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...
Ladoga station is one of the most modern and ergonomic in our city. It was built on the site of the former village Yablonevki to connect Nikolaev and Finnish Railways, but for its realization no one was taken until the end of the 20th century, when all the main highways We could not cope with nagrzukami. It was planned to build a station for the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg, which created additional difficulties, given the limited space in which it was necessary to place the building,...
Apartment house Rosenstein is one of the most remarkable buildings of the Petrograd district. Away and this place was a wooden house of a poor officer who otshel architect Rosenstein, when he participated in the flatness of the new district. The building was decided to build a castle in the form of English, combining with that of modern comfort, in the early 20th century, is rarely at home who were gas stoves, drying towels and built-in wardrobes in the apartments. Apartment house was almost...
Fair in the Palace of Culture. Krupskaya for more than 20 years has evolved from a market in krupneyushuyu Fair St. Petersburg books. If there is St. Peterbruge place where coexist harmoniously all the new Russian publishers and curiosities, the famous fiction and scientific works, as well as many more. Buyers go there for artistic and educational books, office supplies, consult the competent sellers of business literature. Here you can buy a book in a deluxe edition or pick up a beautifully...
The building of the Palace of Culture co-operatives was built in 1931-1938 years. In April 1935 there, at the initiative of SJ Marshak, was held the first celebration of children’s books. After that, he has been held continuously. The institution worked a variety of clubs, clubs, studios, lecture halls, a library, a theater, a cinema and a winter garden. The palace did not cease to work even during the blockade. In 1960, co-operatives Palace was renamed the Palace of Culture. Leningrad...