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...
Despite its young age, this market might be called a respected resident of St. Petersburg. It was founded in the late XIXth century by a merchant Ivan Sergeyevich Maltsev who knew that quite a few tradesmen would need new facilities.So, the merchants at the time could stay at the appartment houses nearby, which was very convenient. Then the government passed a law on free trade which stopped the monopoly of large markets. Middle men and entrepreneurs gradually disappeared as collective farms...
Theatre ”Baltic House”. A state institution, where festivals, forums and workshops every year Baltic House, one of a kind, that it helps to strengthen the cultural vsyazi between Russia and Evropoy.On was established in 20 -th of the last century as a theater for young workers, he gradually merged with other similar institutions and in 1936 became the State Theatre of Leninsky Komsomol. The building itself was built in the style of Stalin’s empire on the site of the former...