🌳 Monrepos Park

Выборг, парк Монрепо, 1

A rocky landscape park of the 18th–19th centuries on the shore of the bay, with a Neoclassical manor house.

Monrepos is the only rocky landscape park in Russia; its name means "my repose" in French.
Vyborg's commandant Pyotr Stupishin began laying out a dacha here around 1770, and Prince of Württemberg gave it the name "Monrepos" in the 1780s.
From 1788 the estate was owned by Ludwig Heinrich Nicolay, president of the Academy of Sciences — his family kept the park until 1944.
The manor house, designed by Giuseppe Antonio Martinelli, is a timber log building clad in boards, in the Palladian spirit.
The statue of Väinämöinen playing the kantele was put up in 1831; after vandals damaged it in 1873 it was replaced with a zinc one by Johannes Takanen.
Ludwigstein Island became the Nicolay family necropolis in the 1820s and was closed to visitors — hence its second name, "Island of the Dead".
Mikhail Glinka and Osip Mandelstam visited the park, and Alexander II came in 1863.

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