How the "Imperial Gardens of Russia" are arranged and why you can't stick a shovel in the Mikhailovsky Garden. "Flower Assembly" in the Summer Garden Flower Exhibition in the Mikhailovsky Park

This week in the Mikhailovsky Garden at the Russian Museum the next annual festival "Imperial Gardens of Russia - 2016" is being held. This year, its main leitmotif is the world of childhood.
Throughout the park, there are children's playgrounds and compositions created according to children's drawings, an exhibition of posters "Flowers of Childhood" and other objects related to the theme of children.

The center of the children's art project "There on Unknown Paths ..." is the Butter Meadow, in the center of which is a historic pedunculate oak. He is 278 years old, he is much older than the Mikhailovsky Palace. A "golden chain" appeared on it, and a learned cat with a book in its paws settled down next to it.

Immediately there is a mermaid descending from the branches, unprecedented animals, Baba Yaga, Koschey, Chernomor and other heroes of Pushkin's tales.






Next to them is the Blooming Fountain composition, and a little further "Dormanron and Kouafanshuk"




(This photo is not mine)

Dormanron was invented by the French writer and artist Claude Ponty, and it was realized in the form of a plant composition from decorative and edible plants by the French Institute in Russia in conjunction with the Vavilov Institute.
Glass is presented at the Rossi Pavilion in the Transparency project.










On the other side of the track - the composition "Dream of the Dragon".




I walk further along the Moika, on which a whole "flotilla" of ships is lined up, and I look at the "Game of Light", "Moon Flowers", "Silhouettes".






Then I turn resolutely to the Pond and - oh, joy! - I get to the Cat Museum.






The author of these "cat-pebbles" is Elena Gromyko. Today they somehow ended up on the ground, although a few days ago they proudly sat on pedestals.
Behind them, a whole army of photo-cats is proudly sitting on easels.


Photo by Nikolai Ivanov.

And this is a funny house of insects and behind it is the House of the Hobbit.




From the opposite side, visitors strive to get into an unusual car.


Romantics are attracted by the composition "The sea is calling".


Where was this sailing ship sailing? Of course, to the Desert Island for a chest with jewels and gold coins.


And at this point I was caught by rain with a thunderstorm. I still have time to run across to the next path, where I find a version of the classic flower bed of the 19th century.


There is a beautiful dining table at the corner of the walkway, but the intensifying rain prevents them from being admired.


I walk briskly to the exit and suddenly I notice the Gnome's House. I can't walk by without taking a picture, but the downpour does not allow me to take a good picture. This is where my trip ends, especially since the battery in the camera says goodbye. It is a pity that I was not able to see the entire exhibition, the weather did not allow me to do this.

What I didn't like this time was very few flowers in the flower beds and lawns.
Finally, I will show you a few compositions. I wish there were a lot more of them.










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See you again, friends. Our festival and my good friend Nikolay Ivanov give you a traditional smile.

The Mikhailovsky Garden in St. Petersburg is one of the most popular and landscaped parks located in the very center of the city. In this rare monument of landscape architecture of the 18th - early 19th centuries, two different styles of landscape art are uniquely combined in one territory - regular or French, and landscape, English. The park is also characterized by the architectural harmony of the embodied plan of the great architect Karl Rossi - the unity of the Mikhailovsky Palace building and the natural landscape of the Mikhailovsky Garden. The garden is protected as a federal cultural heritage site.

Area: 10 hectares

Where is

The territory of the garden is limited by Sadovaya Street, the Moika River and the Griboyedov Canal. To the south of the Mikhailovsky Garden is the Mikhailovsky Palace, as well as the buildings of the Ethnographic Museum and the Benois Corps. The Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood is located near the northwestern part of the Mikhailovsky Garden.

Entrance to the garden

Visitors can enter from Sadovaya Street or from the embankment of the Griboyedov Canal. Entrance fee: free.

History

Mikhailovsky Garden appeared at the beginning of the 18th century, by decision of Peter I, at the same time as the Summer Garden. At first it was called the Third Summer Garden, because the first two gardens belonged to the tsar, and in this they began to build a castle for the tsarina, Catherine I. The master plan of the three Summer Gardens was completed by the order of the sovereign by the architect Jean-Baptiste Leblon. In those years, the territory of the garden was more extensive than today, and the planners had to drain the site, constructing additional canals to drain water.

On the present site of the Rossi pavilion, a compact Catherine Palace with a golden spire was built, which was called the "Golden Mansion". Fruit trees and berry bushes were planted around, and pineapples and bananas were grown in greenhouses. Nightingales caught in three provinces were brought to the garden. Alleys in the form of green corridors alternated with ponds in which live fish were bred.

