🌳 Catherine Garden

Санкт-Петербург, пл. Островского

A garden on Nevsky with a monument to Catherine II, at whose foot stand figures of her associates.

The garden in front of the theatre was laid out in summer 1832 by the master gardener Yakov Fyodorov.
The monument to Catherine II, designed by Mikhail Mikeshin, was unveiled in 1873.
The statue of the empress was sculpted by Matvey Chizhov, the figures of her associates by Alexander Opekushin.
Nine figures stand around the pedestal, among them Potemkin, Suvorov, Rumyantsev, Derzhavin and Dashkova.
In the early 1930s there were plans to replace Catherine with a statue of Lenin, but the monument survived.
The bronze Suvorov's sword was stolen and has been recreated twice.
Locals call the garden "Katkin sadik" (Katka's little garden).

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