As a matter of fact, the Hermitage Garden was not always the way we are used to seeing it. It was even located in a different place: from 1830, almost until the very end of the 19th century, it was located on Bozhedomka and was the first pleasure garden in Moscow, with gazebos, flower beds, a theater, stage, coffee houses and pavilions. It reached its greatest prosperity in the era when it belonged to the famous entrepreneur, former actor of the Maly Theater M. V. Lentovsky. K. S. Stanislavsky recalled the Hermitage garden at that time: “There was nothing in this garden: boating on the pond and water fireworks of incredible richness and variety with the battle of armadillos and drowning them, walking on a tightrope across the pond, water holidays with gondolas, illuminated boats, bathing nymphs in the pond, ballet on the shore and in the water. Processions of a military band, gypsy choirs, Russian songwriters. All of Moscow and foreigners visiting it visited the famous garden.”