VIEW OF THE FONTANKA FROM THE GROTTO AND THE RESERVED PALACE. Unknown Western European engraver. View of the Fontanka River from the Grotto and the Reserve Palace. Engraving with a cutter, etching. Real watercolor painting. Around 1775. Size: 36 x 48 cm. Engraving from the original by G.A. Kachalov 1753 according to the drawing by M.I. Makhaeva. Engraving Avenue on the Fontanka River, view from the Grotto and the Reserve Palace, noon. From the album "Plan of the capital city" of St. Petersburg, with the image of famous avenues, published by the works of the Imperial Academy of Sciences and Arts of St. Petersburg, released for the fiftieth anniversary of the city in 1753. On the left bank of the Fontanka there was the building of the Reserve Palace, where supplies were brought for the needs of the Summer Palace, the residence of Peter I. In front of the bridge was the Special Shipyard, founded in 1716-1717. and rebuilt A.I. Korobov in the late 1730s. To the right is a part of the Summer Garden and the Grotto. The creation of the Summer Garden took place under the control of Peter I himself. The grotto (dismantled at the beginning of the 19th century) was a small pavilion decorated with sea stones, shells and fountains.