🌳 Aquarium Garden by the Mossovet Theatre

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A cosy historic garden of the late 19th century where summer plays and concerts were once staged.

In 1892 the First Moscow Electrical Exhibition, opened by Savva Mamontov, was held on the site; about 100,000 people visited it.
The garden, opened by the impresario Mikhail Lentovsky on 1 July 1893, was first called “Chicago”, after the World's Fair then under way.
The garden got the name “Aquarium” in 1898 under the Frenchman Charles Aumont, apparently modelled on the garden of the same name in St Petersburg.
Zimin's private opera began here, and Vera Komissarzhevskaya performed here in 1903.
In 1903 an athletics championship took place in the garden, where in the final, a nearly 25-minute bout, Ivan Poddubny beat Petrov.
In 1910–1912 the winter theatre building housed a skating rink, and at one time an aquarium stood in one of the pavilions.

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