🌳 Mikhailovsky Garden

A landscape garden behind the Russian Museum with a pond, lawns and Parland's ornate fence on the Savior on Blood side.

In the early 18th century the garden was called the Third Summer Garden — to distinguish it from Peter I's other two gardens.
From 1712 a residence for Catherine I was built here, and in the greenhouses the gardener grew bananas and pineapples.
Under Anna Ioannovna part of the garden was set aside as a "jagd-garten" — a place to hunt deer, boar and hares.
Parland's fence was put up in 1907, when part of the garden went to the Savior on Blood and the new canal embankment.
In 2001 a full reconstruction of the garden began, after which the summer festival "Imperial Gardens of Russia" started to be held here.

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