🌳 Alexander Garden

A garden along the Admiralty with paths, busts of cultural figures and a big fountain in the middle.

The garden opened in 1874 and was named after Alexander II; it covers 9 hectares.
At the opening Alexander II planted a young oak himself opposite the portal of St Isaac's Cathedral — the oak still stands inside the fence.
In Soviet times it was the Workers' Garden (named after Gorky from 1936); the historic name was restored in 1997.
A bronze camel lies by the 1892 bust of Przhevalsky; because the explorer looked like Stalin, tourists asked: “Why is Stalin with a camel?”
The height of the central fountain's jet changes with the music, which is why it is called ‘dancing’.
The busts of Gogol and Lermontov by the fountain were put up in 1896, and Glinka's in 1899.

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