pedestal of black marble with yellow veins, on which rested a marble statue of a woman in a tunic with flowing hair, kneeling. Her arms were outstretched towards the open grave in the floor of the tomb. The area in front of the tomb was planted with silvery firs and surrounded by an iron fence.
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