Tauride Garden in Saint Petersburg (+ garden greenhouse)

Updated: 08.12.2022
Yulia Klaos

Tavrichesky Garden - one of the most famous gardens (along with Mikhailovsky garden and Summer garden) in the central part of St. Petersburg.

The Tavrichesky Garden is a monument of landscape art; a public place for walking and recreation-admission is free (free).

The Tavrichesky Garden was one of the first landscape parks in St. Petersburg.

The formation of the garden took place in 1783-1800 according to the plans of the English garden master Ulyan William Gould, on the land that the Empress Catherine II gave to her favorite Prince Grigory Potemkin-Tavrichesky for the construction of a residence.

The garden was part of the ensemble of the Tauride Palace, built for the Count in the classicist style from 1783 to 1789 by the architect I. E. Starov. Today, the headquarters of the Inter-Parliamentary Assembly of the CIS member States is located in the palace building. There are also guided tours of the halls and rooms of the palace. Learn more about the Tauride Palace and excursions…

The name "Tavrichesky", the garden and the palace were named after the title of Prince of Tavrichesky, which was granted to the temporary owner in 1787, after the annexation of the Crimea (Tavrida) to the Russian Empire.

The garden is separated from the Tauride Palace by a fence.

View of the palace from the Tauride Garden

Under Gould's direction, canals and ponds were dug in the garden, and trees and shrubs were brought from England to decorate the garden.

During the history of the garden, the layout and size of the garden changed, and the greenhouse complex (greenhouses of the Tauride Garden) was also created.

In 1866, the garden was opened to the public and turned into a city park.

Since 1930 and for 10 years, the Tavrichesky Garden has existed as a park called "culture and recreation named after the First Five-year plan". The park was damaged during the Great Patriotic War; after that, the restoration of the park began according to the project of D. S. Golgor. In 1956, the park was returned to its historical name-the Tavrichesky Garden. In 1997-2001, the garden was reconstructed, during which the garden was restored using historical materials from the late 19th century.

Today, the Tavrichesky Garden is an example of landscape art in the English style, used as a public park for walking and recreation of citizens and guests of the city.

The area of the Tavrichesky Garden is 21.1 hectares.

In the Tavrichesky Garden there are: paths and alleys for walking, places for recreation, a fountain "Boy with a Goose", a cafe, children's and sports grounds, lawns, view embankment slides, monuments, pavilions and a pond with a canal and bridges.

Monument to Sergei Alexandrochich Yesenin, installed in the Tavrichesky Garden in 1995 in honor of the centenary of the poet's birth.

The author of the monument was the sculptor Albert Sarafimovich Charkin. The monument was made at the Sculpture Plant from white Karelian marble.

The height of the monument was 2.5 meters. The monument is set on a pedestal of gray granite with a height of 0.5 meters.

Yesenin is depicted in a sitting position; along the plinth (the lower part of the pedestal) of the monument, the inscription "Sergey Yesenin"is engraved.

Cafe " Gorka»

Pavilions in the Tavrichesky Garden (Center of Physical culture, sports and health of the Central District of St. Petersburg)

Canals and a pond with motes

Monument to the heroes of the pioneers, built on the initiative of the pioneers No. 58 of the secondary school of the Zhdanovsky (now Primorsky) district of Leningrad. Sculptors: I. N. Kostyukhin and V.S. Novikov; architects: A. I. Alymov and F. A. Gepner.

The monument was erected in 1962 to mark the 40th anniversary of the All-Union Pioneer Organization and was the first monument in the city dedicated to the heroism of young pioneers who died in Leningrad during the Great Patriotic War.

The monument is a stele with a high relief height of 4.8 meters, made of Karapcheyev limestone.

On one side of the monument is a relief depicting four figures of children at the dilapidated wall of the building.

On the other side of the monument, on a stele, the inscription is carved: "To courage. The will of the brave. To their selfless exploits, to all the pioneer heroes, this monument was erected by the young hands of the Leninists."

Entrance gate to the Tavrichesky Garden from Potemkinskaya Street

Greenhouses of the Tauride Garden

Once an integral part of the Tauride Garden were greenhouses intended for the cultivation of fruit and vegetable crops, as well as heat-loving deciduous and flowering plants.

During the history, in connection with the modification of the garden, the location of greenhouses went beyond the park. The palm greenhouse, which was located on the site of the current one, fell into disrepair at the end of the 1920s, was dismantled and transported to the Botanical Garden,where it is still located. Instead, in 1935, a greenhouse was installed, brought from the royal horticulture in Tsarskoye Selo (1900, architect A. Bach), which still exists today.

Anyone can visit the greenhouse. Entrance is paid. There is a cafe and a flower shop in the greenhouse; you can spend a date, a wedding and a photo shoot among the tropical greenery. Exhibitions, concerts, master classes and creative evenings are also held in the greenhouses.

You can find out the opening hours of the greenhouse, the cost of tickets and the event poster on the official website of the greenhouse: orangery-spb.

Address of the greenhouse of the Tavrichesky Garden: 43 Shpalernaya Street.

Near the Tavrichesky Garden

On the side of Potemkinskaya Street, house No. 4, there is a former mansion built in 1910-1914 in the neoclassical style as an exhibition pavilion for the Imperial Russian Horticultural Society.

Since 1959, the building has been rebuilt in the cinema "Leningrad". Then the building was restored, and in its walls since 2014 opened the "Leningrad Center" - a show space, a center of modern entertainment culture, offering art outside the framework and formats.

Website of the Leningrad Center: leningradcenter.

At the address: Potemkinskaya street, house 4a, letter A, there is a multifunctional entertainment complex " Tavrichesky Garden» with an ice rink, fitness center, gym, cafe, restaurant, and the possibility of organizing and holding holidays and corporate events.

Website: tavrsad.