In the center of the city, near the Kirochnaya Tavricheskaya and is one of the coziest landscape gardens - Tauride Gardens, every corner of which is impregnated with the spirit of imperial Russia. It is easy to imagine that just walking here Paul I, and now because of the tree leaves Prince Potemkin-Tauride, Kulibin or sitting on the bench and is considering experimenting with a bridge across the Neva River. It is here tested the ship "Elizabeth" - the first created by the steamers.

In the 80 years of the eighteenth century on the orders of Catherine the Great on the project and under the supervision of the architect Starov Tauride Palace was built for Field Marshal Grigory Potemkin Tauride, which became the standard construction of other palaces.

The interiors of the Tauride Palace were luxurious. But equally magnificent and it became a garden surrounding the palace. His plan involved the English specialist gardener V. Guld. At the spot where once flowed a rivulet Samoroyka were dug two ponds connected to each other by channels. The fish ponds have started, but not something which, as a noble starlet.

In the southern part of the Great Pond were piled two islands, which are planted mostly conifers, but they were here and oaks, and birches. From the hill, which was formed from the earth dug ponds on the Big Island, offering breathtaking views of the palace. The island with the "mainland" connected pedestrian metal bridge - one of the first in Russia.

In 1794, under the supervision of Wolves it was built "House garden master" and arranged a greenhouse, made the garden fence and approach the stone bridge. In the greenhouse gardeners are grown to the king's table, a variety of exotic fruits: pineapple and watermelon, cantaloupe and peaches.

After the death of Potemkin Garden did not run, but instead began to develop even more, here, new ponds, whose shores are reinforced with stone. On the meadows of the garden is no longer graze livestock, they turned into a beautiful lawn. After the creation of the garden was closed for ordinary citizens, and there was something to admire. On the lawns peacocks walked, swam in ponds majestic swans in the pond lapped seal, a gift from a distant Persia.

Only after almost fifty years the garden has gradually become more available for visiting Petersburgers. Here we began to build sports facilities for badminton and ball. And in winter you can go skating.

At the beginning of the XX century in the garden in the pavilion began working Horticultural Society of the Russian Empire. After the revolution, the pavilion was reconstructed and turned into a parking garage. Changed the name of the garden, he became the Park of Culture and Recreation of the First Five-Year Plan. During the Great Patriotic War, the garden fell forty-three high-explosive bombs. Tauride Garden was adapted for the needs of the Soviet army. After the war the garden was restored under the project of talented architect Goldgora. There were built boathouse, filled rolls again, rebuilt summerhouse. In the middle of the XX century came the first large-format cinema "Leningrad". In 1962, a monument was unveiled, "Young heroes of the defense of Leningrad", the first monument dedicated to the memory of the children killed during the war.

In 1985, the Tauride garden was returned to its original name. Currently, he is - one of the favorite holiday destinations of St. Petersburg.