Dubok (Joke Fountain)

The "Dubok" trick fountain in the Lower Park of Peterhof is a six-meter-high composition made of a metal trunk and 500 tubular branches with 2500 leaves. Water fills the hollow trunk from the root to the top, and next to it there are spouting tulips and two wooden benches, behind the backs of which 41 tubes are hidden with unexpectedly gushing jets. Created in 1735 according to the model of B. K. Rastrelli, the fountain was destroyed during the Great Patriotic War and was recreated in 1953 by the Lavrentyev masters from the surviving drawings and a preserved twig.