Alexander Garden

Alexander Garden is located in the Admiralty district of St. Petersburg - the central district of the city, it surrounds the Admiralty from the west and south. The opening of the garden took place in 1874, during the reign of Alexander 2, the oak garden was planted by the imperial hand. The total area of the garden is 9 hectares of land, in the immediate vicinity of large historical and architectural monuments: Winter Palace, Admiralty, St. Isaac's Cathedral, the Copper Horseman and others. The Alexander Garden is also on the World Heritage List. Alexander Park on the Petrograd side should not be confused with Alexander Garden. Previously, the place on which the park was built was called the Admiralty meadow, there was also a boulevard. The new garden was laid in the summer of 1872 and opened exactly two years later. During the revolution of 1917, there was a mass struggle and the eradication of toponymy from the names of the city. In those troubled times, the Alexander Garden was called the Garden of Workers, and later the Garden of Workers named after Maxim Gorky. Already in 1989, another renaming of the garden to the Admiralty - wrongly named. In 1997, the historically correct name of the garden - Alexander returned. This garden was mentioned in Eugene Onegin, a novel by Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin. It was in this garden that the hero of the novel walked. On the territory of the garden there is a monument to Nikolai Przhevalsky on a camel, which is often mistaken for a monument to Stalin because of the external similarity with Przhevalsky.