🌅 Parnas Hill

Шуваловский парк

An artificial hill made by serfs from the soil dug out of the "Cap" and "Napoleon's Shirt" ponds; the summit has a view of the lake.

The hill apparently got its name in the second half of the 18th century, in the fashion for antiquity: Parnassus is the mountain of Apollo and the Muses.
It used to look out on the Gulf of Finland; today, in clear weather, you can see the dome of St Isaac's Cathedral.
During the war a communications command post of the Leningrad Front was dug inside the hill.
In October 1991 two children were buried here, and part of Parnas was dug away during the rescue.

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