Petrodvorets (formerly Peterhof) enjoys world fame. Everyone who has been here, forever carries away in his heart the admiration of its charming beauty. In 1710, construction of Peter I's summer residence, Peterhof, began on the southern coast of the Gulf of Finland, 30 km from St. Petersburg. The pearl of art was its Lower Park - a magnificent ensemble with fountains, architectural monuments and sculptural decorations. There is an extensive literature on the monuments of Peterhof. The artistic advantages of parks, palaces-museums and fountains are described, the activities of foreign architects and sculptors invited by Peter the Great to carry out his plans are described in detail, and at the same time the role of Russian masters in the creation of Peterhof is not sufficiently shown. In most cases, only the names of Russian craftsmen are mentioned. And there are no works at all on the history of the construction of the Ropshinsky Canal, which feeds the famous Peterhof fountains with water. Archive documents page 212 they allow you to fill in this gap to some extent. The history of the Ropshinsky Canal construction is connected with the name of the talented Russian engineer Vasily Grigoryevich Tuvolkov (1697-1727). For the first time it is mentioned in the article by D. Meychik "Education of Russian masters and artists under Peter the Great". "Under the machinist Tuvolkov," the author writes, " there were academicians of geometry science: Fedor Kobylsky, Andrey Selivanov, Nikita Ladyzhensky, Nikolai Kruglyakov. In 1725, the machinist Tuvolkov, presenting Nikita Ladyzhensky for production as an apprentice, reports that this apprentice, along with other comrades, worked on locks and canals in the vicinity of St. Petersburg."1 More detailed information about Tuvolkov's work is provided by V. I. Pilyavsky: "A complex and grandiose system of water pipes, starting more than 20 kilometers from Peterhof on the Ropshinsky heights and now giving fountains about 12,000 cubic m ... Read more