The building of the Main Staff-ring closes in the Palace Square, the Winter Palace creating neperedovaemoe sense of integrity. Construction of more than half a kilometer of the building lasted 10 years, from 1819 year. In addition to the above staff, there were also military, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Finance. With the advent of the headquarters of the Soviet regime took the People’s Commissariat of Foreign Affairs and the police station. During the blockade, it is not much...
The temple, whose construction went on from 1823 to 1825, built on the site of the house of the first Metropolitan of the Russian Empire, the temple pozhertvovavshaego this land. It is made in the classical style, and was the second Catholic church in St. Petersburg. After the October Revolution, the church was subject to repression, accompanied by confiscation of property and was closed in 1934. In the future, various businesses were located in the building of the temple and in the course of...
Construction of the park began October 7, 1945 on the site of Brick-pumice plant number 1, who served during the war crematorium. According to various calculations on it the remains of 100 to 600 thousand of Leningrad were burned during the war. Thus the area of the park has become a place of the most massive in the history of cremation two styles combine in the landscape design of the park -. Landscape and regular. Funnels from the brick factory shells and career have changed under...
Holy Trinity St. Sergius seaside desert – Orthodox Monastery, is now formally in the territory of the village of Strelna, in the city Planted in 1734. until 1918 he wore desert-grade status of the monastery, and from 1819 until 1834 was run by vicars of St. Petersburg – the bishops of Reval. Adjacent to Sergiev desert village with the same name of the railway station in 1918, named Volodarsky. In 2010, the railway station returned to its original name. In 1734 Empress Anna...
DC Gorky -. First in Leningrad Palace of Culture discovery was the tenth anniversary of the October Revolution of November 7, 1927. Name Gorky awarded July 8, 1929, at a ceremony in the presence of a well-known writer, in whose honor is named Palace of Culture. In 1937, the creator of the project was awarded the prize of the World Exhibition in Paris. In 1978, the Palace of Culture. Gorky was awarded the Order of Red Banner of Labor. Today Palace of Culture. Gorky remains popular theater and...
The historic landscape park in the southwest of the city, leading its history since the time of Peter. Park is located on the same island and bordering the river Ekateringofka, river Tarakanovka and paper channel. Not far from the park there is a metro station Narva. Park was mentioned in the works of Russian literature such as “The Idiot” and “Oblomov”. Postroyki.yu made in the park in the 19th century have not survived to the present day and their reconstruction at...