Anna Ioanovna III, having reigned, started a large-scale reconstruction of the garden, allocating a large place for hunting wild boars, hares and deer - the yagdgarten. For hunters, special galleries were built, the stone walls of which protected from accidental bullets. With her, a soap-room appeared in the garden - an imperial bath with a fountain and rooms for rest.

Years later, Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli built a Summer Palace and a labyrinth garden with the main alley leading to Nevsky Prospect for Empress Elizabeth Petrovna. The garden was laid out in the then fashionable regular style, with cruciform alleys, clipped trees, fountains and marble statues. In the garden, flower beds were also laid out and pavilions, gazebos and slides with swings were installed.

Since 1817, the construction of the Mikhailovsky Palace began, after which the garden was called Mikhailovsky. It was again rescheduled, trying to give it a more natural, "landscape" character. Instead of fish ponds, an English lawn appeared; vegetable gardens were replaced by paths for horse walks. And on the site of the Golden Mansion, the architect Rossi built a pavilion-pier for small boats of the imperial family.

The Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich settled in the palace with his wife Elena Pavlovna, who often organized extensive high-society celebrations in the garden. The Mikhailovsky Garden was opened to the public in 1898, 3 years after it was handed over to the Museum of Emperor Alexander III. True, according to the sign on the gate, not everyone could visit the garden: soldiers and dogs were forbidden to enter.

Forged lattice of the Mikhailovsky Garden

In 1881, the People's Will mortally wounded Emperor Alexander II on the embankment of the Catherine Canal, near the Mikhailovsky Garden. In memory of the tragedy, the Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ, known as the "Savior on Spilled Blood", was built on this site. In order to separate the temple from the Mikhailovsky Garden, an artistic lattice was made in the Art Nouveau style, which is an interweaving of fancy large flowers and leaves, decorated with gilded details. Forged elements of the fence alternate with columns, flowerpots and urns, and a memorial plaque is placed at the site of Alexander II's wound.

Video review of the fence of the Mikhailovsky Garden

Modern garden life

In 1999, the Mikhailovsky Garden was transferred to the State Russian Museum. Since then, there has been a phased reconstruction of the garden with the aim of returning it to the appearance planned by Carl Rossi. Over the years, new trees have been planted, and paths that distort the original intention of the architect have been removed. A bust of Karl Rossi appeared near the Rossi pavilion, and busts of artists Karl Bryullov and Alexander Ivanov were installed in the garden, copying the original sculptural works of the 19th century.

Events in the Mikhailovsky Garden

The garden regularly organizes mass events - concerts and festivals. Every summer in the Mikhailovsky Garden, the summer festival "Imperial Gardens of Russia" is held, which demonstrates original ideas in the field of landscape design. Members of the British royal family who are related to the Russian imperial house have come to see the works of professionals and amateur gardeners.

In 2018, for the first time, the Summer Garden, not the Mikhailovsky Garden, was chosen as the venue for the XI Festival "Imperial Gardens of Russia" (from 21 to 27 June). According to the organizers, the transfer of the venue to the beloved garden of Peter the Great is symbolic for the celebration of the 300th anniversary of the publication of Peter's decree on holding assemblies. In June 2019, in the Mikhailovsky Garden, you could show your creative abilities in creating costumes as part of the inclusive project "Art Transformation".

Exhibitions in the Mikhailovsky Garden

In 2017, as part of the Imperial Gardens of Russia festival, an exhibition of Russian avant-garde was held in the garden. And in May-June 2018, visitors to the Mikhailovsky Garden could admire the author's benches painted by artists who participated in the international action "Shop for Peace".

How to get to the Mikhailovsky Garden

The garden is located in the central area of ​​St. Petersburg, so it can be reached from different parts of the city by choosing the most convenient public transport route.

Not far from the entrance to the Mikhailovsky Garden, there are stops for surface public transport: bus: No. 3, No. 22, No. 27, No. 49, K212, trolley: No. 5, No. 22 and tram: № 3.

From Metro Gostiny Dvor"(Nevsko-Vasileostrovskaya or green line): exit towards Gostiny Dvor, onto Sadovaya Street. Go straight, after about 350 m. On the left you will see the grating of the Mikhailovsky Garden.

From metro station "Nevsky Prospect"(Moscow-Petrogradskaya or blue line): go towards the Griboyedov Canal, walk along the embankment past the Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood. Then walk along the fence of the Mikhailovsky Garden to the entrance.

