Tauride Garden in the city of St. Petersburg
st. Petersburg, Central district, Potemskinskaya str.
Description:
Tauride Garden is an amazingly beautiful place, which is one of the many attractions of St. Petersburg and belongs to the monuments of landscape art.
The garden is laid out around the Tauride Palace in the late XVIII century by the English gardener William Gould. Simultaneously with the foundation of the garden, the construction of the House of the Garden Master begins - a unique architectural monument that has survived to this day.
Throughout the history of its existence, the garden was closed and renamed, and in the 1800s, the barracks of the Preobrazhensky regiment were located on the southern part of the garden. The majesty of the Tauride Garden is sung in many literary works, here, in a small club, Dmitry Shostakovich brilliantly played.
On the territory of the garden there are monuments to the “Young Heroes of the Defense of Leningrad” and the great composer P.I. Tchaikovsky. Since 1960, the garden has been actively used as a recreation area for children: a stadium was built, a figure skating school was organized.
Today the garden is fully restored, a children's sports and playgrounds are built here. In the building "Games" there is a cafe and a hall for various events.