Tsar Peter the Great created the Summer Garden, surrounded by beautiful iron fences, in 1704. Most of the trees and all 250 statues were imported from Italy. For a century, it was the exclusive domain of people of the highest rank. Tsar Nicholas I opened it up to ‘well-dressed people,’ but these days they don't care what you wear.  These statues have seen it all.  There's a display of twelve funky handturned iron chairs positioned in a circle, each one made by different blacksmiths.