Alexander GardenАлександровский сад

Along the west wall of the Kremlin, Alexander Garden was laid out in 1819–23 under Alexander I as Moscow’s first public park, turning the rubble and rerouted Neglinnaya River after 1812 into a statement of recovery. Its clipped lawns and formal paths frame a corridor of state memory—from the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and the Eternal Flame (1967) to later monuments to the Patriotic War of 1812 and to Emperor Alexander I—so a daily stroll here becomes a quiet civic ritual.