Mon Repos (Vyborg)
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Mon Repos (Russian: Монрепо́) is landscaped English park in Vyborg.
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"Mon Repos" is a manor home and landscaped park lying along the shoreline of the Zashchitnaya inlet of the Vyborg Bay in Finland, about 80 km from St. Petersburg. The park occupies 163 hectares of land. For about two hundred years (between 1788 - 1943) "Mon Repos" was owned by the family of Baron Nikolai. The historic core of the museum complex is a manor from early 1800's. This consists of the Main house and the Library wing, 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 as D. Martinelli, Au. Montferrand, A. Shtakenshneider, Ch.Tetam, artists Ya. Mattenleiter, P.Gonzago. The area of the park is marked by special physical and geographical features, one of them being unique glacial formations of up to 20 meters 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.
