to see for themselves the fountain stone. trails people's open. and recently it's been accompanied by. the idea to build this residence struck peter the great during his diplomatic visit to verse. however all of the fountains of the first side were run 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 over. that is why you have a great use the italian gravity system for my view this means all the gram cascade fountains floats on there are. these fountains spread thousand liters of water per second and in a day the usable in most. cases that's enough to fill twelve olympic size from

today the fountains have never dropped. peter laughed what are very much his future 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 engineers like francisco distressedly nicolette machete and giambattista blonde all hired to help the emperor to realize his grand ideas.

so if his 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 because they did 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 the broke down today's engineers sold such problems with the help of technology. enough for to day so we can stand while working for everyone we have no problems today. i saw a small leak but you can look at it closely and decide what to do about it you should get the power of the water comes through the spout. everything's fine. the grand cascades central feature is the gilded samson fountain. the water jets from the lion smell shoots twenty one meters 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 but. since then the image of

samson has not only symbolized peter the great and the russian army but also the victory in world will too. since you believe in september nineteenth forty one the germans began their nine hundred day scenes of leningrad the authorities took whatever valuables they could from the palace to st isaac's cathedral these figures on the cascade were buried in the park but the samson weighs 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 ground a 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 levante of followed in his father's footsteps. it was nineteen forty six. as far as i remember the opening of the first construction stage are there were only two italian fountains as well as terrorist fountains and was not there only his 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. friendships were also present during the excavation of numerous sculptures. sort of benighted in forty one without guys would quit going out of bury all this coaches 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. there 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 old 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 stuff member of peta olf he knows the history of every sculpture in the park in detail and only after his separate examination mayor restored statue return to peter health. field to go on the bush shouldn't deviate from the anatomy of the photos the picture 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 nervous preston already looking over. it's just because the one in the picture. but of course it can be proved. today the biggest

problem for pay to have sculptures is vandalism some tourists break fingers off the statues but unbeknownst to them they're only taking home replicas many of the originals have long been kept hidden away in storage. use one despite some of the mobile sculptures have always been damaged you know it's now i'm doing the times of peter the great city but. here incidentally is one of peterhof spece has a son drama and a. couple of. 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 prescious who defeated the sea monster who put them on the board for one over the beautiful andromeda but. the right hand was reconstructed off to the

wall. so every you can see that this reconstructed half of doesn't have five fingers. but. this unusual sculpture is near mt 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 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 but of that time all the bronze was of course used to make cannons so they took a bronze trophy cannon and cast this first neptune that people always ask why it has such a feat this is because. surest to rub them for luck. and how many times. oh

the more the better. we've spent a lot of time thinking of what to do for the fountain season's closing ceremony. of which we realize it wasn't just any old event but the two hundredth anniversary of the victory in the a c. in twelve will deal with some of the main theme of this performance is a ball interrupted by the idea. that the us is like bees were common in this palace and we commemoration of the two hundredth anniversary of burrows into the sea of the old war the. peace stuff members some two thousand a busy making final preparations for the fountain season's closing ceremony details of the performance are a closely guarded secret hidden from those who work at the historic peterhof every

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thanks. for a few days and pita house alexandria punk time goes back to the arrows causing a lawyer should we. cut. the park transforms into la rochelle complete with a fortress camp guards guns and waltz is the main x. is a musket is performing daring feats like chasing carriages. in the old days various people will brought to peterhof from france and today the. still staged by the french. the new movie based on one of alexander is being shot here.

but. that's why we. can you see the beautiful trees around. looks like vintage from. two hundred years old if not older. unlike the grand palaces and geometrical designs elsewhere in peterhof the alexandria landscape is mostly natural. this for a 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 a 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 good to be in the wood more as you know my main hell famous not. well it's getting a bit dry and there is some of the dead wood in the middle east who did you know but only know its condition remained the same for all of the new music to me it's a good joke and it feels good. to draw the visitors 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 mall. alice. there you can see the palace. three other avenues of the lower garden still lead to the marquee palace you've moved to such style of garden it is called french formal garden. french gardens have straight avenues and the trees are trimmed to give them a regular joe metric forms a. piece of the great ones flew into a rage when he saw a french architected invited to peterhof cutting down trees the czar was quick to beat his guests are 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. as we need to make it. law from. the bottom. that's how we'll be able to achieve the trap shape. interesting like the french once believed that only men could become governors 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 look as they did on to the emperors plant collection includes linden's oaks and ash trees and remains true to peter's records after all the emperor took

personal care of the assortment of trees growing in these gardens. everything i deal with goes well. everything. compared to. this grand russian residence is on the shore of the gulf of. the unique water supply system has to develop a new tourist walk through the springs and. continue with this research try to learn as much as possible. this place has huge potential.

tourist true. going to be more. they could get here by bicycle. area peter discovered. the special feature of peter is the. difference in the terrain makes the water run downhill. twenty two kilometers from the ground and there's a whole network of natural streams flowing into a canal which feeds. through gateways the water pipes directly to the fountain. of forty kilometers.

realized peter's ideas and the. last shovel of earth from. 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. 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 a special selection of tricks fountains. here we have peter holmes trickle down to one of them were designed to take visitors by surprise so that they would end up under a jet of water quite done expectedly. when you sit on the bench for instance. back in the days of peter the great people used to make big wigs and heavy dresses out of their faces and color to their eyebrows. 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 served as 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. like the logo of the who says garden has the fairy plants that peter is a great first brought to russia in seventeen eleven am just that i think that all of them grow here to date as if they sister lettice radish this famous and most unusual bit a tool called psi to choke and a small horse potatoes. in the legend has it that peter is

a great planter to first two sacks of potatoes with his own had. pledged to bills 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 mentos sets about harvesting fruit and vegetables according to dutch tradition she uses them to decorate the vases in p. to help slow a gardens. agio the fountain festival is dedicated to a particular year 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 bottom 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. let's go could you tell me how do the

newly built cottages impact the water supply system in. the us the hope so far it hasn't had any harmful impact as not a single call to church settlement has been commissioned yet but this course there are concerns that he's made leads to some kind of environmental disaster toughs on that this what's 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 judge days is always coincides with the fountain festival right 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 when two is knocking on the dole. we're going to fall into the season is over and life changes. life is dull. without working fountains peterhof feels different. and for the main god and of the fountain system. and all those who work with. the time also flows by just like water. on the edge of human capability. struggling with pain and. layouts to become the first. force pulled in.

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