🌳 Alexandrovsky Park

A shady park by the Peter and Paul Fortress with paths, home to the zoo, the planetarium and the Music Hall.

The park was laid out on the glacis of the Peter and Paul Fortress on the initiative of Finance Minister Yegor Kankrin; the project was approved in 1842.
The park is named in memory of Alexander I; the first public festivities here took place on Alexander's Day, 30 August 1845.
The People's House was built in 1898–1900 on the basis of a pavilion from the Nizhny Novgorod Exhibition — now it houses the Music Hall and the planetarium.
In 1911 a monument to the destroyer ‘Steregushchy’ was unveiled in the park.
From 1923 the park bore Lenin's name — he spoke twice in the People's House.
Gorkovskaya metro station opened right in the park in 1963.

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