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THE GRAND KREMLIN PUBLIC GARDEN |

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Tainitsky Gardens

The Grand Kremlin Public Garden

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The Grand Kremlin Public Garden

The Grand Kremlin Public Garden is situated in the upper part of the Tainitsky Gardens. In the late 19th century the above-mentioned memorial to Alexander II, the “Liberator Tsar” who was assassintated in 1881, was built here. The monument to the reform-minded tsar, whose reign brought decades of rapid progress to the Russian state, could be seen from the opposite bank of the Moscow River.

The centerpiece of the memorial was a life-size bronze monument to the emperor, sheltered by a canopy of dark red Karelian granite. The roof of the canopy was covered with specially fitted gilted bronze sheets with green enamel. An arched openwork gallery surrounded the monument on three sides. Its vaults boasted 33 mosaic portraits of Russian rulers, from Prince Vladimir the Baptizer to Emperor Nicholas I, made using designs by artist P.V. Zhukovsky. The monument, built using donations from the public, was dismantled in 1918. The deserted colonnade remained on the high hill overlooking the Moscow River until the late 1920s.

In the Soviet era, a monument to Vladimir Lenin stood in the public garden leading to Ivanovskaya Square.

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