Garden of Venus in Peterhof

The Garden of Venus was planned and planted with fruit trees in 1721-1724. To protect it from the sea and winds, an earthen rampart was built with a retaining stone wall, whose height is more than three meters. The wall is divided by buttresses into 76 semicircular niches, and its length is almost a quarter of a kilometer. At the very top of the earthen rampart there is an alley with which you can simultaneously look at the three gardens of the Marlin ensemble and the shore of the bay.

According to the plan, the garden is a rectangle stretched along the wall and pond. It is divided in half by a longitudinal alley and divided into 6 parts by paths running across. In the XVIII century, at the very wall of the western part of the garden of Venus was a dovecote, and in the east there was a large trellis pavilion. All paths and alleys in the garden are strictly geometric.

During the Great Patriotic War, the Garden of Venus was very badly damaged, restoration continued until 1980. At the same time, a retaining wall with stone stairs and balustrades was restored. This garden is compositionally reminiscent of the Bacchus Garden: the axes of the transverse paths located in the middle of the Venus Garden visually continue in the three transverse paths of the Bacchus Garden.