each day at a live news thousands of tourists gather in the lower gardens of be tough to see for themselves the fountain stone. takes twelve people to open all the bells and recently it's been accompanied by small petersburg's and so. the idea to build this residence struck peter the great during his diplomatic visit to verse. however all of the fountains of her side were with the help of pumps so they could only operate without human assistance for a very short period of time and then they had to be pumped. that is why you have a great use the italian gravity system. this means all the gram cascade fountains flow on there are. these fountains spread thousand

liters of water per second and in a day the use of almost thirteen inches that's enough to fill twelve olympic sized swimming pool and to date the fountains have never dropped. peter laughed what are very much this feature was his brainchild and she wanted to put it into life and see what it would look like and she did. she could not wait until the official opening of the entire system and she did a test run well before construction was complete. peterhof means peter's caught in german and in the early eighteenth century the emperor enlisted europe's best architects sculptors gardeners and engine is like francisco restaurant nicola machete and giambattista blonde all hired to help the emperor to realize his grand ideas.

sophia is researching the imperial residence is unique fountain system to finish her ten year long project she still has to conduct a number of interviews. the state of the fountain is well known but as for the pipe system very few are aware of it so i would like to make people familiar with it. has been in charge of preserving the fountain system for thirty five years. she made up our minds to work here when she first saw the grand cascade at the age of five. grottos beneath the fountains a little by daylight and still look as they did in peter the great time back then

only people who were thin and short enough would be able to work here so they could climb into a pipe and fix anything that broke down today's engineer's souls such problems with the help of technology. enough for to day so we can stand. no problems today. i saw a small leak but you can look at it closely and decide what to do about it. the water comes through the spout them. everything's fine. the grand cascades central feature is the gilded samson fountain. the water jets from alliance mel shoots twenty one metres up into the sky. the samson fountain commemorates russia's victory over sweetening the decisive battle of poltava leading to victory in the great north. since then the image of

samson has not only symbolized peace of the great and the russian army but also a victory in world war two. since you put in september nineteenth forty one the germans began their nine hundred day scenes of leningrad the authorities took what ever valuables they could from the palace to st isaac's cathedral these figures on the cascade were buried in the park but the samson waste three and a half tons it was simply too heavy to move when german soldiers took pictures here in the one nine hundred forty three samson was still present when our troops liberated peter hall from the samson was gone. when peterhof was seized by the nazis it was almost completely demolished the occupying forces took away the major

bronze statues and led best reliefs of the grand cascade almost ten thousand of the park's trees were cut down ditches and trenches replaced once magnificent palaces. after the war when restoring the gardens and parks many were killed by unexploded landmines. who had returned to the city were invited to reconstruct the fountain system before the revolution of nine hundred seventeen the head of the family worked as a fountain maker for emperor nicholas the second. his son pavel of followed in his father's footsteps. so whose it was nineteen forty six. as far as i remember the opening of the first construction stage are there only two italian fountains as well as terrorist fountains. there only has

pedestal. father and son had to work together all through the night only two hours before the grand opening a nine hundred forty seven with the water jets for the pedestal of the grand cascade finally and stoled. were also present during the excavation of numerous sculptures sort of benighted in forty one guys with quick enough to bury all the sculptures from the chess mountain cascade and the gold hill cascade the germans never guessed they had done it no wonder it was the russians who buried them right where there are moved them. next to the cascade go-go and of course if the germans a guest about it they would have taken all the sculptures with them. as for samson he was never found some believe that the germans took him away to be melted down for bronze and so sculptor vassily siminoff made a new one. had been a war and a blockade more than one million people had died from starvation and the beautiful

shiny sampson was delivered by tractor people were crying and kneeling down the police have stopped traffic it was delivered here to open the forty seven fountain season for all russians the samson fountain is the main fountain of russia it's not only a symbol of peter's victory in pulp but also of our whole a roic history. villian go off is the oldest staff member of peta hoff he knows the history of every sculpture in the park in detail and only after his thorough examination may are restored statue returned to peter hall's. over a month bush shouldn't deviate from the anatomy. of a follows the bench that you sent us was thinking the way in which i think is at the end so you press down the finger a little bit you know it's president already over. just because the one in the

picture. but of course it can be proved. today the biggest problem for peta how sculptures is vandalism some tourists break fingers off the statues but on balance to them they're only taking home replicas many of the originals have long been kept hidden away in storage. despite its mobile sculptures have always been damaged and now i'm going to times of peter the great city. of here incidentally is one of peterhof spece has some drama. but the. greek mythology has it that she was the daughter of an ethiopian king. who was due to be sacrificed to a sea monster so it would stop ravaging her kingdom. and it was the ancient hero who defeated the sea monster but with

a more fulfilled one for one over the beautiful andromeda. the right hand was reconstructed off to the wall. so every you can see that this reconstructed hand doesn't have five fingers. but. this unusual sculpture is near placea peter the great favorite palace and the only building here to survive world war two intact when approaching the neptune fountain peter the great he used to say that was the best medicine if this is the first bronze statue of russia before that there were no secular statues in russia all the sculptures were religious and were made of either wood or stone and peter wanted to have his own neptune that time all the bronze was of course used to make cannons so they took a bronze trophy cannon and cast this first neptune the people always ask why it has

such a feat this is because. to rub them for luck. and how many times. oh the more the better. the will go to believe spends a lot of time thinking what to do for the fountain season's closing ceremony. which we realize it wasn't just any old event before but the two hundredth anniversary of the victory in the eighteen twelve will continue from the main theme of this performance is a ball interrupted by the war of the video for me but the dances like these were common in this palace because of the family commemorating the two hundredth anniversary of the origin of the state of the world war the. call of peace all stuff members some two thousand of a busy making final preparations for the fountain season's closing ceremony details

of the performance are a closely guarded secret to some from those who look at the historic peterhof every day. he.

