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Bypass Canal is the largest in our city and was built to protect against floods He began digging in 1769 and finished only 10 years later, but he was unable to save the city from the water.; basically it was used for shipping and disposal of waste. In addition to various factories near Kanli also were rooming house for the poor and the hospital, so the smell was nauseating, not only from the water. By the mid-19th century there were the Baltic and Warsaw stations, and various churches. Now the...

Its length is just 400 meters away and there are 8 houses, but that does not stop it from being one of the most popular places in our city. Samu embankment used for a long time, but to clothe it in granite decided only in the late 19th century, when special harbor for repair korabley.Vsego for the year were carried out major works for which funds have been directed to the sale of land at verfi.Pozzhe lions were placed, made of sheet copper, polished porphyry vases and sculpture ”...

Maly Drama Theatre was founded relatively recently in 1944, after his famous brother. In fact, he did not even have space where the actors could rehearse or perform, so they ezdlili the villages and towns of the Leningrad region. But thanks to a new supervisor, student Tovstonogov, who then put a scandalous play ” House ”, public attention has been drawn. He was replaced by no less talented man, Lev Dodin, who spent Theatre Festival ‘Golden Mask’ ‘and revived...

Palace of the Counts Sheremetev, located on the Fontanka, is now studying music. Worth Museum at the site of stone two-storey building was built in the mid-18th century, but the land for a long time was donated by Peter I and before the October Revolution, lived here all descendants Sheremetievs. With the coming to power kommkunistov here disposes museum nobility, the basis of which just served as the palace. Already in the late 90s of the 20th century ONET became a branch of the Museum of...

The monumental building with a glorious history first building on the site was the home of His Serene Highness Prince AD Menshikov. Later the house passed into the ownership of the Vice-Chancellor A. Osterman, then chancellor AP Bestuzhev-Ryumin, for which it was rebuilt in the style of “baroque”. In 1763 the building after the next adjustment, the Senate moved. In 1780-1790-ies the building was again rebuilt, this time – in the style of Russian classicism, apparently,...

According to legend, it was under the Troitsky Bridge made his famous flight pilot Valery Chkalov and also held here Pulkovo Meridian. It is the third-highest and second longest after the bridge Aleksandar Nevski. In the early 19th century, there existed only a simple floating wooden bridge called St. Petersburg, but he quickly came into disrepair, and it was replaced by a granite block and foundations. The bridge was first applied decoration railings and lampposts, some of which were covered...