In a small planted area originally known as the Admiral’s Garden, the Triumphal Arch was erected in 1891 to commemorate Tsarevitch Nicholas’s visit to Vladivostok.  Guidebooks of that time write that while the arch was built of bricks and stone in a severe Byzantine-Russian style, it nevertheless managed to produce an impression of light airiness.  The facets of the columns resembled those of Granovitaya Palata (the Hall of Facets) in the Moscow Kremlin.  The four gates--one on each side--were richly decorated with old Russian-style ornaments.  The color scheme ranged from bright red to dark blue and from hues of grass green to orange and light blue that harmonized internally and produced a warm impression.  The light and dark blue roof in the form of a tall eight-sided pyramid topped the cornice with four large and eight small Byzantine-lancet half arches.