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Music for the Eyes: The Historical Restoration of the White Birch Area of Pavlovsky Park in St. Petersburg, Russia

Ecological Restoration, Vol. 23, No. 2, 2005 ISSN 1522-4740 E-ISSN 1543-4079 ©2005 by the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. Pavlovsky Park, which is located 16.5 miles (27 km) south of St. Petersburg, Russia (Figure 1), is one of the finest examples of landscape-style parks in the world. One of the largest European landscape parks (1,482 acres or 600 hectares), it impresses visitors with the extraordinary unanimity of its neo-Classic architecture and serene landscape features. The difference between Pavlovsky Park and European and other Russian landscape parks is that the beauty of Pavlovsky Park has been achieved by very simple means. In the opinion of Russian landscape design experts (Ilyinskaya 1993), Pavlovsky Park, in particular, represents the unadorned character of nature in northern Russia. In this article, I will describe the history of Pavlovsky Park, its landscape design and ecological aspects, and discuss efforts to restore the park to its authentic early nineteenth-century design.