From Palace Square: go to the side of the Moika river embankment near the Pevcheskiy bridge. After crossing the bridge, turn left. Then follow the embankment, skirting Konyushennaya Square, to the second Garden Bridge.

On car: the garden is located opposite the Mikhailovsky Castle, by car you need to go to Sadovaya Street.

On Taxi: It is convenient to get to the Mikhailovsky Garden using taxi-ordering applications operating in St. Petersburg (Yandex. Taxi, Uber, Gett, Maxim).

Video review of the Mikhailovsky Garden

Mikhailovsky Garden on google-panorama

The Imperial Gardens of Russia International Festival of Gardening Art is an annual large-scale cultural event held by the Russian Museum and on its territory - in the Mikhailovsky Garden.

The first international festival "Imperial Gardens of Russia" was held from May 30 to June 3, 2008 in the Mikhailovsky Garden and was timed to celebrate the 110th anniversary of the Russian Museum. The main organizer of the festival was the Russian Museum with the support of the Charity Fund of His Royal Highness Prince Michael of Kent and the Union of Russian Gardeners. Since then, the festival has become an annual holiday for residents and guests of the city, as well as one of the most significant events in the cultural life of St. Petersburg.

The central event of the festival is the holding of a landscape exhibition-competition. Participants of the competition create landscape compositions on a given theme on the sections of the Mikhailovsky Garden specially allocated for the exposition. Every year the collective of the working group of the festival develops a new topic and task for the participants of the exhibition-competition, and also forms the scenario plan of the entire festival, which also includes a variety of cultural, entertainment and educational activities.

The festival is designed for a wide audience. First of all, these are the townspeople and guests of the city, as well as specialists in the field of landscape and garden and park art. In addition to the landscape exhibition-competition, the festival program includes an extensive cultural and entertainment activity: concerts, master classes, lectures, excursions, fashion shows, special programs designed for children of different ages, as well as for people and children with disabilities.

The Mikhailovsky Garden was chosen as the venue for the festival, and this is no coincidence. The Mikhailovsky Garden is part of the unique architectural and artistic complex of the Russian Museum and is an outstanding monument of landscape gardening, located in the historical center of St. Petersburg.

The Imperial Gardens of Russia festival has no fixed dates, but traditionally takes place during the White Nights in the first half of June and lasts ten days.

The Imperial Gardens of Russia festival is the first landscape festival in Russia and currently the only one in the Northwest. It stands among such famous landscape events of the world as: the Chelsea Flower Show, London; Hampton Court Palace Flower Show, England; International "Gardens Festival" in Chaumont-sur-Loire, France, etc.

The festival is not a commercial project, it, first of all, has a socially significant and educational role, and is provided with the support of sponsors.

The development of the landscape festival is extremely important for the tourist destination, improving the ecological situation in the metropolis, creating a school of gardening art and landscape design, and for the sustainability of the urban environment. All this together creates a serious potential for the development of culture on the one hand and the economic development of the city as a whole. High attendance and a positive response in the media suggests that this festival project of the museum is necessary for the development of both a tourist destination and environmental awareness among residents and guests of the city. Cultural events that create a highly aesthetic environment and carry educational ideas cannot exist without the support of socially responsible business. And during the years of the festival, he has already acquired permanent partners and sponsors who support the festival even in difficult times.

The festival "Imperial Gardens of Russia" is included in the annual calendar of events of the Committee for Culture of St. Petersburg.

In 2013, the festival was awarded the Highest Russian award in the field of landscape architecture, the Russian National Prize for Landscape Architecture in the EVENT OF THE YEAR nomination.

In 2014 he took first place in the final of the NATIONAL PRIZE in the field of event tourism "Russian Event Awards" in the category BEST PROJECT IN THE FIELD OF CULTURE

For the Russian Museum, as the world's largest collection of works of national fine art, the festival is of particular importance in solving such cultural and educational tasks as fostering interest in historical territories and reviving the traditions of Russian garden and park art. With the opening of a new "exhibition hall" in the open air, the Russian Museum has an additional opportunity to realize its creative potential.

The Imperial Gardens of Russia landscape design festival is taking place in St. Petersburg: in mid-June, in the Mikhailovsky Garden of the Russian Museum, you can observe landscape compositions created by architects from different countries (49 landscape workshops from Russia, Germany, Finland, Spain take part in the festival this year , France, Denmark), attend master classes, listen to lectures and applaud the performances of theater studios, ensembles and circles.