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for a few days and peter house alexandria time goes back to the era of cardinal richelieu .

transforms into la rochelle complete with a fortress camp guards guns and. the main axes a musket in daring feats like chasing carriages. and the old days various people from france and today the stunts is still staged by the french. and the movie based on one of. these is being shot him. for the book is simply wonderful that's why we. can you see the beautiful trees around you looks like vintage from. which a two hundred years old is not old. unlike the grand palaces and geometrical designs elsewhere in peterhof the alexandria landscape is mostly natural. this from mental part was created in the nineteenth century when nicholas the first was emperor it was named after his wife alexandra.

at the beginning of the twentieth century it was a favorite spot for nicholas the second the last emperor of the roman often a city whose children were raised here. but won't see how you're doing. these centuries old trees are under the strict control of the curator. only two hundred of the oaks that saul peter the great and his successors remain are there regularly inspected by specialists in wood diseases and part of the process involves detailed imaging technology. because i knew the results. you know would morris health remain hell famous not. well it's getting

a bit dry and there is some of the deadwood in the middle east who did you know but all in all its condition would remain the same. it's a good joke and it was good. to draw the visitor's eyes the park benefits from a range of natural lighting effects. all creating a beautifully glistening effect in the water with the rays of light playing through regular rows of trees though it was what made you and now we are walking along another avenue of the lower gardens it is called marley alley because it leads to the marley palace. there you can see the palace. three other avenues of the lower gardens lead to the marquee palace you've moved one such style of garden is called french formal garden will be from french gardens have straight avenues and the trees are trimmed to give them a regular joe metric forms. piece

of the great ones flew into a rage when he saw a friend jock attacked it invited to peterhof cutting down trees the czar was quick to beat his guest john but he's let alone with a stick but he was later embarrassed to discover that the blonde was in fact simply trimming the trees he was so eager to impress foreign visitors with a new image of russia that he gladly took home the new european trend for trimming trees. that night it would rise we need to make a chapter by cutting out the law from the tell and a little bit less said the boss and. that's how we're be able to achieve the trap is always shaped. interesting like the french once believed that only men could become governess they thought that as a mother it was difficult for

a woman to cause a living thing but here in the gardens of peterhof male god knows how the exception rather than the rule. of his job is to preserve the gardens historic appearance so they lie. trees. trees grow. but.

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the entire pipeline covers a length of forty kilometers. i. realised peter's ideas and the emperor himself dug up the last shovel of earth from the new canal in seventeen twenty one the fountains began to flow. in some places the pipes installed in the days of peter the great are being preserved however the gravity fountains of peterhof are at risk cottage settlements are being built near the storage ponds and being dug in the future this may lead to both pollution and water shortages. if we do not take any measures in the nearest future namely develop

a strategy to protect the entire system it may be too late. as a result we may end up using pumps. this is highly undesirable as the phone to work in only a few hours a day if that happens. people wanted to impress the gardens visitors not just with fountains but with a variety of entertainment some one does such as trimming trees in the shape of fairy tale characters brought in from overseas were strolling along the avenues and the special selection of trick fountains. we have peter holds trickle down to. them were designed to take visitors by surprise so that they would end up under a jet of water quite unexpectedly. when you sit on the bench for instance. back in the days of the great people used to make big wigs and heavy dresses

powdered their faces and the. legend has it that when they came under these jets of water. seconds and then. finally when your makeup is all i can see your face. beauty is inseparable from function. that's the motto here at the peterhof gardens and all the buildings of the static and economic purposes. of the greats god made an example of this the emperor personally ordered dutch fruit and vegetable seeds which were scolded to russia as a valuable cargo. over the would face guard and has to ferry plans that peters

the grade first brought to russia in seventeen eleven am just that i think that all of them grow here to date us a system that is radish the famous and the most unusual ditto called inside to choke and a coarse potatoes. in the legend has it that peter is a great planter defers to sacks of potatoes with his own head. vegetables became so popular that the white flowers from potato plants were the most fashionable and ladies had decoration for quite some time today the keeper of the historical golden because mental sets about harvesting fruit and vegetables according to dutch tradition she uses them to decorate the vases in peterhof slowed gardens.

agio the fountain festival is dedicated to a particular era in two thousand and twelve the show takes the audience back to the heroic battles of eighteen twelve reminding everyone of the fact that two hundred years ago moscow burns down almost completely and shows the victory over napoleon at the battle but i do know. for the first time a multimedia laser show brings the walls of the grand palace to life palatial scenery becomes a virtual display the closing of the season is still truly on an imperial scale.

the day after the spectacle sophia met with the fountain system's chief specialist as study of peterhof is nearing completion. could you tell me how do the newly built cottages impact the water supply system in the us the pope says it hasn't had any harmful impact as not a single call to church settlement has been commissioned yet but just course there are concerns that he's made lead to some kind of environmental disaster. that this what do you think is the most difficult part of operating the water supply system in terms of technology. so servicing to found this is quite easy it's a work of genius and everything of genius is simple.

making days is always coincides with the fountain festival and i usually have mixed feelings it's joy and sadness joy from the fact that we've grown fine crops that will decorate the garden and the guests will enjoy them and sadness because the season is over and winter is knocking on the dole. when the fountain season is over and life changes. here the life is dull without peter hall . without watching fountains peter hall feels different. and for the main guardian of the fountain system in a chauffeur and all those who work with the wholesome is a reminder the time also flows by just like water.

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