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Triumph, triumph, win - that's what sense is incorporated in one of the most beautiful fountain complexes in the world, in a brilliant monument of Baroque art, the legendary Grand cascade of Peterhof. But this cascade is not just a masterpiece in architectural terms, but also the culmination of the entire palace and park complex of Petra, its apogee, the crown, the zenith of glory. And for that there are quite reasonable reasons.

Parks, fountains, canals and palaces are scattered all over the Leningrad region, but the Great Cascade is a unique phenomenon for the world and not amenable to a descriptive description. Just try to imagine dozens of gilded sculptures of people, mythical heroes and monsters, animals, as well as streams of water interwoven with delicate threads over the center of the entire composition - "Samson tearing the jaws of the lion". The most surprising thing is that in all this lies a deep meaning, a subtext, which will be helped by a short digression into history.

The artistic design of the Grand Cascade dates back to the beginning of the 18th century. His main idea - the glorification of the triumph of Russia, which gained access to the Baltic Sea and the North won the war of the powerful enemy - Sweden, becoming one of the greatest powers in Europe

It is this idea of ​​the game by water, light, spray, and allegorical figures. and tried to convey to his subjects and associates Peter, as well as the genius Rastrelli . I must say that they have got . More than 30 gilded statues of gods and heroes, 29 bas-reliefs on mythological subjects in every way interpret the theme of victory, and the general storyline canvas directly Fly around three major keynotes . It is, of course, the triumph of Russia's victory in the struggle with Sweden, praise to our homeland, to subdue the watery element and get access to the Baltic Sea, as well as a satire on the defeated enemy, where the same without her .

The main idea of ​​the Great Cascade is the glorification of the triumph of Russia, which gained access to the Baltic Sea and won the mighty adversary in the Great Northern War - Sweden, becoming one of the greatest powers in Europe.
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The Big Cascade Ideological Center - the sculptural group "Samson of the Russian, Roaring Lion of Sveysky Tearfully Gone" . This is a statue 3 m high, depicting Sv . Samsonius, the "heavenly" patron of the Russian army, in day of remembrance of which our troops and defeated the Swedes . It was he, representing the victorious Russia, sitting on a huge rock-pedestal and surrounded by eight water cannons, beating from the jaws of dolphins, with his mighty arms gripped the lion's mouth to forever drown his cheekbone Well and claims on Russian land . And all that can lion defeated, only let out of his mouth a 20-meter water column .

Here, in the heart of the Lower Park as anywhere else you start to feel pride in his fatherland and a new way of perceiving the meaning of a luxurious, rich and the whole world that showed how Russian muzhiks of the Peterhof ensemble are able to get down to business.

The monument was built according to the idea of ​​Peter the Great in 1735, in honor of the 20th anniversary of the Poltava victory, the outcome of the Northern War in favor of Russia. On either side of the fountain complex, in the western and eastern parts of the Lower Park, there is a cascade "Chess Mountain" and "Golden Mountain", as if completing the already irreproachable ensemble of the Peterhof residence.

"Samson", like the other fountains of Peterhof Every year they turn off for the winter and solemnly run in the spring. It happens, respectively, in September and May, but the exact numbers are better to specify in advance on the site of the palace-park ensemble. And do not skimp on this event - the launch of the fountains is considered one of the most beautiful holidays on the territory of Peterhof

Address: Peterhof Lower Park

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