Summer school - almost as old as Peter himself. His summer residence of the tercentenary of Peter the Great celebrated a year later than the Sank-Petersburg, in 2004.
Peter, as we know, was the more envious. Therefore, having been in Europe, he decided to create his residence in St. Petersburg is not worse than Versailles. And in 1704 begins the story of the Summer Garden. Originally the garden was created in the then fashionable regular style. Symmetrical paths, ponds, regular geometric shapes, trimmed trees, mazes and fountains.
The latter, incidentally, in the Summer Garden was about 50. And these were the first fountains in Russia. Water for them to take in an unnamed Urick, who later became known as Fontannaya river, but now the river is known to all of us as the Fontanka.
Alas, the flood of 1777 destroyed the image of Peter the Great's summer garden. Fountains, it was decided not to rebuild, the trees are no longer trimmed, and gradually the regular park Summer Garden became a landscape. In my opinion, too bad. If you catch up with Peter in the heat, go to the Summer Garden. In the shade of its trees prevails such a pleasant coolness!
In 1712, in the public gardens around the palace built for Peter I and his family. Who likes to visit historical museums, domestic, would be something to look at the summer residence of Russia's first emperor.
The world famous Summer Garden fence gave Catherine II. Until the mid-eighteenth-century summer garden bordered on the Neva River, but then the embankments, it was decided to put in granite, and the garden fence. The matter was entrusted Felten. And now we can enjoy the bars, which is considered the greatest monument of Russian classicism. It consists of 36 columns, granite for which mined on Finnish islands and openwork links, forged in the factory merchant Denisov in Tula.
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