Georg Friedrich Ferdinand Kuphaldt (6 June 1853, Plön

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, Holstein

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 — 14 April 1938, Berlin

Berlin

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, Germany

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) was an influential German landscape architect

Landscape architect

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, gardener and dendrologist of the Russian Empire

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At the age of 27, Kuphaldt was promoted to the perhaps most prestigeful position in his career as director of the city gardens and parks in Riga

Riga

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. The following almost 35 years he was in charge of establishing and developing the newly created administration of the city's gardens and parks, of which structures has been preserved until today. In the period from 1880 to 1914 he was also involved in planning parks and gardens throughout the Russian Empire. Some of the most renowned works of Kuphaldt are the gardens of the Winter Palace

Winter Palace

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 and Oranienbaum

Oranienbaum, Russia

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 in Saint Petersburg

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 as well as locations in Nizhny Novgorod

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, Dagomys

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 in Sochi

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, Tsarskoye Selo

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 and Catharinenthal Palace

Kadriorg Palace

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 in Reval

Tallinn

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(now Tallin).