Monplaisir Garden

The Monplezir Garden is located in the Lower Park of Peterhof in front of the southern facade of the Monplezir Palace and is an object of cultural heritage of federal significance. During the Great Patriotic War, the Germans built fortifications in the garden, where 24 lead herms and gilt figures had previously stood, and where bulbous flowers and fragrant herbs had been planted. On October 6, 1941, an unequal bayonet fight between a naval landing force and the enemy took place here, in which the landing force was defeated. By 1723, the land around the fountain basins was lined with clinker bricks, and paired berceaus and trellis "sofas" with triton mascarons appeared in the garden.