Mikhailovsky Garden, adjacent to
Mikhailovsky Palace, is an oasis of silence, freshness and harmony in the center of St. Petersburg. Until the reign of Paul I, it was called the Third Summer Garden. The park has been rebuilt several times, but it reached its heyday and the best landscape solution while the architect K. Rossi was working on it. The garden was opened to the public at the very end of the 19th century. Here, among the delightful nature, along well-groomed alleys and along several ponds, not only Petersburgers, but also guests of the city like to stroll. The Mikhailovsky Garden is managed by the
State Russian Museum. This landscape park annually hosts the Imperial Gardens of Russia festival dedicated to landscape design and related fields.