Peter the Great Botanical Garden

Saint Petersburg · Russia

Peter the Great Botanical Garden, Russia
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Founded on Aptekarsky Island in 1714 as a medicinal plant garden, this Saint Petersburg institution holds long historic greenhouse galleries of palms and orchids. Its collections trace three centuries of Russian botany.

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