The Kronstadt Summer Garden was founded by Peter I in 1711. It became one of the first attractions of the fortress city. In those years, the Northern War was in full swing. Defensive forts were being actively built in Kronstadt, but the tsar and the nobles needed a place where they could rest.
The Kronstadt Summer Garden is located on Peter Street, which stretches along the southern shore of the island. In the 18th century, the main buildings of the city were located along Peter Street between the Italian Pond and the Summer Garden. There was a small house of Peter I near the Summer Garden, but it has not survived to this day.
The fence of the Kronstadt Summer Garden was made in 1873 at the Kronstadt Steamship Plant, designed by architect Windelbandt. The architect and the factory workers tried to make the fence of their Summer Garden as beautiful as the fence of the Summer Garden in St. Petersburg.
In the far part of the Summer Garden there is a Dock pool. It is lined with stones and looks very beautiful. The dome of the Naval St. Nicholas Cathedral rises above it. The Dock pool is part of the hydro engineering system of the Dry Peter Dock. The ships entered the Peter Dock for repairs, after that water was pumped out in it. This water from the dock through a special channel (400 meters long) was supplied to the Dock Pool in the Summer Garden.
At the end of the 19th century, the repair of ships in Peter Dock was stopped and the Dock Pool became an attraction of the Summer Garden. A park area was also created in the canal that connected the dock and the pool in the Summer Garden. Now it is called Ravine Park.
In the Summer Garden of Kronstadt there are paths for walking among oaks and linden trees. Near one of the oaks there is a sign that it was planted by Admiral Makarov in 1902. There is a grotto, beautiful flower beds and several monuments: a monument to the lost sailors on the clipper Oprichnik (1873), a monument to midshipman Domashenko, a memorial granite slab to John Paul Jones.
