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A neat garden area adjacent to the bazaar.

Be sure to open the Buguruslan "canvas" - the town is filled with greenery beyond the walls of this central garden.

Not every town encloses its churches and monasteries in glorious garden space, but Yekaterinburg surely does. In each case, the garden serves as an adornment for a religious space.

In addition to the tree-lined promenades, this plan articulates several parks or gardens. Look closely and you will see walking paths and ponds or pools. You can almost smell the flowers.

The Moscow plan is filled with greenery, from formal gardens like this to stretches of vegetation and tree-lined streets. It is too much to annotate - let's agree that this single green rectangle serves as placeholder for the complex geometries of…

One of the few vineyards noted on the plans.

What looks to be a vegetated area that makes an incursion through the western town wall. One can almost make out a walking path with a circular center.

The dense vegetation of this small area is distinguishable from the tree-lined "parks."

The plan doesn't tell us what kind of fruits were (or were intended to be) under cultivation - only that they were the signature element of the empire's plan for this Volga River town.

A sprawling garden that appears contained within monastery walls (despite the poor condition of the image and the apparent fold of the original plan sheet).