Marlinsky Cascade

The Marlinsky Cascade in the Lower Park of Peterhof was completed by Zemtsov in the summer of 1732, and its final design is dominated by an expanded and raised waterfall staircase rather than a basin. In the center of the attic crowning the staircase, a statue of Neptune with a trident is installed, and on either side of him are figures of Triton and a Nymph by the Venetian sculptor Antonio Tarsia from 1718–1719. In 1723, Peter I planned to decorate the cascade with a sculpture of Hercules killing the seven-headed hydra, from whose mouth water was supposed to flow. In 1966, two dilapidated lead pedestals under the mascarons were reproduced in bronze at the Monumentsculptura factory.