Imperial Parks of Peterhof: Alexandria, Znamenka, and Mikhailovka

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Date of formation: 1826 - 1832, Architects: A.A. Menelas, A.I. Shtakenshneider Garden master: P.I. Erler, Park area - 115 hectares The Alexandria Park is named after its first owner – Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, wife of Nicholas I. Sun, flowers, shady groves of old oaks, the "music of the water" of the stream, the expanses of meadows merging with the bay under the bottomless sky – all this is Alexandria, the family nest of four generations of the Romanov dynasty. Znamenka (formerly also known as the Znamenka Manor, Znamenka Dacha) — a former estate on the Peterhof Road, a grand ducal residence. To the west lies the "Alexandria" park, to the east — the "Mikhailovka" estate. Bounded by the Gulf of Finland to the north, and by the Peterhof Road to the south. It occupies an area of 74 hectares. Mikhailovka (also "Mikhailovskaya Dacha" and "Mikhailovskoye Estate") — a 19th-century palace and park ensemble on the Peterhof Road, which before the revolution belonged to the descendants of Grand Duke Mikhail Nikolaevich Romanov, son of Emperor Nicholas I.

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