The Alexander Garden (Moscow) | memorial, park, place with historical importance

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Alexander Garden is one of the first public parks in Moscow is situated along the western Kremlin wall in front of the Moscow Manege.

Designed by Osip Bove, Neglinnaya riverbed was converted to a public park between 1819-1823. A ruined grotto was constructed to Bove's design underneath the Middle Arsenal Tower in 1841. The park comprises three separate gardens, which stretch along the western Kremlin wall for 865 meters.

The park's most prominent feature is the outlying Kutafya Tower of the Moscow Kremlin. The garden's cast iron gate and grille were designed to commemorate the Russian victories over Napoleon.

The obelisk erected in 1914 in the Upper Garden, was reconstructed by the Bolsheviks into a monument. The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier with eternal flame brought from the Field of Mars in Leningrad was constructed in 1967. The Post Number One, where the sentinels stand on guard, used to be located in front of the Lenin's Mausoleum, but was moved to the Tomb of The Unknown Soldier in the 1990s.