Already feel like spring is approaching?

Spring means not only swollen buds on the trees, green grass on the lawns, blooming primroses in the Mikhailovsky Garden, but also the continuation of the Russian Museum’s “All-Russian Oak Forest of Emperor Peter the Great” program.

The program acquired its current form in 2014, when the certification commission of the All-Russian Program “Trees – Monuments of Living Nature” awarded the status of Tree – Monument of Living Nature to the oak tree in the Summer Garden, in the planting of which, according to legend, Peter I took part.

The oak tree in the Summer Garden is currently 373 years old.

To date, more than 500 oak trees have been planted under the Program both in Russia and abroad.