It is located between Palace Embankment and the junction of the embankment of the Swan Canal and Millionnaya Street, at the southern end of the Trinity Bridge and the northern end of the Field of Mars.
[1] It is bordered to the east by the Saltykov Mansion and to the west by the service wing of the Marble Palace.
[1] Construction on the left bank of the Neva began in the early years of the city's foundation.
[2] By the late eighteenth century, the plot of land to the west of the Saltykov Mansion was owned by Alexander Vorontsov.
[3] In 1818, the garden was bought by the treasury and redeveloped into a square to the designs of architect Carlo Rossi.