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      🌳 Ropsha Park Ponds and the Paper Mill

      Ломоносовский р-н, пос. Ропша, Ропшинский парк

      A landscape park with a chain of ponds on hilly terrain, old trees and the remains of bridges.

      Ropsha Park Ponds and the Paper Mill
      © Екатерина Борисова · CC BY-SA 4.0
      Ropsha Park Ponds and the Paper Mill
      © Арина Старцева · CC BY-SA 4.0
      Ropsha Park Ponds and the Paper Mill
      © Wagon · CC BY-SA 4.0
      • In 1721 at Ropsha, Peter the Great and the Duke of Holstein ceremonially opened the aqueduct that sent water to the Peterhof fountains.
      • Under Elizabeth, trout for the imperial table were raised in the rectangular Fish Ponds.
      • The 25-hectare system of ponds and canals was created by the Englishman Thomas Gray — he worked at Ropsha for almost half a century.
      • The paper mill was built in 1788–1794 to a design by Yuri Felten; its machines were driven by the water of the cascading ponds.
      • Nicholas II hunted in the vicinity of Ropsha.

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      • Ropsha and Koporye: ruins and a fortress

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