🌳 Alexander Garden

A garden along the Kremlin wall in three parts: the Eternal Flame, the Ruins Grotto and flower beds by the Manege.

The garden was laid out in 1819–1823 to a design by Osip Bove on the site of the Neglinnaya River, which was put into an underground pipe.
It was named Alexander Garden in 1856 after Alexander I, under whom Moscow was rebuilt after the fire of 1812.
Bove built the Ruins Grotto by the Middle Arsenal Tower in 1820; its masonry includes fragments of buildings destroyed in 1812.
The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier was opened on 8 May 1967: a soldier's remains were moved here from the 41st kilometre of Leningradskoye Shosse.
Guard of Honour Post No. 1 was moved from the Mausoleum to the Eternal Flame in 1997; the guard changes every hour.
The 1914 obelisk for the 300th anniversary of the House of Romanov was converted in 1918 into a monument to revolutionary thinkers, and in 2013 it got its original look back.
The garden is divided into three parts, Upper, Middle and Lower, and stretches along the Kremlin's western wall for about 865 metres.