Mostly - for children, because this year the theme of the "Imperial Gardens", which are breaking under the walls of the Russian Museum for the ninth time, is "Flowers of Life". What is really meant is clear to everyone. The exhibition is dedicated to children.

From the very beginning, the festival was not lucky with the weather: for a gala concert in the garden with an icy wind from the Gulf of Finland and 10 degrees Celsius, the smarter guests appeared in down jackets. Those who dreamed of a holiday cursed their craving for beauty and tried to warm themselves with brandy, neglecting the bartender's attempts to make cocktails: in lace dresses there is no time for ice cubes in transparent glasses.

“It's much warmer on the stage,” said the president of the Sistema charity foundation (the festival has been held for many years with the financial support of the foundation). The guests believed. However, the children in chrysanthemum costumes, who danced the natural "Waltz of the Flowers" by Tchaikovsky on the occasion of the holiday, and the children's choir, who sang songs that you yourself bawled while swinging on a swing, were still sorry.

The frozen children were carried away to the warm Russian Museum. Responsible adults, who had nowhere to hide, took their place.

Only the director of the Russian Museum was not cold, it seems: in a five-minute speech, he cheerfully came up with three themes for future festivals. The next topic, apparently, will be music. It's a pity - abstract themes, like the themes of essays, provide such a wide scope for creativity that artists scatter in different directions and often run too far from the viewer.

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This happened with the current festival. “Children” can be anything. “Topical topics of the festival will be the issues of studying, preserving nature and the environment, new approaches to organizing children's play spaces in cities, and demonstrating modern play equipment. Particular attention will be paid to social projects for children with disabilities ”, - read the press release of the festival. All this is there. The charitable foundations of St. Petersburg take part in the festival (including "Anton is near here", "Teplyi Dom", "Alyosha" and others).

Children's playgrounds and compositions based on children's drawings have appeared in the Mikhailovsky Garden (Koschey playing the guitar for Baba Yaga, a taxi cat invented by a 4-year-old child, a nibbler, a cat on a chain and a Mermaid on an oak tree), an exhibition of posters "Flowers of Childhood" and other objects directly or symbolically related to the theme of children. “Read the explanations,” urges Artem Parshin, chairman of the jury of this festival, landscape architect of the Aptekarsky Ogorod Botanical Garden. You really need to read: the meaning of some compositions is difficult to understand not only for children, but also for adults.

And if children can invent their own meanings, then those whose childhood ended long ago, painfully do not understand: what do the flowers have to do with it?

There weren't enough flowers. Out of competition, one of the best compositions was demonstrated - "Dormanron" by the French Institute in St. Petersburg, a fluffy green unknown animal (actually a sea turtle), invented by the French writer and illustrator Claude Ponty and executed in the technique of topiary art.

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The second place in the category "Flower arrangements" was given to the composition "Flower of Happiness", created by the team of the Maryino estate. A great idea of ​​the Russian Museum branch in Malaga was to create a Garden of Five Senses with plants that stimulate sensory perception (those that you can see, touch, smell, and even taste).

However, garden sculptures, even very cute ones, cannot satisfy the city dweller's craving for the living and the beautiful. It's pointless to come here hoping to get ideas for your own personal plot (however, you should pay attention to the permanent garden compositions created for the Mikhailovsky Garden - they are good). What's the matter? Really in children?

“Exhibition gardens in such a festival mode, when the gardens are assembled for a short time - and they are assembled as a constructor, the plants arrive in their containers - this is a completely special genre of garden art,” explains Artem Parshin. -

This means that you are building the garden as a mise-en-scène during a theatrical performance.

It doesn't matter to you what is behind the scenes, it is important to you what the person sees from the audience. Therefore, the main thing is that the viewer does not see white threads, does not see the seams; what is under the surface - you are not interested. "

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According to the chairman of the jury, in this sense, the compositions of the Imperial Gardens should be treated with condescension, since architects face a serious limitation: in the Mikhailovsky Garden (which is a monument of gardening art, a monument of landscape architecture) you cannot stick a shovel into the ground. You can't dig here. Therefore, everything that happens here is happening above the surface, above the lawn.

“This affects the appearance of what is being built here. According to the laws of the genre, plants are in containers, they are not planted. Authors who do not pay attention to this feature, put the pots of plants directly on the ground, - says Parshin. - You see dirty plastic pots, which is absolutely unacceptable. If this is an exhibition garden, this is a special genre, and you need to act within this genre. When the seams are visible, when it is clear how this is done, this is wrong. You just need to understand the specifics of the site - the festival is already nine years old, and it will not leave anywhere, this site is already loved. This means that you need to think in advance about how you will hide what should not be visible, show what should be visible on the surface. All competent work here is raised above the surface of the earth. "

One of these works - perhaps the most interesting one - has already received the Grand Prix of the festival. This is the composition "Living water, or Inside is not the same as outside", created by the AFA landscape group.

