🇷🇺Russia·Open to the public
Palm House, Peter the Great Botanical Garden
Saint Petersburg
- Year
- 1896–1898
- Style
- Historic iron-and-glass greenhouse, an evolving complex from the 19th and early 20th centuries
- Dimensions
- About 1 hectare of combined glazed area across the whole greenhouse complex
« Bombed during the Siege of Leningrad, the greenhouse saved only a handful of plants out of its thousands of species — it now shelters more than 7,500. »
The successor to the apothecaries' garden founded by Peter the Great in 1713, the Saint Petersburg Botanical Garden built its great palm house between 1896 and 1898, as its collections were expanding to around 15,000 species, then one of the richest in the world. The greenhouse complex was almost entirely destroyed by German bombing during the Siege of Leningrad, leaving barely more than 250 plants standing. Rebuilt after the war, it now houses more than 7,500 plants once again, along with one of Europe's largest Victoria regia water-lily ponds, 13 meters across.
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59.97° N, 30.32° E