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South Seaside Park
South Seaside Park

The park was created in the years 1960-1970 on the centenary of Lenin on site swamp. Park planned for this obazom to encompass regular and landscape planning, connected the wide alley, looked out to the Gulf of Finland. However, the plan was not implemented, as the authorities of the houses built up the park. Now alleys regular part of South Seaside Park planted with spruce, fir, linden trees, oaks, elms, horse chestnuts, weeping willows. A landscape like a part of a forest. Two artificial...

Polezhaevskaya park
Polezhaevskaya park

The history of the park dates back to 1840 when the rich St. Petersburg Lieutenant General GG Kushelёv bought the estate Buksgevdenom family In this area are seven villages -. Ligovo, Ivanovo, Staro-Panovo, Novo-Panovo, Sosnovka, Novo Koyrovka and new, and to rebuild the manor was invited by a famous architect A. Stackenschneider. Breakdown of the English landscape park has been initiated, created paths and alleys. Local attractions that are open after the Count’s death, became the...

Shuvalov park
Shuvalov park

Shuvalov park is named after the Counts Shuvalov, the owners of the manor Pargolovskaya after Peter Ivanovich was granted in 1746 the title of Count. With the death in 1903 of Prince Vorontsov, Shuvalov, the last of the younger kind of branch, land received in the inheritance of his husband sister Elizabeth, the Count Illarion Ivanovich Vorontsov-Dashkov. At that time, the park dimensions were 5799 tithes. In the 1820s. at the behest of the Countess VP Shuvalov was completed redevelopment of...

Large and small whims
Large and small whims

Meanwhile Catherine and Alexander Parks passes Podkaprizovaya road It got its name from the two facilities -. Small and Big whim. Structures are artificial mound formed with arched spans, through which the road passes. The idea belonged to the vagaries of the VI Neelova who erected them in the years 1770-1774. Grand Caprice has a grand arch in width greater than 5, and in height – 7 meters. Second, a smaller arch was built nearby, in an earthen embankment. At the top of the Grand...

Hermitage Pavilion
Hermitage Pavilion

The unusual and magnificent building, whose name translates as “place of solitude”. Construction began during the reign of Empress Elizabeth, in the early 1740s. Hermitage was on the court, surrounded by a moat. Turquoise walls and gilded decorations create a festive around the joyful atmosphere. The building is surrounded by 64 white columns. Between the columns were installed 16 statues on the facade. There have also been installed 8 statues at the base of the dome, and 4 on the...

Turkish bath
Turkish bath

Hammam was the last building on the territory of the Catherine Park. Taking the Turkish mosque in Adrianople and Turkish tradition to arrange a bath in the churches in the conquered territories, the architect Manigetti thus “said” the Turks to build this monument to the Russian-Turkish war. Construction went from 1850 to 1852. Inside the baths placed trophies from sultan’s palace in Adrianople, dating back to 16-17 centuries. Six bath rooms are decorated in a Moorish style...