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Outwardly, it is an irregular green hill with purple flower beds. Inside there is a rounded shallow reservoir where you can play and splash, if the weather permits, and most importantly, there is an observation tower with a telescope and an Archimedes screw, an amazing piece that, using a wheel and a screw chute, allows you to pump water out of the reservoir. It is pleasant to spin it for both adults and children: for this, you simply must definitely give the Grand Prix.

The eleventh annual festival of landscape and floristic art, which is usually held in the Mikhailovsky Garden, will move to the Summer Garden this season. This was announced on Tuesday, June 5, by the director of the State Russian Museum Vladimir Gusev, the correspondent of "Dialogue" reports.

“300 years ago - in 1718 - Peter I issued a decree on holding Assemblies, and the first of them was held in the Summer Garden. This festival of ours will be called "Flower Assembly". This is how we remind about the history of Russia: it is important for us that the "Imperial Gardens" do not turn into just a glamorous festival of flowers, but still have a museum basis. The Summer Palace of Peter I is the place from which a new page of Russian statehood began. They are the same age as St. Petersburg, and the gardens also began with St. Petersburg, "Gusev said.

According to him, this year the nature of the festival will change - when it was held in the Mikhailovsky Garden, the exposition was based on installations and landscape compositions, while now the emphasis will be on the use of fresh flowers. For this reason, the dates of the festival have been changed - it will take place not at the beginning, but at the end of the month, from the 21st to the 27th, as the flowers should bloom. The place also imposes its own restrictions - in the Summer Garden there are no extensive lawns on which to place compositions, therefore the organizers will have to decorate - carefully, since the appearance of the garden is under the protection of the KGIOP - the available elements of its decoration: hedges, fountains ... By the way, guests of the festival a lot of interesting innovations await.

“For example, we plan to make the Tsaritsyn fountain perfumed. This has never happened in the history of Russia, because there were only four such fountains in the world, and the first of them appeared in 1900 at an exhibition in Paris. We hope this experiment succeeds, and tonight ( on Tuesdays the Summer Garden is traditionally closed for cleaning and maintenance - IA "Dialogue") there will just be a "fitting" of the fragrance. This will be an exclusive, unusual event: in fact, Peter I loved just such, and the Summer Garden was for him an experimental platform, where he tried out various innovations brought from Europe (mainly from Holland). Then he already built Strelna, and then Peterhof, but the Summer Garden is the progenitor of all gardens of the European tradition [in Russia], "said Olga Cherdantseva, the chief curator of the gardens of the Russian Museum and the head of the Imperial Gardens of Russia festival.

In addition, 50 photographs of famous European palace gardens will be displayed on the main alley. The photo project is being held under the auspices of the Association for the Conservation of the Heritage of European Gardens.

“Probably, it would be easier for us to hold the festival on a knurled one, in the Mikhailovsky Garden - but the working group of the festival decided to postpone it this year. As the person responsible for the preservation of the Summer Garden, I took this initiative with caution - but we will work, and I think it will turn out well. The Summer Garden is not Mikhailovsky, here we cannot afford to make landscape installations on lawns: this is simply impossible. Therefore, it was decided to make small flower arrangements; the main fountains and bosquets will be decorated. All this will have to be fixed very sparingly - no glue, no drilling, no interference at all with structural elements. I think that landscape workers have their own tricks, "said Sergei Rennie, head of the Sady branch of the Russian Museum.

“Whether we will continue to hold it there, or arrange it in both places - we'll see how much funds are enough,” Gusev added.

Note that the entrance to the Summer Garden on these days will be paid - a ticket will cost 500 rubles (on the website of the gardens of the Russian Museum, the price is now 430 rubles, or 160 - for preferential categories). In addition to the fact that this will partially return the funds spent on the festival, the management of the State Russian Museum intends in this way to make sure that there will be no excessive influx of visitors at the festival (although the garden already receives a million people a year). In addition, for three days before the start of the Imperial Gardens of Russia festival (June 18-20) and two days after its end (June 28-29), the Summer Garden will be completely closed due to the need to mount and dismantle the decorations, respectively.

“Perhaps we will keep some compositions for ourselves - especially, probably, from social projects that will be placed in the French Parterre bosquet,” Rennie said.