Museum of playing cards-the only such object in Russia. It is located in a building built in the late 18th century, in which the high society of St. Petersburg was going to have a good time, including playing cards. The discovery ekpozitsii was in 2007, its owner, Alexander Perelman more than 30 years of collecting this collection. He wanted to open it before, in the form of a house of cards, but the Soviet authorities were against such facilities and gambling in general, the more so because...
Engineers bridge is named after the castle, located on one of its sides. As usual wooden pedestrian pontoon bridge was first built in 1720, which stood for nearly a century, until in 1825 was not made of cast iron bridge at the new Ironworks, whose base rested on the granite foundations. In addition to the extremely lightweight construction the bridge was an unusually richly decorated-iron helmets, spears and shields on the arches, reschetka-heads of Medusa and swords. In the middle of the 21...
The park was created in the years 1960-1970 on the centenary of Lenin on site swamp. Park planned for this obazom to encompass regular and landscape planning, connected the wide alley, looked out to the Gulf of Finland. However, the plan was not implemented, as the authorities of the houses built up the park. Now alleys regular part of South Seaside Park planted with spruce, fir, linden trees, oaks, elms, horse chestnuts, weeping willows. A landscape like a part of a forest. Two artificial...
The history of the park dates back to 1840 when the rich St. Petersburg Lieutenant General GG Kushelёv bought the estate Buksgevdenom family In this area are seven villages -. Ligovo, Ivanovo, Staro-Panovo, Novo-Panovo, Sosnovka, Novo Koyrovka and new, and to rebuild the manor was invited by a famous architect A. Stackenschneider. Breakdown of the English landscape park has been initiated, created paths and alleys. Local attractions that are open after the Count’s death, became the...
Shuvalov park is named after the Counts Shuvalov, the owners of the manor Pargolovskaya after Peter Ivanovich was granted in 1746 the title of Count. With the death in 1903 of Prince Vorontsov, Shuvalov, the last of the younger kind of branch, land received in the inheritance of his husband sister Elizabeth, the Count Illarion Ivanovich Vorontsov-Dashkov. At that time, the park dimensions were 5799 tithes. In the 1820s. at the behest of the Countess VP Shuvalov was completed redevelopment of...
Meanwhile Catherine and Alexander Parks passes Podkaprizovaya road It got its name from the two facilities -. Small and Big whim. Structures are artificial mound formed with arched spans, through which the road passes. The idea belonged to the vagaries of the VI Neelova who erected them in the years 1770-1774. Grand Caprice has a grand arch in width greater than 5, and in height – 7 meters. Second, a smaller arch was built nearby, in an earthen embankment. At the top of the Grand...