Alexander Park (Tsarskoye Selo)

Alexander Park (known in Russian as Александровский парк) is a park in Tsarskoye Selo outside Saint Petersburg.

The park is located to the west of the Catherine Palace, and comprises almost 200 hectares. It starts off with what is left of the New Garden, a rectangle, and continues to the Cross Canal. It is divided into four smaller squares, each one with a complex geometrical lay-out.^[1]

Alexander park was developed in the 1740s^[2] but during the reign (1741-1762) of Elizabeth, the New Garden became almost completely overgrown. The most visible remains are Mount Parnassus, a small artificial hill covered in birches, and the Mushroom Bed, a convergence of eight small alleys marked by unusually-formed wrought-iron benches that replaced a gazebo in the early 19th century.^[3]

The Alexander Palace (built in 1792-1796 for the future Emperor Alexander I of Russia) is situated in the Alexander Park.

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^ "Alexander Park, Tsarskoe Selo, St. Petersburg". www.saint-petersburg.com. Retrieved 2023-06-04.
^ Prigorody Leningrada: arkhitekturnyj putevoditel' Пригороды Ленинграда: архитектурный путеводитель [Periurban Leningrad: an architectural guidebook] (in Russian). Наталия Ивановна Никулина. Стройиздат, Ленинградское отд-ние. 1982. p. 170. Retrieved 30 September 2023. Для устройства Нового сада в 1740-х годах был отведен участок между циркумференциями и Зверинцем. Разбивкой регулярного сада по проекту Н. Жирара занимались садовые мастера Қ. Шрейдер и М. Кондаков.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
^ "Alexander Park, Tsarskoe Selo, St. Petersburg". www.saint-petersburg.com. Retrieved 2023-09-30. Constructed in the reign of Elizabeth, the New Garden is now almost completely overgrown, with the most visible remains being Mount Parnassus, a small artificial hill covered in birches, and the Mushroom Bed, a convergence of eight little alleys marked by unusually shaped wrought-iron benches that took the place of a gazebo in the early 19th century.

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[:0-1] "Alexander Park, Tsarskoe Selo, St. Petersburg". www.saint-petersburg.com. Retrieved 2023-06-04.

[2] Prigorody Leningrada: arkhitekturnyj putevoditel' Пригороды Ленинграда: архитектурный путеводитель [Periurban Leningrad: an architectural guidebook] (in Russian). Наталия Ивановна Никулина. Стройиздат, Ленинградское отд-ние. 1982. p. 170. Retrieved 30 September 2023. Для устройства Нового сада в 1740-х годах был отведен участок между циркумференциями и Зверинцем. Разбивкой регулярного сада по проекту Н. Жирара занимались садовые мастера Қ. Шрейдер и М. Кондаков.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)

[3] "Alexander Park, Tsarskoe Selo, St. Petersburg". www.saint-petersburg.com. Retrieved 2023-09-30. Constructed in the reign of Elizabeth, the New Garden is now almost completely overgrown, with the most visible remains being Mount Parnassus, a small artificial hill covered in birches, and the Mushroom Bed, a convergence of eight little alleys marked by unusually shaped wrought-iron benches that took the place of a gazebo in the early 19th century.

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