6: The Garden on the side of the Admiralty

		The fountain in the garden Full size image
		The Saltykov entrance Full size image

The garden adjacent to the western facade of the Winter Palace was laid out in the late19th century when the noise of the city traffic, including newly introduced horse-drawn tramways, made it necessary to separate the palace from the street. The laying out of the garden, carried out under the supervision of the architect Nikolai Kramskoy, required that the level of the ground should be raised by 1 metre on the area of more than 13151square metres). The area was planted with maples, elms, ash-trees and Dutch limes and adorned with a fountain designed by the architect Reinhold Schmeling. In 1901 the garden was surrounded with a fence constructed to the design of the architect Robert Meltzer. The fence was mounted on a high base of pink sandstone and decorated with a pattern of acanthus leaves, the recurrent monogram of Nicholas II and the double-headed eagle. In 1928 the fence was transported to the Stachek (Strikes) Prospekt to decorate the 9th of January Garden commemorating the victims shot dead during the demonstration held on 9 January 1905 in front of the Winter Palace.