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Up to the middle of the 18th century the territory
to the south of the |Admiralty|Custom1|O:8| was called the
Admiralty Lawn. The Admiralty Lawn used to be
a place for military exercise and public
merry-making. In the second half of the 18th
century the southern part of the Lawn was built
up, and before the main fasade of the |Admiralty|Custom1|O:8|
there was formed Admiralty Square. In 1872-74
a garden was planted here, and the trees spread
to occupy the largest part of the square. The
garden, named after Emperor Alexander, was
laid out to a design by the gardener and botanist
E. Regel. In front of the |Admiralty|Custom1|O:8| in 1876-77 a
fountain was set up (architects A. Geschwend,
N. Benois). In 1887 a bust of the poet V.
Zhukovsky was put up on the territory adjoining
|Palace Square|Custom1|O:116| (sculptor V.Kreitan), in 1892 a
monument to N. Przhevalsky, explorer of the
Central Asia, was set up opposite it (sculptor I.
Schreder). Near the fountain bronze busts of the
composer M. Glinka, the writer N. Gogol, and
the poet M. Lermontov were set up in the 1890s
(sculptors V.Pashchenko and V. Kreitan)