Nicolaas Bidloo
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Nicolaas Bidloo was a Dutch physician who served as the personal physician of Tsar Peter I of Russia. Bidloo was the director of the first hospital in Russia as well as the first medical school in Rus
Illustration of Descriptio monstri humani bicipitis published in Acta Eruditorum, 1706
Summer Garden
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The Summer Garden is a historic public garden that occupies an eponymous island between the Neva, Fontanka, Moika, and the Swan Canal in downtown Saint Petersburg, Russia and shares its name with the
Vista through the Summer Garden towards the Summer Palace, 1716
![The palace as seen from across the Fontanka River from a small Prachechniy ("(Royal) Laundry") Bridge [ru] along Kutuzov Embankment in August 2007.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%B4_%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%9B%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%B4_%D1%81_%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%87%D0%B5%D1%87%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE_%D0%BC%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0.jpg/500px-%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%B4_%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%9B%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%B4_%D1%81_%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%87%D0%B5%D1%87%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE_%D0%BC%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0.jpg)
The palace as seen from across the Fontanka River from a small Prachechniy ("(Royal) Laundry") Bridge [ru] along Kutuzov Embankment in August 2007.
The railing of Summer Garden
The monument to Ivan Krylov in Summer Garden