🌳 Apothecaries' Garden (Aptekarsky Ogorod)

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Russia's oldest botanical garden, founded under Peter I, with a pond, greenhouses and centuries-old trees.

The garden was founded in 1706, when the state garden of medicinal plants was moved here from beneath the Kremlin walls.
Peter I planted a spruce, a fir and a larch here himself; according to legend, one larch survives to this day.
The first director in 1735–1742 was the botanist Traugott Gerber, after whom the gerbera flower is named.
In 1805 Moscow University bought the garden for 11,000 silver roubles.
The Palm Greenhouse was built in 1891.
The white willow growing here is considered the oldest tree in central Moscow.

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