Letnii sad Petra Velikogo - Korentsvit Viktor Abramovich

The book of the famous digger of St. Petersburg is written on the materials of many years of archaeological research and archival research and is similar to an exciting detective: a beautiful syllable and a lot of interesting information make reading very fascinating. Participating in the excavation of the Summer Garden, Victor Korentsvit has collected a unique material, thanks to which you can take a fresh look at the history of the creation and development of the first regular garden in Russia. The author debunks many well-established myths and legends, finds out the origin of numerous mistakes that roam from one publication to another, often on the rights of folklore ... The text consists of two parts: "Peter's Summer Garden," "Summer Garden After Peter." The last chapter addresses the fundamental problems of restoration. The book will be interesting to all those who care about the history of the imperial capital. It contains about three hundred illustrations, in the list of names of more than six hundred names of famous and little-known ordinary participants of the great construction.