Marat-soediniyaet street Nevsky Prospekt and the Bypass canal in it is also a museum of Dostoevsky. With the base year, it was called the Transfiguration, as it would make a bit longer to Kirochnaya street, where at that time lodged the same polk.Pochti century after the street give another name Nicholas, because of the death of Emperor Nicholas I. Came to power the communists also renamed it to the prospectus on 27 February in honor of bolshevistkoy revolyutsii.Odnako year later she still...
The house has changed several owners before being bought Varvara Petrovna Kelch. Having inherited gold mines in Siberia, it does not stint on the restructuring of the mansion. Extremely it was richly decorated not only the facade, but also its interiors. Kelch family was a client of Faberge, ordered Easter eggs, cutlery, jewelery. It was in their living room Yellow exhibited the famous Easter eggs made by Faberge After Barbara divorced her husband and moved to Paris mansion was built and...
Center presents the work of renowned masters of Russian and foreign photographers. Addition exhibited as works of young talented artists in these pictures close to the genres of contemporary art such as video art, photo installation, animation, experimental films. Important direction in the activity of ROSPHOTO are exhibition and research projects that address not only the exposition, but also scientific problems, to create a monograph examining the photo in volume historical and artistic...
Foundry Avenue, connects the eponymous bridge and the main road of the city. He is one of the oldest in the city and is named after the cast house, created by Peter I in 1711. In the first years of its existence it mainly zasilyalsya workers from the factory and all the buildings were constructed of wood, was beside the labor exchange for podnevnyh workers, and in connection with a high mortality Mariinsky hospital was built. In the early 19th century, part of the avenue was named Vladmirskim...
Neva, the main water artery of the city and the only river flowing from Lake Ladoga. Its name comes from the Finno-Swedish peoples who inhabited these lands before, and it means ‘swamp’. Neva width of 400-600 meters, in the delta reaches kilometer depth ranges from 4 meters in Ivanovo thresholds to 24 in Foundry Bridge. Most famous for the river for its floods, which occur due to the westerly winds blow up the water in the Gulf of Finland and thus raise the level of the river. Due...
This is the second temple, after the laurels dedicated to this saint and national hero. At this point in the early 13th century there was a chapel dedicated to the victory over the Swedes in the Battle of the Neva. After several hundred years already Peter I erects a wooden church here, but after it burned several times by lightning, at the end of the 18th century stone church was built by the believers, then warmed and expanded by an attached refectory and bell tower. In Soviet times it...