This beautiful garden is a former country estate, that since 18th century changed many owners and lost the bigger part of its territory. The park is named after prince Peter Lopukhin who became the owner of the estate in the early 19th century and arranged here a landscape park with ponds and channels, sculptures and pavilions. Even a herd of deer lived there at that time!
After a period of desolation, the park experienced a resurgence when it was bought by merchant Vassily Gromov, whose wooden cottage is preserved in the center of the park (now under restoration). He replanned the garden, installed greenhouses with exotic flowers, fountains, hedge mazes and other decorations, and put up a pier for pleasure boats and a passenger steamship. On the summer stage there were held concerts and theatre plays.
In the Soviet period here was a public park with a boat station and a skating rink. Gromovs cottage turned into a youth centre. And the former greenhouse was transformed into the first television broadcasting centre of Leningrad. In the middle of the 2000th the park was planned to build up, but the citizens managed to defend it, and now after reconstruction the Lopukhinsky garden is open for public again.
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