The monument of classical architecture, Catholic chapel (church) of the Order of the Knights of Malta. Added in 1798-1800 (architect G. Quarenghi.) To the main building Vorontsov Palace from the garden on the orders of the Grand Master of the Order – the Emperor Paul I. Chapel solved in a columned hall with a semicircular apse and two small chapels, characterized by monumental and strict simplicity of the facade, perfect proportions, beauty used in the design of the facade and interior...
Home Expeditions government revenue (the house “with four colonnades”), built in 1750 – 1760, presumably by architect AF Kokorinov – a monument of architecture in the style of classicism. The ground floor of the building is designed as an arcade, the building is decorated with four-columned portico of the Ionic order. The facades are decorated with decorative panels on mythological subjects. during the second half of the 19th century produced inside and outside the...
Nevsky, 20 – this is one of the oldest stone buildings Petersburg In 1715 is one-storey house for Major General Dupre was built.. This structure defined red lines Nevsky Prospect and the Moika Embankment. In 1719, by the next owner of the house peroeshel Dutch Reformed community and in the depth of the site it was built church. In the second half of the 18th century on the site erected a second building, the so-called “house Polota” originally garret, in the early 19th...
Loft Rizzordi Art Foundation Loft occupies the area of the former malt house on the street Kurland, 49 (4000 “squares”!). The brick array, designed by architect E. Jurgens in 1875, belongs to the clearest examples of the architecture of St. Petersburg of the second half of the 19th century. Loft spaces allow display in St. Petersburg the most current modern world-class projects, many – for the first time. And, do it – in full – with a large exhibition space,...
It is the only building in our city entirely devoted to this art form. It occupies a historic mansion of Baron von Derviz home with a rich history. The building was originally planned as an apartment house, but the new owner decided to alter in the then fashionable style of ” Empire ”. After immigration Baron in Paris and the sale of all its assets to the mansion was attached two more floors, but in 1910 it was reconstructed and built there the theater ” House of...
It is the largest private museum in Russia, which is world famous Faberge eggs. It exists only through the generosity of Russian businessman Viktor Vekselberg, who in 2004 acquired a collection of Russian jeweler of kings, eggs made the whole team of artists on the occasion of the most important events in the life of the royal family -naprimer egg ” Coronation ‘was presented to Nicholas II to Alexandra Fyodorovna after conclusion braka.Pomimo eggs, visitors can see the...