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Catherine Garden (Carlo Rossi, 1828-1834)
One of the city beauty spots is this square laid out in 1828-1834 to the design by Carlo Rossi in front of the Alexandrinsky Theatre. The Alexandrinskaya square, nowadays called Ploschad Ostrovskogo, is often reffered to as the Catherine Garden after the only statue in the city to the empress Catherine the Great erected here in 1873 |
