means caught in german and in the early eighteenth century. europe's best architects sculptors. like francisco nicholas machete. all hired to help to realize his grand ideas. even after construction never stopped as each successive contributed to its present appearance is huge. more than five hundred football fields. 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 so even if the state of the fountain is well known but is 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 sell such problems with the help of technology. they want us to get 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 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 a 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 war two. since you met 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 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 parks trees were cut down. 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 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. was also present during the excavation of numerous sculptures sort of benighted 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 they were moved them. next to their cascade 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 and pope but also of our whole a roic history. villian go off is the oldest stuff member of peta hoff he knows the history of every sculpture in the park in detail and only after his sarah examination mayor restored

statue return to peter home. for the go on the bush shouldn't deviate from the anatomy of a follows the benches that you sent us was thinking the way in which i think is up and so you press down the finger and i thought bit nervous president already looking over. it's just because the one in the picture. but of course it can be proved. today the biggest problem for peter how sculptures is vandalism some tourists break fingers off the statues but on bananas 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 and in the times of peter the great city. of life here incidentally is one of peterhof spece has some 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 to see monster with a more fulfilled 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 hand 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 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 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 shiny feet this is because. to rub them for luck. and how many times. oh the more the better. 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 before but the two hundredth anniversary of the victory in the a c. and twelve will do with some of the main theme of this performance is a ball interrupted by the war but the ever move the dances like these were common

in this palace of the family commemorating the two hundredth anniversary of burrows into the sea of the world war the. peace all 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 given from those who work at the historic peterhof every day. secret lumber touring tim curry was able to build a new most sophisticated robot which fortunately doesn't give a darn about anything tim's mission to teach me the creation of why i should care about humans and work this is why you should care only on the dot com.

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you. for a few days in peace house alexandria punk time goes back to the era of cardinal richelieu . the park transforms into la rochelle complete with a fortress camp guards guns and waltzes the main axes

a musket vs performing daring feats like chasing carriages about it. in the old days various people were brought to peter hall from france and today the stanza still staged by the french. the new movie based on one of alexander must novels is being shot him like. that for the book is simply wonderful that's why we. see the beautiful trees around you that he looks like vintage from. the loads 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 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 well i don't see how you're doing. these centuries old trees are under the strict control of a curator. of a only two hundred of the oaks that saw peter the great and his successors remain there regularly inspected by specialists and would diseases and part of the process involves detailed imaging technology. because i knew the results. would go more as you know my main hell famous films. it's getting a bit joy-ann and there is some of the deadwood in the middle east he did you know but oh man no it's conditioned remained the same. 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 so what was the image of now we're 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 mahdi palace you've moved to such style of garden is called french formal garden weirdly from the 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 a. law from. the bottom. that's how we'll be able to achieve the trap is the shape. 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 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. but. the. system has to develop. through the spring.

continue with this research try to learn as much as possible. interested in this. place has huge potential. develop true. going to be. good to get here by bicycle. peter discovered. the special feature of peter. is that the. difference in the terrain makes the water down hill. and there's a whole network of natural streams. which feeds. through

gateways the water pipes directly to the fountain. 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 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 pump phone. 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 entertainments and wonders such as trimming trees in the shape of fairy tale characters brought in from overseas while strolling along the avenues and the special selection of trick fountains. here we have peter holds trickled 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 a bench for instance. back in the days of peter the great people used to make big wigs and heavy dresses powdered their faces and color to their eyebrows . legend has it that when they came on to these jets of water. was

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 building surface static and economic purposes. of the greats god made an example of this the emperor personally ordered dutch fruit and vegetable seeds which were escorted to russia has valuable cargo. like the logo that up with this garden has the very plants that peter is the great first brought to russia in seventeen eleven am just that i think that all of them grow here today

. if this is lettuce radish to famous and the most unusual vegetable called started choke and of course potatoes. in the legend has it that peter is a great planted the first two sacks of. vegetables became so popular that the white flowers from potato plants were the most fashionable and lady's head decoration for quite some time today the keeper of the historical garden. sets about harvesting fruit and vegetables according to dutch tradition she uses them to decorate the vases in peterhof slow a gardens. live

. 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. i was completely ensures the victory over napoleon at the battle of 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 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 didn't you have built cottages impact the water supply system. home full 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 toughs and that this what's what do you think is the most difficult part of operating the water supply system in terms of technology. a solution of so servicing to found this is quite easy it's a work of genius and everything of genius is simple and. yet .

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. when the fountain season is over and life changes say here that life is no goal without peter hall. without working fountains peter hall feels different. and so the main guardian of the fountain system in the shoulder and all those who work with them is a reminder to time flows by just like walter. download

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