The only Russian leader in a thousand years who was a genuine gardener and who allowed himself to be recorded with a shovel in his hand was Joseph Stalin (lead image, mid-1930s). Compared to Stalin, the honouring of the new British king Charles III as a gardener pales into imitativeness and pretension.
short article regarding stalin as a gardner, with some strong words for the history of the british monarchy
That was not a shovel, it was a spoon.