Album 125
(Translated by Ilya
Saprykin)
Although in the previous three albums we talked about
fountains too, this one will be "100% fountain-special" :-)
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Fountain alley along the banks of the Sea
(Big) channel. |
| Fountain "Nymph"
Architect A.I.Shtakenshnaider (1854) |
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"Whale's" (?) fountain |
| The "Cup" ("Big")
fountain. There're two such fountains - by both sides of the Grand
cascade. The one on the west is called Italian, and the eastern one -
French (important parts of the fountains were made by masters from
respective countries).
Built in 1720-1722 to the plans of Miketti (rebuilt since then). |
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The "Pyramid" fountain.
It's construction is pretty interesting:
water is delivered by seven tubes to the seven camres. All cameras are
covered by a bronze plate. There're 505 holes in this plate. The
constuction is regulated in such a fashion that the water streams jet
to various heights. |
| The "Sun" fountain.
The central part rotates under water pressure.
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The jokery fountain "Pine".
The best way to get wet :) |
| The "Triton" fountain
There're four of them, and they were made for the Grand cascade,
but ended up by the Menazherniy fountain. |
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| The Menazherniy fountain (from french
"thrifty").
It's height is about 15 meters and it is empty inside. The fact
that it looks so "solid" is dictated by it's construction -
the nozzles are situated along a circle, creating something like
"water tube". |
The "Edam" fountain (there's
one more, similar to it, - "Eve").
Architect N.Miketti, sculptor D.Bonazza. |
| Let's move for some time to the Upper
park, - there're things worth seeing there, too. Like this fountain,
which is only a few centimeters high, but looks quite mature :) |
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Some fish... |
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We're back in the Lower park, in the
Mon-plaisir garden.
This is one of the four "Bell" fountains. |
| The "Sheaf" ("Crown")
fountain.
Fountains in this garden were created in 1721-1723 by architects
N.Miketti, I.Ustinov and fountain master P.Sualem.. |
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The same "Sheaf", but from
another point of view. |
That's enough for Peterhoff. For the time being :) |
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