Mariinsky Park
Landscaped hilltop park beside a Baroque palace, with an old cast-iron fountain and river lookouts.
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About this audio guide
This audio guide to Mariinsky Park in Kyiv starts with the Baroque palace glimpsed through its trees and asks how much of it is really eighteenth-century. It follows an Italian architect's design for Empress Elizabeth, an imperial residence that fell on strange times, and the nineteenth-century emperor and empress who decided to bring it back. Along the way it stops at the park's big cast-iron fountain, so listen with the palace facade in view.
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