Alexandrovsky Park in St. Petersburg

On the Petrograd side of the northern capital is one of the oldest parks in the city. Architects were instructed to take up its creation even during the reign of Emperor Alexander the First. But the real work on the arrangement of the park began already with the replacement of Nikolai. In this period of the history of the Russian state the famous Peter and Paul Fortress, with which St. Petersburg once began, had completely lost its military significance. And Alexander Park was located on its glacis - so in the professional language of military engineers called the mandatory open space in front of the fortifications, which should be well shot from walls and towers.

Alexander Park: planning and architecture

The opposite part of the Peter and Paul Fortress from the Neva is called Kronverk. It was the geometry of this fortification structure that determined what the Alexander Park looks like today. Its radial alleys converge to the Kronverk of the Peter and Paul Fortress. This arrangement was very typical for the capital of the Russian Empire, where there are very few accidents, and everything is subject to strict geometry. It remains to be regretted that in the future the architects' intention was violated, and the Alexander Park in St. Petersburg reached our days in a highly transformed form. Usually, this disregard for historically established planning is characteristic of the Soviet era, but in this case it began at the turn of the twentieth century. It was painfully attractive to have an open place in the very center of the capital. And Alexandrovsky Park lost its former integrity of its planning, subjected to unsystematic building, the characteristic elements of which became such buildings as the Orthopedic Institute and the People's House. And later, already in the thirties of the twentieth century, they were joined by the Lenin Komsomol Theater, now known as the Baltic House. With this building, the Alexander Park was largely cut off from the Kronverksky Canal embankment. But despite all the transformations that happened to him during two centuries of his existence, he was preserved as the oldest green massif in the center of Petersburg. For many years it continues to be one of the favorite places for walking both native Petrograders and numerous guests of the northern capital. In the early 2000s, a significant amount of work was done to improve the park and develop its engineering infrastructure. The territory was cleared of extraneous rubbish, planted a large number of trees and ornamental shrubs.

Alexander Park. How to get there?

Over a long period of time, the beloved place of the townspeople was sufficiently cut off from the city. But since 1963 the question of how to get to the Alexander Park has ceased to be relevant. Directly on its territory there was a metro station Gorkovskaya of the Moscow-Petrogradskaya line.