Apothecary garden Hello, again! This is me, Vera. The 8th of March is coming! Its a big holiday in Russia - women's day. This day is also a symbol of spring. And spring always comes with flowers! Today our Moscow travel guide goes to the rehearsal of spring. Are you coming with us? What is the oldest garden in Moscow? Where can you see palms and pineapple trees in winter? Where can you find the oldest tree in Moscow? Why Peter the 1st planted spruce, fir and larch? Where can you try the best pies in town? The answer is simple: we are going to the apothecary garden - the botanical garden of the Moscow University. If you want to visit this unusual place, you need to go to the metro station "Prospect Mira". By the way, before the station was called " Botanical garden". Then you walk 5 minutes towards the Sadovoe ring. On the other side of the prospect you can see the house where the famous merchant, Nikolai Polevoi lived. He was the editor of the "Moscow telegraph ". Then we pass the house where we can see the word "peace" in different languages. Prospect mira means Prospect of peace. In this part of the prospect there are many restaurants with nice kitchen. Prospect mira, 30 is the mansion of the famous poet Brusov. He lived here in 1920s. Today the museum of the Silver century is located here. Look, and here is the apothecary garden. The history of the garden starts from 1706. Peter the 1st ordered to make here, behind the Suharev tower, a kitchen garden for medical plants. Today the garden is hidden from eyes by the buildings. You can get here from the glass lobby on prospect Mira, either through the easten entrance on Botanic street. Lets get inside. After the snowy street the diversity of flowers and smells make you feel dizzy. Lets see who is who. Here is the oldest variety of tulips shrenka. The wild flower looks just like an ordinary one, but smaller. And here is its relative, but looks totally different, more like a poppy. And this one is named the fire tulip, because it resembles flame. But not only tulips bloom 2 months earlier here in this greenhouse. The snowdrop the symbol of spring started to bloom in the garden on the 13 of February. With the help of the special method, cherry, plum and lilac bloom here right now! The history of the apothecary garden is full of hard and dramatic days. Most of the garden, including library and herbarium burnt out during the napoleon fire of 1812. During the Civil war in 1910s only the palm greengarden was saved, and it happened only because the fence was used as a firewood. In 1930s according to the general plan of Stalin, the garden was planned to become the main Botanic garden of Moscow with huge entrance in empire style. But it did not happen. The reason was the Second World War. The garden survived, but everything around, except the house of Brusov, was destroyed. Its better to smell flowers together with the classical music - so you can listen to Chaikovsky on this exhibition. And now, lets go further and we ll see something more interesting. We can see not only plants, but some animals here as well. The flower cat is the descendant of the court cat of Peter the 1st. His flower majesty has a right to visit all exhibitions and restaurants of the garden. By the way, if you are hungry, here you can have a good snack in several cafes and restaurants. For example in "Paradise pie" you can try the most delicious pies in Moscow! The ledend sais, that Peter the1st planted 3 trees here by himself: spruce, fir and larch in order to teach people to make difference between them. Larch is still alive. Many of the trees here including tropical are very old. The cycad of count Razumovsky is more than 200 years old. And here is the oldest tree in Moscow - the 300 year old white willow. In 1805 the apothecary garden was bought by Moscow University. But the napoleon fire destroyed most of it, including the greenhouse and herbarium. From the middle of the 19th century the garden becomes one of the most popular places for recreation in Moscow. In the different sides of the garden there are some cozy banches. One of it was the favorite of Ilia Repin. This year the apothecary garden celebrates the anniversary- 310 years. Come here and enjoy the beauties of this unforgettable place. Moscow travel guide says bye bye to you now. Subscribe, watch our videos, enjoy spring and have a nice holiday! *** Want to know more about Moscow? Subscribe to our channel. Find more stories. ►https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxz2YwXTh1D6_k8WpfOUenQ?sub_confirmation=1 *** Please share videos with friends on social networks. We will be very grateful! *** Subscribe to our pages on social networks: ►Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/moscow.video ►Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/moscow.travel.guide *** Link to this video: https://youtu.be/sgvOqkC0-yA

• published: 10 Mar 2016
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