Saint Petersburg. Fountain in Rumyantsevsky Square Solovyov Garden At the beginning of the XVIII century. on the site of the Rumyantsevsky garden was the Menshikovsky market. Later, during the construction of the building of the Academy of Arts, a construction site was located at this place. At the end of XVIII, this place was the parade ground of the Cadet Corps, located in the Menshikov Palace. In 1818, K. Rossi moved the obelisk “Victory of Rumyantsev” from the Field of Mars to the center of the parade ground of the Cadet Corps, but the area around the obelisk remained uncomfortable. In 1867, at the expense of an honorary Petersburg citizen, a merchant S. F. Solovyov, the owner of two houses on Rumyantsevskaya Square, a public garden was laid out, the center of which was the Rumyantsev Obelisk. The garden is decorated with two fountains and a music pavilion. Fountains created by the project arch. D. Jensen, made of cast iron and decorated with lion mascarons, cupids, shells and flower garlands. Rumyantsevsky brass bands played in the musical pavilion with figured cast-iron pillars and wrought iron bars

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