ALUPKA
"Nowhere
except Alupka,- said E.L.Markov, the writer of the past century, in "Crimean
Essays",- I have not seen such combination of architectural genius with
the landscape painter's genius, the combination of sea with mountains,stones
with woods,
naturewildeness with civilization grace". Let's do justice to this landscape
painter,German gardener Karl Kebach who lead the laying the park out in
that romantic spring. With attentive studying of the park's planning system
its originality suddenly found out. Layed out by principle of amphitheatre
the whole composition contains spatial connections oriented according to
the world countries and extending from the base of amphitheatre "Tea House"
on the seaside to all the architectural objects of the park and palace,
to all the visible and invisible centres of landscape. Everything is invented
and consolidated by the strict logic of classical 
plan,
hiding under the free, picturesque lines of scenery garden.There are nearly
200 exotic kinds of trees and bushes, varieties and garden forms in the
park. Here palms and bay-trees, cypresses and olives, small and large-fruited
strawberry trees, chilean aracuria and guelder rose evergreen grow... The
park is layed out in landscape style which does not distort but supplements
nature as if it were untouched by the human hand. Everything is done with
skilful use of conglomeration stone mess, mountain springs, aboriginal vegetation.
The coastal highway divides the park on Upper and Lower. Upper
park is satiated with natural peps: severe stone messes and glassi ponds,
fragments of natural south coastal woods and groups of wonderful foreign
trees. All of them have poetic names: Moon Stone, Small and Large Chaoses;
Trout, Mirror and Swan Lakes; Platan, Sunny, Contrast, Chestnut glades.
The fountain "Trilbi" attracts everibody's attention. As for its structure
there are two assumptions: the first one explains its creation in 1829 in
memory of favourite dog, the other one is connected with metamorphosis image
of paradise pouring into the house and saved by faithful animals. In fact
with the name Trilbi which was brought into literature in 19 century by
French romantic Sharle Nodie in the story of the same name, is connected
with old and kind spirit, with disappearance of which the house was usually
becoming 
empty.
Lower park is arranged in Italian gardens style of Renaissance, there are
"Fountain of Tears" representing the variant of the famous Bakhchisaray
fountain glorified by A.S.Pushkin, the "Shell" fountain, "Cat's Eye" spring,
"Tea House" spring, the I.K.Ayvazovsky rock and at last lions' terrase with
three pairs of white marble lions: sleeping, awaking and kept vigil. The
inscription on the pedestal says that all the six sculptures are made from
carrach marble in the studio of the famous Italian sculptor V.Bonnani.
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