million tourists come to peterhof every year why do people come here because peterhof boasts one hundred fifty fountains seven palaces and twenty three museums and of course the most important highlight of peterhof is its fountain system. be over from first fountains go. each day at a live million salesman's of tourists to gather in the lower gardens of be tough to see for themselves the fountain starter. takes twelve people to open all the bells and recently it's been accompanied by small petersburg's and some of.

the idea to build best residence drug peter the great during his diplomatic visit to vs. however all of the fountains and far side were run by 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 on the go surely. 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 spray a thousand liters of water per second and in a day the usable in most thirteen pieces 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.

and in the early eighteenth century. present appearance. so if you have a hole 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. at the side 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 the broke down today's engineers sold such problems with the help of technology. to get enough water to day so we can stand while working for everyone we have no problems today. if they saw

a small leak but if you can look at it closely and decide what to do about it you should get the problem of 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 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. 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 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 or something 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 peterhof 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 a venti 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. 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 installed. the levante of were also present during the excavation of numerous sculptures sort of benighted in forty one without 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 dug up and of course is 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. and so sculpture of a silly 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 and pulp but also of our whole heroic 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 siren examination mayor restored statue returned to peter holes. on the bush shouldn't deviate from the anatomy of the follows the picture that you sent us was thinking the way in which i think is a bent so you press down the finger and i feel bad you know it's preston already over. his just because the one in the picture. 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 on both ends to them they're only taking home replicas many of the originals have long been kept hidden away in storage.

use one despite all or some of the mobile sculptures have always been damaged you know it's now and in the times of peter the great city. of life here incidentally is one of pisa hopes best has made some drama in the book the borders of the infusion of greek mythology has it that she was the daughter of an ethiopian king though who was due to be sacrificed to a sea. so it would still ravaging her kingdom. and it was the ancient hero who defeated the sea monster with a monthly one for one over the beautiful andromeda with. the right hand was reconstructed off to the wall. so every you can see that this reconstructed happened doesn't have five fingers it was. 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 yet but 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 peter wanted to have his own neptune but at 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 tourists to rub them for luck. and how many times. oh the more the better. it will go we've spent 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 but the two hundredth anniversary of the victory in the eighteen twelve will do with some of the main theme of this performance is a ball interrupted by the war but. the dances like these were common in this palace and we commemorating the two hundredth anniversary of burroughs and have this. almost piece of stuff members some two thousand of them a busy making final preparations for the fountain season is closing ceremony details of the performance are a closely guarded secret even from those who look at the historic peterhof every day. choose your language. and if they feel some honest.

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sort of few days in petah house alexandria punch time goes back to the era of cardinal richelieu. the park transforms into a lot of shelter complete with a fortress camp guards guns and walls is the main xs a musket is performing daring feats like chasing carriages and. in the old days various people were brought to peter hall from france and today the stanza still staged by the french. many movie based on one of alexander dumas novels is being shot here. that well the park is simply wonderful that's why we're shooting here you see the beautiful trees around you hold with that he looks like vintage fronds wonderful oaks which are two hundred years old if not older. unlike the

grand palaces and geometrical designs elsewhere in peterhof the alexandria landscape is mostly natural. this romantic park 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 go more as you know my main how famous films. are it's getting a bit drawn yeah and there is some who did good in the middle east who did you know but oh man no its condition would remain 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 that leads to the more. alice. there you can see the palace. three

other avenues of the lower gardens lead to the marquee palace you've moved to such style of garden 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 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 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. law from. the bottom. that's how we'll be able to achieve the trap is. interesting like the french once believed that only men could become goodness they thought that as a mother it was difficult for a woman to cut a living thing but here in the gardens of peterhof male god knows the exception rather than the rule. your million of his job is to preserve the gardens historic appearance so they look as they do down to the emperor as the 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 . should be. everything i deal with goes well. everything.

compared to. this grand russian residence is on the shore of the. water supply system has to develop a new tourist through the springs and. continue with this research that i will try to learn as much as possible. interest in this. place has huge potential. tourist true. going to be more. active. 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. 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. pipeline 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 wells are being dug in the future this may lead to pollution and water shortages. that 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 their 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 trick fountains 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 did 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 just that i think that all of them grow here to date as if this is lettice radish this famous and most unusual fitted to book called inside to choke and a course potatoes. in the legend has it that peter is a great planted the first two sacks of potatoes with his own hand. vegetables became so popular that the white flowers from potato plants with the

most fashionable and ladies had decoration for quite some time today the keeper of the historical go because many sets about harvesting fruit and vegetables according to dutch tradition she uses them to decorate the vases in peterhof slow a 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 the budget 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 off to 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 new a build 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 just course there are concerns that he's made leads to some kind of environmental to sell stuffs and

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 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. we're going to fall into the season is over and life changes. i hear that life is dull without peter hall. without working fountains peter hall feels different.

and for the main gaudio of the fountain system you know you shoulda and all those who work with the wholesome is a reminder of the time also flows by just like walter. just. creative. elegance and full and public speaking. a few european bodybuilders against millions of weak immigrants. this may not seem so serious now. but this could be

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