🌳 Shuvalov Park

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An 18th–19th-century park of the Counts Shuvalov: hills, a cascade of ponds, neo-Gothic and dachas — one of the most atmospheric in the north.

The park covers 142 hectares, 136 of which are a protected monument where new construction is banned.
After the Great Northern War Peter the Great gave these lands to his daughter Elizabeth.
The Shuvalovs owned the estate from 1746 to 1903 — from Pyotr Ivanovich Shuvalov to Prince Vorontsov-Shuvalov.
In the 1820s, at the will of Countess V. P. Shuvalova, Pyotr Erler redesigned the park — that layout survives.
The Big Palace, the Vorontsov-Dashkov dacha in the neoclassical style, was built by Stepan Krichinsky in 1912–1915.
There are 12 ponds in the park.

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