An English oak seen in our collection’s watercolour View of a part of the Private Garden near the Alexander Palace, painted in 1917 by Tsesarevich Alexei’s personal physician Vladimir Derevenko (1879-1936), was greatly admired by the child Heir.
That oak did not survive. Yet in the lingering memory of the son of Nicholas II, the Alexander Park will have a new one planted in the same place. In early October 2011, fifty acorns from the park’s four over two-hundred-year-old English oaks were gathered by the Façade, Children’s and Kitchen Ponds, then to be seeded and brought up at our Greenhouses.
The new tree will grace the park in a few years after the coming restoration of the Alexander Palace and its Private Garden.
The oldest oak trees in the Alexander Park
| Place | Park Lot # | Tree age (years) |
Diameter (cm) |
Acorns gathered (pcs) |
| By the Façade Pond | 17 | 210 | 122 | 11 |
| By the Façade Pond | 17 | Circa 250 | 142 | 12 |
| By the Children's Pond | 24 | Circa 250 | 140 | 13 |
| By the Kitchen Pond | 38 | Circa 250 | 118 | 14 |
