Императорский Ботанический сад Петра Великого / The Imperial Botanical Garden of Peter the Great
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Channel: Nigel Fowler Sutton · 2017 · Travel & Events
Дореволюционная Россия на фотографиях Императорский Ботанический сад Петра Великого (Аптекарский остров) Санкт-Петербург. 1912-1915 Pre-revolutionary Russia in photoghraphs The Imperial Botanical Garden of Peter the Great (Aptekarsky Island) St. Petersburg 1912-1915 Music: Tarantella by Anton Arensky The Botanical Garden of St. Petersburg is one of the oldest Botanical Gardens in Russia.The Garden was founded in 1714 by order of Peter the Great as the Apothecary's Garden, and soon became a centre for horticultural research that was the equal of any other in Europe in terms of the importance and size of its collection. Originally the Apothecary's Garden focused mainly on growing medicinal herbs, but soon people began bringing saplings and seeds of rare and exotic plants - for which a greenhouse was specially built. Expeditions to various parts of the earth regularly augmented the Botanical Garden's collection with new sorts of trees, shrubs, flowers, and other plants......
