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On the axonometric plan of St. Petersburg 1765-1773. The Large Stone Greenhouse is depicted (highlighted by a red line). The greenhouse was 70 fathoms long, 4 fathoms wide and 4 feet wide. The project of this greenhouse was created in the early summer of 1727 by garden master Cornelius Schrader. The contract for its construction was won by the Dutch civil engineer Timothy Fonarmus (Dirk van Ammers Sr.). But because of the imperial court’s move to Moscow, the construction of the greenhouse was delayed. The building was completed only in 1729 by the architect Mikhail Zemtsov. Although the greenhouse was not located in the garden, it officially belonged to the imperial Summer Gardens. The main gardener of the First and Second Summer Gardens also supervised the Big Stone Greenhouse. First it was garden master Cornelius Schrader, and then his nephew, gardener Conrad Schrader. At that time, it was the largest greenhouse in the Summer Gardens. Therefore, palm trees, bananas, agaves, cereus, and other “curious” plants were grown in it. For the winter, laurels, oranges, lemons and oranges were exhibited in the greenhouse. The list of cultivated plants contained about 150 items. If you want to know about the plants that were grown in the Big Stone Greenhouse, write about it in the comments.

During the construction of the Summer Palace of Elizabeth Petrovna, the greenhouse was preserved, as well as other wooden greenhouses and hotbeds that were nearby. The large stone greenhouse was demolished only after the construction of the Mikhailovsky Castle, when they began to equip the territory around it. It happened at the end of the 18th century. On the atlas of St. Petersburg in 1798, the greenhouse is still present.

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