- Tauride Garden / Tavrichesky Garden
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59.945006966306, 30.374199872972 (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Yandex Maps)
- “A Boy with a Duck” fountain near the pond
- Take a selfie with the fountain in the background
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Selfie
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Историческая справка
Tavrichesky Garden was laid out in the late 18th century to be praised in the numerous works by Korney Chukovsky, Daniil Kharms, Nikolai Gogol, and many other authors. The park was laid out on the site of a small river Samoroyka at the Tavrichesky Palace. About 400,000 rubles in gold were spent on the construction and decoration of the palace and park for His Serene Highness Prince Grigory Aleksandrovich Potyomkin. In 1787, he was granted the title of Potemkin-Tavrichesky and the palace and the park were named accordingly. After his death in 1791, Catherine II bought the palace of her former favourite for her own summer residence.
The English master of garden art William Guld worked on the planning and laying out of Tavrichesky Park since 1783 for more than seventeen years, attracting the best engineers of the time. The park became one of the master’s favourite creations. Two ponds were dug at the site of the river, which Guld connected with canals. Water for filling the reservoirs was taken from Ligovsky Canal. The earth excavated during the creation of the ponds was used to fill slides and hills overlooking the palace. The big island was connected to the shore by two bridges, one of which was built by the mechanic Ivan Kulibin (however, this bridge was later dismantled). Lime, oak, larch, ash and birch trees were planted in the area. Some of these — along the park boundaries — are still there. In Potemkin’s time, an orchard was also laid out inside Tavrichesky Park. Immediately after construction, the park was closed and it was not until 1866 that it was opened to the public.
“Afterwards it was rumoured that Major Kovalyov’s nose was no longer to be seen strolling along Nevsky prospekt but was in the habit of walking in Tavrichesky Park, and that it had been doing this for a long time. When Khozrov-Mirza lived there, he was astonished at this freak of nature. Some of the students from the College of Surgeons went to have a look.”
Nikolai Gogol. The Nose.
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