Tatyana Borisovna Dubyago is a Soviet landscape architect, a talented teacher, and a major specialist in the field of landscape gardening art. Doctor of Architecture, Professor of the Leningrad Forestry Academy. Today we celebrate 127 years since her birth (March 5, 1897, St. Petersburg – 1959, Leningrad). She made a huge contribution of her work to the Summer Garden.

At the end of the 1930s, the Directorate of Cultural and Educational Enterprises of the Leningrad City Council, to which the directorate of the Summer Garden was subordinate, brought in the architect Tatyana Borisovna Dubyago to restore the ensemble. Moreover, at the same time, urgent work was carried out to put the garden in order after the flood. Dubyago analyzed the volumetric-spatial composition of the pearl of landscape art in St. Petersburg and studied archival documents related to its history. For the first time in Russian art history (pre-revolutionary and Soviet), a historical garden was considered as an integral work of art, requiring a very careful attitude.

The peculiarity of the Summer Garden was that it was the first Russian regular garden of the European type. The result of the ensemble’s in-depth research was a candidate’s dissertation, which T. B. Dubyago defended in 1941. In the same scientific work, the concept of restoration of the garden was defined, the purpose of which is to reveal the author’s intention, preserving subsequent layers of historical and artistic value. The first work of T. B. Dubyago in the Summer Garden was a recreation of the parterre in 1940-1941 “on vacant lots along the Swan Canal” based on archival documents and the character of the flower beds of the 18th century.

Preparations for a comprehensive restoration were interrupted due to the Great Patriotic War, during which the garden ensemble was partially damaged.

After the war, in July 1945, the Leningrad restoration workshops of the Directorate for Architectural Affairs of the Executive Committee of the Leningrad City Council were created. In these workshops, under the leadership of architects L. M. Anolin and K. D. Khalturin in 1946-1948, T. B. Dubyago developed two options for restoring the Summer Garden, including general plans and individual details of the composition (options for the parterre and tree trimming). The research materials of T. B. Dubyago became the scientific and methodological basis for making a decision on the concept of this project.