Catherine Park
Park in St. Petersburg, Russia
The Catherine Park (Russian: Екатерининский парк) is the large landscaped area to the south of the Catherine Palace, located in the town of Tsarskoye Selo (Pushkin), 25 km south-east of St. Petersburg, Russia.
The park has two parts: a formal 18th century Dutch-style garden and a natural English garden.[1]
Formal Dutch garden
The formal garden was laid out in 1720 by masters of Dutch landscape gardening on three parterres in front of the Imperial Palace. At the same time, a reflecting pool was constructed on the third parterre, and two ponds were made on the Vangazi creek flowing from the hill: the Upper (Large) and Mill ponds (later included in the cascade of Lower ponds).
The main features in this garden are the Upper bath, Lower bath, Hermitage, Cave, Hermitage Kitchen, Moreyskaya column, Vorota gate, and Orlov gate.
English garden
The main features of the English park are: the Dutch-style boathouse the Dutch Admiralty, Hall on the Island pavilion, Chesme Column, Marble Bridge, Turkish bath, the Pyramid, Red Cascade, Gothic Gate, Ruin Tower, Orlovsky gate, Granite terrace (constructed in please of the Riding Mountain roller coaster), "Girl with a Jug" fountain, Concert Hall, Catherine Palace Kitchen Ruin, Creaky Summer House, Evening Hall, Kagul Obelisk, and Private Garden.
Gallery
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Catherine Palace -
The Church of the Resurrection in the Catherine Palace. -
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Hermitage -
Turkish bath and Chesme Column -
Marble Bridge
References
- ^ "Catherine Park | Tsarskoe Selo State Museum and Heritage Site". tzar.ru. Retrieved 2019-05-13.
- Detailed description and history from Tsarskoe Selo in 1910
- Laskin, David (2006-06-18). "History Is Perennial in the Gardens of the Great Czars". New York Times. Retrieved 2006-12-15.
External links
Media related to Catherine Park at Wikimedia Commons
- Official website
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Showplaces in Tsarskoye Selo museum complex
(architect), year of open
- Alexander Palace
- (Giacomo Quarenghi), 1796
- Babolovky Palace
- (unknown), 1796
- Catherine Palace
- (Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli), 1756
- Zapasnoy Palace
- (Adam Menelaws), 1824
- Alexander Park
- N. Zhirar, 1740
- Babolovsky Park
- (unknown), 1783
- Buferniy Park
- (unknown), 1???
- Catherine Park
- (unknown), 1783
- Fermersky Park
- (unknown), 1???
- Otdelniy Park
- (unknown), 1???
architecture
- White Tower
- (Adam Menelaws), 1821-1827
- Arsenal
- (Adam Menelaws), 1819-1834
- Ruin Tower
- (Yury Felten), 1773
- Schapel
- (Adam Menelaws), 1825-1828
- Farm
- (Adam Menelaws), 182?
- Chinese Theatre
- (Antonio Rinaldi), 1779
- Dutch Admiralty
- (Vasiliy Neelov), 1773
- Znamenskaya Church
- (Ivan Blank), 1736
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