Video: Imperial Gardens Of Russia
2024 Author: Sebastian Paterson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:47
From 8 to 17 June, the fifth international festival "Imperial Gardens of Russia" was held in St. Petersburg's Mikhailovsky Garden. The theme of the main event of the festival - the exhibition-competition of 39 gardens and garden compositions - in the anniversary year was the well-known phrase "Where does the Motherland begin …". In addition, traditional master classes, concerts and excursions were held here every day.
It is not surprising that many of the works in the year of the 1150th anniversary of the emergence of Russian statehood were devoted to country estates and palace and park ensembles: Russian Versilia, Mon Repos Park, Rapti Manor, Noble Nest, Priyutino Museum-Estate, Penates - I. E. Repin, Bath on the Voronka River (the bathing pavilion from Leo Tolstoy's Yasnaya Polyana estate was recreated in the work), Dedication to the brilliant Peterhof, etc.
The work "Tretyakov Gallery for the Russian Museum" was a garden installation of paintings by V. D. Polenova "Babushkin's Garden" and "Moscow Courtyard". The work "Hussar Ballad" (a command tent with battle banners, standards, orders and St. George's ribbon) paid tribute to the events of two hundred years ago - the Patriotic War of 1812.
Many festival-goers enjoyed wandering through the labyrinth of the "Monastery Garden", the prototype of which is located in the Priory of Notre Dame d'Orsan. Those who got to the middle could rest on a radial wicker bench surrounding a paradise tree - an apple tree. The Kupol project united some of the most key values of our country: the dome of an Orthodox church, sheaves of bread, wheat grains, wildflowers (chamomiles, poppies, cornflowers), consonant with the Russian tricolor.
The basis of the compositional solution of the work "Birch Leaf" was the tree-symbol of Russia - birch. The place of quiet rest of the gentlemen (a gazebo surrounded by lush varietal plants) was adjacent to the utilitarian part of the garden (a woodpile surrounded by wildflowers).
In the work "English Garden", the visitors were presented with a playground surrounded by flowers planted in containers with sun loungers and a gazebo. However, if it were not for the information plate with the name of the project and the British flag waving in the wind, I would never have guessed about the connection of this work with England. For me personally, it evoked more Mediterranean associations.
Many people remembered the coat of arms of Russia and the imperial monograms, skillfully executed by landscape designers from flowers, located on a large meadow.
The most conceptual project of the festival was, perhaps, the work titled “Dedicated to Jean-Baptiste Alexandre Leblond”, combining the French parade regular part and the Russian in the natural style, symbolizing the close connection, mutual influence and interpenetration of two great European cultures.
The jury did not vote in the jubilee year at the festival, but the audience's sympathy prize went to the work of Babushkin's "six hundredth", in which they beat a traditional old wooden house and the painfully familiar six hundred square meters adjacent to it.
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