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Bosquet «French parterre»

In 1720 after the plans of the French sculptor and architect Nicolo Pino there was constructed the pyramidal «Dolphin Cascade», which was richly decorated with gilded lead statuary and vases. The bosquet was encompassed with a trellis fence with niches and fretted lanterns. The structures were seriously damaged by the flood of 1777 and were disassembled in 1780s. The bosquet is known to have housed Pietro Baratta’s marble horse sculpture standing on the pedestal, which was a smaller version of a monument to Marcus Aurelius (riderless); it was delivered from Venice in 1722. In 1855 on the site of the former bosquet there was erected a bronze monument to the fabulist Ivan A. Krylov, made by the sculptor Peter Clodt.