🌳 Yekateringof Park

A landscape park with ponds, little bridges and islands on the site of Catherine I's country estate.

The name means "Catherine's court" in German: Catherine I's wooden palace appeared here in 1711.
On 6 May 1703, nearby at the mouth of the Neva, a detachment led by Peter I and Menshikov captured the Swedish ships Gedan and Astrild.
Peter's Palace stood for more than two hundred years and was dismantled for firewood in 1926.
In 1823 the park was redesigned at the initiative of Count Miloradovich, with pavilions designed by Auguste de Montferrand.
Yekateringof is mentioned in the novels Oblomov and The Idiot.
From 1948 the park was officially named after the 30th anniversary of the Komsomol.

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