1.0Gardens of Russian Museumhttps://igardens.ru/enИрина Раскинаhttps://igardens.ru/en/author/igardens/rich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content"><a href="https://igardens.ru/en/first_embankment_of_petersburg/">GAVANEC – THE FIRST EMBANKMENT OF PETERSBURG</a></blockquote>
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</script><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://igardens.ru/en/first_embankment_of_petersburg/embed/" width="600" height="338" title="“GAVANEC – THE FIRST EMBANKMENT OF PETERSBURG” — Gardens of Russian Museum" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe>https://igardens.ru/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Гаванец.jpg1280853Of course, you have been to this beautiful corner of the Summer Garden more than once. They walked along a small courtyard to the palace of Peter I, climbed the porch, but they hardly thought about how it all looked two centuries ago. Meanwhile, things were different. It is hard to imagine, but at the beginning of the 18th century there was water in the place of the courtyard – a rectangular pond. “Havanese” – they called him then. Along this creek, connected to the Fontanka, a river “fleet” moored right to the palace – boats, yachts. This is reminiscent of old engravings – a similar method of transportation in the early years of the existence of St. Petersburg was quite common. By water, for […]