🌳 Benois Garden

Тихорецкий проспект, 17

What remains of the Benois family dacha: a garden with a pond and dacha buildings that host festivals and markets.

In the 1890s the architect Julius Benois leased this land for 50 years and by 1904 had built a farm to his own drawings.
The tower of the main house was both an ornament and a fire watchtower.
The neighbouring avenue was named after Benois and in 1952 became Tikhoretsky.
After the Revolution the farm became the "Lesnoye" state farm, which supplied the city with vegetables during the Siege.
In 2001 the dacha burned down; the house was rebuilt from archive photos, and a restaurant opened in the former cowshed.
The plot officially received the name "Benois Garden" in 2006.

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