Park & garden
Summer Garden
- Mon
- 10:00–20:00
- Tue
- Closed
- Wed
- 10:00–20:00
- Thu
- 10:00–20:00
- Fri
- 10:00–20:00
- Sat
- 10:00–20:00
- Sun
- 10:00–20:00
- Hours
- From October 1 to March 31. Entry ends 30 minutes before closing; the garden is closed for drying from April 1 to April 30.
- Price
- Garden admission: 0 RUB.
- How to visit
- Smoking, bicycles, scooters, roller skates and animals are prohibited.
- Hours
- Free entry
- Hours
- About 60 min
Why it is worth the detour
A historic public garden featuring classical sculptures and a monument to Ivan Krylov.
The Summer Garden is a historic public garden in Saint Petersburg, known for its landscape architecture and classical sculptures. It is a branch of the Russian Museum and includes a monument to the fable author Ivan Krylov.
The people behind this address
Documented connections, not celebrity trivia.
Peter the Great
Founded the Summer Garden as a formal imperial park.
Catherine the Great
Commissioned Felten’s famous Neva-side iron grille (1770s–84); personally took Smolny Institute pupils on a public promenade here in 1773.
Alexander Pushkin
Daily haunt while living nearby; wrote to his wife that the Summer Garden was his ‘ogorod’ — morning walks in a dressing gown, afternoon naps and writing there (esp. summer 1834).
Ivan Krylov
Famous Krylov fable monument stands in the Summer Garden.
Taras Shevchenko
As a young serf-apprentice painter he sketched Summer Garden statues and began writing verse there (incl. early ballad work).
Yury Felten
Designed the famous wrought-iron grille of the Summer Garden.
What else is close by
The nearest places we have written up, with straight-line distance from here.
350 m
Chizhik-Pyzhik Monument
A small bronze statue of Chizhik-Pyzhik on the embankment near the First Engineer Bridge.
650 m
Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood
The church marks the precise area where Alexander II was mortally wounded by a People’s Will bomb on March 13, 1881, or March 1 under the Russian calendar then in use. Its glittering mosaics therefore enclose the memory of a chaotic assassination that ended a reforming reign and hardened the politics of his successors.
Walk it with the stories
This address is one stop among many. Our routes and quests link them into a walk that makes sense on the ground.