In 1727, King Peter II brought a gift of the German Lutheran community wasteland close to Nevsky Prospect, is located between the Big and Small Konyushennaya Street. Construction of the church on the site was launched June 29, 1728, the day of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul. In 1730 the church was solemnly consecrated. The building was made of brick, included wooden cupola and can accommodate 1,500 people. In 1737, near the church built the two houses, which served as apartments for church...
House Basin is an example of disregard for the classical style prevailed then. This apartment house was built in 1878 by architect. The five-storey building with two facades and carved cockerels immediately catches the eye. The author of this project tried to mix the European experience with the Russian identity, stuck to the house designs based on wood carving and embroidery. Just then, the future Emperor Alexander III of, who lived in the Anichkov Palace and saw the construction of this work...
Kamenoostrovsky theater originally was only years actors out of the back of the wall opening to the nearby garden. Theatre, it was decided to open in late 1826, when the Grand Theatre went to rekonstruktsiyu.Tak it was located between the two park areas, and Yelagin Kamenoostrovsky, then there was no lack of vegetation, and it provided high sales. The building was erected in just 40 days, and his prime minister came to the Emperor Nicholas I. But because of the proximity of groundwater and...
Petersburg avant-garde museum fits in a modest two-story wooden building in the historic center of our city. also often called home Mikhnevich or Matyushina. Mihnevich was the first owner of the building, well-known journalist actively communicate with the public in need of writers and even donated a large sum of his base, and after his death the house was transferred to the obschestva.Zdes are living people of creative professions, who had enough money to pay for their own rent. This found...
Apartment house Benoit, Benoit or three house-designed specifically for the first Russian insurance company. Consisting of 250 apartments, it was the largest in the pre-revolutionary St. Petersburg, but the building was erected in just over a year. In addition to our usual amenities in each apartment also had its own power plant, boiler room, laundry room, furnace for burning garbage. The facade ukrazhen lots of carved ornaments, and the first two floors are tiled, brought here from Sweden....
In St. John are the relics of the patron saint and founder of the monastery, St. John of Kronstadt. It was founded on the personal orders of Nicholas II in 1900 on the banks of the Karpovka River. It was originally planned to build only the temple, but because it was donated to another piece of land, then it built four-storeyed building with the cells and workshops. With the arrival of the Soviet regime the monastery was turned into a labor commune, nuns were sent to Kazakhstan, and the tomb...