Botanical Garden Tsitsin in Moscow(Russia)
In Moscow there is a lot of
very interesting places related to the history, culture or science. This city
for centuries formed from a variety of trends, then falling into a radical
Westernism, then developing their own unique architectural and cultural
solutions. However, in both cases the Russian capital city remained, in some
way, even a reference, which was not so much a place of beauty of nature. Even
parks are very clearly defined and, so to speak, caught in the framework of
streets and houses. However, there is a place in Moscow where you can touch the
nature in its most amazing forms, - Botanical Garden RAS, located on the ENEA.
He impresses with its lavish collection - about seventeen thousand plants - and
size.
The idea to split lush gardens
is not original, but such an ambitious plan - to create a unique nature
reserve, combining demonstration of natural beauty and the best examples of
landscape design with space for scientific work - there was a relatively long
time. Back in the late thirties considered projects located in areas of Moscow Botanical Garden. In the forties there were already more or less concrete
plans, but they were interrupted by the war. Construction was re-thought in the
postwar years. Under the leadership of A.Schuseva and N.Tsitsina was a master
plan construction, the implementation of which involved mainly in the fifties
and seventies. However, the botanical garden is periodically updated and
supplemented today. For example, in the early nineties efforts of scientists
and landscape designers was recreated moorland with stones, fragments of whole
rocks, dozens of species of heather, shrubs and dwarf conifers. It repeats its
unique view of mountain ecosystems and is especially beautiful in autumn, when
the heather blooms.
In the eighties, in the
Botanic Garden Japanese architect worked. He posted this here old pagoda and a
huge garden in traditional Japanese style, which included ponds, waterfalls,
walkways, specially arranged stones and more than a hundred species of plants
brought from the island of Hokkaido. There is a botanical garden and a rose
garden, surrounded by huge oak trees that protect the delicate flowers from the
harsh Russian weather. And the biggest exposure - is a huge arboretum, takes
about six hundred acres, which collected several dozen examples of different
landscapes from around the world.
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