Transformations of the symbolic landscape elements of the Kharitonov garden, Yekaterinburg
This article is devoted to current issues in the restoration by the example of the object of heritage of the Federal value «the House of Kharitonov, XIX century». The garden at the estate of Kharitonov-Rastorguev was laid in 1820-ies designed in the English style. It is unique as the only surviving public Park in the city of Yekaterinburg.The aim of the present work is to trace the transformation of the emblematic elements of the landscape architecture in the Park. For the study there were chosen the objects, both under protection and preserved and lost, but particularly valuable for structural planning of the Park: arbours, dome rotunda, rotunda-fountain, pond and adjacent row plantings, radial paths. There are marked four stages of garden transformation. At the beginning of each stage the garden was given a new functional purpose: a private plot of land, public amusement park, soviet park of culture and recreation, modern public park of historical heritage, but due to the absence of the proper care and territory development plan it remained neglected before each of the subsequent reconstructions. By the present time the garden has undergone significant changes of its historic appearance. This was most clearly expressed in the change of symbolic small architectural forms: pavilions, arbors, rotunda, grotto and others. To return the heritage look to its original appearance, it is necessary to restore the appropriate historical landscape plantings survived in the park photographs of the early XX century as well as small architectural forms of the heyday, namely the 40-60-ies of the XIX century which most express the style of the park.