The park next to the Admiralty building between Dvortsovskaya Ploschad and Senatskaya Ploschad is known as Aleksandrovsky Gardens (Alexander Gardens) after Emperor Alexander II.  It was officially opened in 1874.  Among its trees there are a fountain, copies of the Farnese Hercules and the Farnese Flora, and busts of the writer Nikolai Gogol, the poets Mikhail Lermontov and Vasily Zhukovsky, the composer Mikhail Glinka, the statesman Aleksandr Gorchakov and the explorer Nikolai Przhevalsky (which features a statue of a camel at its base).

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