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The parish churches, cathedral, and cemetery - all are surrounded by (the suggestion of) garden spaces.

Vyborg is rife with greenery. Some of the spaces seem wild - forests, perhaps - while others appear to have been tamed by boundary lines. None violate the space of the town proper (see the area demarcated with a bold black line and labeled with Roman…

Like Moscow, the imperial capital has too much greenspace to annotate. It is everywhere: thicker in some areas, particularly on the islands north of the Peter and Paul Fortress, but tucked into almost every nook and cranny of the city.

Without label or definition, these bits of greenery suggest to the viewer that there were more where these came from - that the space along the Azov Sea and north of the town were full of scrub and grasses subject to the salt air.

An array of - what look to be - proper gardens, along with features such as churches that are ensconced in garden space.

Gardens provide an axis of greenery in Berdichev. They surround a church and the site of the hospital (6), and make the pension near the eastern entrance to the town far more attractive.

There are 4 sites. They surround the bishop's residence (C), the Elets monastery (B), and the intended site of the governor's residence. This last garden space was intended to include the governor's stables.

A little gem of a garden nestled among the shops on the east side.

This is the governor's garden. The governor's residence (1) likely opened directly onto it.