The space between the Fontanka and Sadovaya Street was brought as a gift to Prince Peter I Grigory Yusupov at the beginning of the XVIII century. Prince built a house from a tree and broke a picturesque garden with two ponds and flower garden. Then, in the 1790s, the architect Giacomo Quarenghi changed and reschedule part of the palace garden. In 1810 the estate was purchased by the state and the park opened greenhouses and fountains built along Sadovaya Street established an array of cast...
It was opened in the centenary year of this amazing family that has made an enormous contribution to the study of our neobyatnoy homeland. Museum was established in the building at the Lieutenant Schmidt Embankment, which it is based were put things stored Mitusova family and other friends of the Roerich. But to have survived not all the exhibits, most of the killed during the repression and the blockade and the works were transferred to the Russian Museum. In the postwar years, after the...
Moscow Triumphal Gate represent a triumphal arch, erected in 1834-1838 gg. in St. Petersburg in honor of the victory in the Russian-Turkish war of 1828-1829. Gate located at the intersection of Moscow and Ligovsky Avenues, in an area called the Moskovskie Vorota. In 1936 they were demolished in connection with the beginning of the Incarnation the idea of moving the center to the south of the main square near the House of Soviets in the Moscow area. Moskovskie Vorota this project planned...
Griffins’ tower ‘or’ Digital Tower – tube boiler of red bricks, blocks, located in the courtyard of one of the oldest pharmacies in the 7th line of Vasilevsky Island. Since 1858 the pharmacy was owned by William Pel and his sons. At the moment, it is to identify a monument of cultural heritage of regional significance. In the yard come people who dream about fulfilling their desires. Definitely not found anyone Tower and for what purpose was built, and it has generated...
In the delta of the city’s main rivers – the Neva is ideally located cozy Elagin island Almost all of its space occupies the Central Park of Culture and Rest named after SM Kirov.. This is one of the best places to walk Petersburg as walking and cycling or boat. Initially offered in this area to create a classic French park, however, under the leadership of George W. Bush changed his plan of landscaped English style. Park for a long time to recover after the Great Patriotic War,...
Victory Square is in place, the former in the XVIII century, an intermediate guard post in front of St. Petersburg, where now there are Moscow and Pulkovo Highway first of the posts are placed at the foot of the Pulkovo heights, the third and final, -. At Ligovsky Canal. In the middle of the XVIII century at the current Victory Square appeared wooden signpost depicting a hand showing the direction of St. Petersburg, Moscow, Tsarskoye Selo and Peterhof. they were at one time in four, in another...