Create a park in the floodplain of the creek recreation area, it was decided as early as 1980, but for a long time delayed the start of work. Activities on preparation of land and bed only began in the early 2000s. The first phase was created in the upper part of the park. Duty of maintenance of the urban object sat down on a specially created JSC “Murinsky Park”, under the supervision of the park which is to this day. The works carried out in the park under the state contract,...
Residential “Profitable” house, which is difficult to confuse with any other. Built in 1913 for the widow of State Councillor, the building was decorated in Egyptian style that was fashionable at the time. With many decorative elements, this house became one of the most striking pieces of architecture in the spirit of Russian Art Nouveau, and the number of snakes in facade design -. the most “snake” house in St. Petersburg Before world war I, the building disposes...
The first theater opened its doors on November 8, 1883. One of the “secrets” of the building is that the façade designed by Carlo Rossi in order to enter the building to the general ensemble of the square. The architect Alexander Bryullov, a connoisseur of art, created the “Magic Box”: that of the humble facade, theater, can only guess at the roof, where a dome above the auditorium is visible high box scene. Today the theater, keeping faithful to the age-old traditions...
The Buddhist temple in St-Petersburg is the northernmost in the world. As a matter of fact, the Buddhist community did not exist in the city before the XXth century, there used to be Buryat and Kalmyk newcomers only. The temple was built on donations and turned out to be one of the most expensive one in Europe at the time. Buddhist temples were mostly wooden, and this one was made of crushed granite. Opened at the tercentenary of the Romanov dynasty in 1913, the temple only worked for three...
Suvorina Petersburg dubbed King Lear for the dark secrets surrounding his life. Born into a poor peasant family, he achieved outstanding success, becoming a journalist, publisher, playwright, theater director and critic. Wide publicity was the murder of his wife, AI Baranova, her lover who committed suicide later and first re-marriage Suvorina. Seven pursued tragedy – illness, escapes and suicides of children, jealousy and envy of the eldest son to his father-in-law’s death. At...
Trinity Church ” cake and Easter ” derives its name from the fact that it looks similar to the Easter dishes. Building was built in five years in the late 18th century in the classical style, on a special request of the customer it was built it in this form, it was located in the village belonging to him. Both buildings are painted in the traditional colors of the St Petersburg-tan, but in spite of the apparent spaciousness created by the absence of the drum on the dome, they were...