In 1947, Joseph Stalin signed a decree for the construction of the complex. A historical site was chosen for its construction. Here is where the estate of Natalya Petrovna Golitsyna was located in the late XVIII and early XIX centuries, who served as the archetype for Pushkin’s ‘Queen of Spades’. Now the rotunda is a favourite recreational site in Neskuchny Garden.  Poems are recited and music groups perform here in summer.