Mount "Parnassus"

The "Parnassus" hill is located in one of the four identical squares in the New Garden of the Alexandrovsky Park. It was built up in 1755 during the expansion and deepening of the ponds and the Cross Canal. Trees were planted on it, and a few years later there were plans to erect a gazebo, but the idea was never realized. Such hills, conical in shape with a flat top and a spiral road lined with trees winding along the slopes, were constructed in Renaissance-era parks and 18th-century formal gardens. The name of the hill is taken from mythology. Parnassus was the name of a high mountain in Greece, considered the center of the earth. At its foot stood the Delphic temple with its famous oracle, and on the mountain itself, according to ancient Greeks, lived Apollo and the Muses, patrons of the arts. In the 1810s, there was an idea to build a pavilion on the summit of Parnassus, but none of the projects prepared by Neelov, Ruskaya, Stasov, Geste, and Gonzago were realized.

Sources:

https://pushkin.spb.ru/encycl/parks/mount-parnassus.html

https://www.tzar.ru/objects/alexandrovskypark/newgarden/parnas