🌳 Sheremetev Garden

A quiet garden behind the Fountain House with old trees and benches, away from the noise of Liteyny.

Peter I granted the plot on the Fontanka to Field Marshal Boris Sheremetev in 1712.
In the 1730s a large pond was dug on the plot, and the soil was used to raise the level of Liteyny Prospekt.
In the early 20th century, when apartment buildings were put up on Liteyny, the garden's Grotto, Hermitage, Orangery and Chinese Pavilion were demolished.
In the Sheremetev Palace, which the garden adjoins, Orest Kiprensky painted his famous portrait of Pushkin in 1827.

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