Garden
Tauride Garden
Potomkinskaya Ulitsa, Sankt-Peterburg, 191015
Landscaped park of ponds and winding paths, laid out for a prince by an English gardener in the seventeen eighties.
This guide to Tauride Garden in Saint Petersburg traces the ponds and winding paths an English gardener laid out in the 1780s for Prince Grigory Potemkin, Catherine the Great's closest confidant, after he helped seize Crimea for Russia. It follows Potemkin commissioning architect Ivan Starov and gardener William Gould, then turns to a spring night in 1791 when, sensing the empress's affection cooling, he planned one last spectacle among these lawns. Walk the paths Gould laid out more than two centuries ago as you listen.
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