Squares, gardens and parks in St. Petersburg and suburbs

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01.03.2019 06:38

A collection of photos for several year

St. Petersburg

Alexandrovsky Park in winter

Grid of the Summer Garden in the rays of sunsets.
The whole embankment at this moment shines with gold

Lattice of the Summer Garden is considered to be the most beautiful architectural solution.

Updated Summer Garden.

Lamp.
In the festive backlighs.

Catherine II on Ostrovsky Square, the actual Kat'kin Garden, the Alexandrinsky Theater and the remnants of New Year's luxur

photo from a helicopter
Summer Garden.
A shot in the direction of the bay, the Summer Garden and the Field of Mars. Engineer Castle.

Church in Pulkovo Park.

Alexander Nevsky Monastery, photo from a helicopter, in the foreground is the Metropolitan Garden.

Tauride Garden.

Admiralty.

Throwing leaves.
The standard autumnal entertainment of young people is tossing leaves (until the evil wipers are removed.

St. Nicholas Naval Cathedral (Naval Cathedral of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker and Theophany) is the northern facade from the side of St. Nicholas Garden.

Pushkin

Lattice element of Alexander Park.

Chinese bridge.
One of the Chinese bridges in the Alexander Park (New Garden), Pushkin.

Cross channel, birchs. View from the Dragon Bridge in the Alexander Park.

Dragons Bridge.
The fascination with China, characteristic of the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries, was reflected not only in the pavilions of the Aleksandrovsky Park, but also in the three bridges of the New Garden, which were transferred through the Kresty Canal - Draconian, Greater China and Krestov

A copy of the sculpture "Discoball Unlike the original attributed to Myron, this statue has differences: the most, perhaps noticeable, is that the head is down, not turned sideway.

The girl at the broken jug.
The fountain "Thrush", "Tsarskoye Selo statue" or "Girl with a jug" - the plot was J. La Fontaine's fable "Thrush, or Jug with milk". This is a copy, installed in 1990. The original is kept in the museum reserve, he miraculously survived the war and occupation, being buried in the ground before the arrival of the Germany.

Tower-ruin with artificial hill and the Gothic gate. The most amazing structure of the Catherine Park, the creation of the architect Yuri Felten in honor of the victories of the Russian army in the Russian-Turkish war in 1768-1774. The building-monument was conceived as the remains of an ancient Turkish fortress, consisting of a giant tower and part of the fortress wall, cut through by an arcs.

Turkish sauna.
The last, by the time of construction, the pavilion in Ekaterinisky park of Tsarskoye Selo The Turkish bath is considered a replica of one of the churches of Andrianople, taken by Russian troops in 1828, in memory of that war, the pavilion was built. In the background - the Chesme Column - the memory of the victory at Chesma.

Turkish sauna.

Chesme Column.
Majestic and strict column in honor of the glorious victory of the Russian fleet at Chesma.

Pavilion "Grotto" and the Cameron Gallery in the backgroun

Pond in Catherine Park.

Arbor over the arcs.

Ladder in the rock.

Arch in the rock.
The so-called Big Caprice in Alexander Park.

Large and Small Whims artificial arches in the mount.

Peterhof

Marly Pond and Marly Palace.

Sector Pond and Marly Palace.

Neptune Fountain.

Nymphs of the fountain "Samson" Grand Cascade.

Peterhof Lions.

Arc.
The perfect photo for Instagram: the diagonal, the pathos of the blunt composition, ass.

Pavlovsa

Emancipatio..
Yes, I am for emancipation.

River, bridge, steps.
Behind the Gatchina Palace.

Dilapidated bridge.
One of the bridges in Gatchina Park.

Pavlovsk

And I'm in Soviet times, oh-oh
Four grannies on the bench. Autumn, Pavlovsk.

Bridge in the park
One of the bridges in Pavlovsk park (Pig-iron bridge). Not even at the height of the tourist season a lot of people walked around the park.

Boy
Boy without brakes and without brains. His parents are the same, because they did not make a remark.

Fountain of the Pavlovsky Music Station.
All that remains of the Pavlovsky music station.

The Temple of Friendship is a pleasant pavilion in the style of classicism, built by Charles Cameron. A reciprocal gift from Pavel Petrovich and Maria Feodorovna to Catherine II, in gratitude for Pavlovsk land.

Cast iron bridge.
Pig-iron bridge through Slavyanka river. The creation of Karl Rossi, a nice small bridge with interesting grilles and vases.

Temple of Friendship.

Cast iron bridge.

Pig-iron bridge through Slavyanka.

Centaur Bridge.

Pavlovsky Palace - view from the park.

Lion sculpture.
The poor lion went to World War II.

Alley Pavlovsky Park. In the distance - the sculpture "World".

Sculpture "Peace".

Temple of Friendship.

Viskontev bridge over the Slavyanka in Pavlovsk parl.

View of the Temple of Friendship, golden autumn.

Oranienbau

Pavilion Rollercoaste.

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