Maxim Gorky Park in Rostov-on-Don

About museum

There is no Rostov resident who hasn't been to the Central Park named after Maxim Gorky. Yet few know that the park celebrated its 200th anniversary in 2013. Its history includes many joyful and tragic events inseparable from the history of Rostov. Today it offers residents and visitors the beautiful May bloom of lilacs and jasmine, acacias and chestnuts, summer shade from the trees and the coolness of fountains, the golden attire of the foliage in October and the bright last flowers of the season. Here remain trees that remember the sound of wind (brass) orchestras, alleys once strolled by grammar school pupils and members of the city Duma, a pavilion of openwork wrought-iron elements from the pre-revolutionary era, and flowerbeds with floral ornaments. Art historians and philosophers assert that 'a garden is an attempt to create an ideal world of relations between humans and nature.' In 1811, when the first plan of Rostov-on-Don was drawn up, 'blocks for gardens' were marked out on the territory of the Generalnaya Balka, and one of those blocks became the Public City Garden.