Mon Repos (Vyborg)

Mon Repos (Russian: Монрепо́) is landscaped English park in Vyborg.

"Monrepos" (French "my rest", here written in one word) is a manor house and landscaped park lying along the shoreline of the Zashchitnaya inlet of the Vyborg Bay in Russia, about 80 kilometres (50 mi) from St. Petersburg. The park occupies about 180 hectares (440 acres) of land. Between 1788, when Ludwig Heinrich von Nicolai bought it, and 1943, "Monrepos" was owned by the family of Baron Nicolai (better Nicolay). The historic core of the museum complex is a manor from early 1800's. This consists of the Main house and the Library house, monuments of wooden classical architecture, and the landscape rock park designed in the romantic style, and which remains a unique monument of gardening art. Among the park designers were such architects like D. Martinelli, Auguste de Montferrand, A. Shtakenshneider, Ch.Tetam, artists Ya. Mattenleiter, and P.Gonzago. The area of the park is marked by special physical and geographical features, like the old Wiborgite Granite, which is named after Vyborg, and glacial formations of up to 20 metres (66 ft) high. In this nature reserve, 50 species of different plants can be found, some of them being rare. Its fauna is diverse as well: the park abounds in numerous birds and animals.

Literature

  • Ludwig Heinrich von Nicolay, Das Landgut Monrepos in Finnland, (1804), Faksimile der Ausgabe 1840, (1995), herausgegeben von der Pückler-Gesellschaft e.V., Berlin
  • Renée Elton Maud, One Year at the Russian Court: 1904–1905, (1918), John Lane, London
  • Edmund Heier, L. H. Nicolay (1737–1820) and his contemporaries, (1965), Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague
  • Paul Gundersen, Paul Nicolay of Monrepos – a European with a difference, (2003), Näkymä, Publishers, Helsinki
  • Rainer Knapas, Monrepos, Ludwig Heinrich Nicolay och hans värld i 1700-talets ryska Finland, (2003), Atlantis, Stockholm
  • Rainer Knapas, Monrepos, une arcadie des lumières, Saint-Pétersbourg, Vyborg, Helsinki, (2008), Société de Littérature Finnoise, Helsinki

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Frank Rodríguez
2 August 2015
Very special And beautiful park.
Ilia Andrianov
28 October 2015
Really pleasant place to walk
This is Ana
23 April 2017
Mystery place
Vladimir Abramichev
29 May 2016
Great hiking
This is Ana
23 April 2017
Mystery place. Very beautiful
Mary Nek
31 May 2013
Однозначно один из самых красивых парков, в котором можно специально по теряться))))
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Tenistaya ulitsa, 56, Vyborg, Leningrad Oblast, Russia, 188811 Get directions
Sat 11:00 AM–9:00 PM
Sun 11:00 AM–8:00 PM
Mon-Tue 1:00 PM–6:00 PM
Wed 1:00 PM–5:00 PM
Thu 2:00 PM–6:00 PM

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