This building is a pinkish-red shades have long gained fame thanks to the mystical ” area doubles’ It was here, according to tradition Empress Anna Ivanovna before his death saw his double, as Prince Vyazemsky saw himself sitting at the table and something writing. At the end of the 18th century princess Beloselsky acquired a small stone house on the corner of Nevsky and the Fontanka, but then decided to demolish it and build a three-story mansion in the Baroque style. His long...
Architect Rossi Street, unique in its architecture, street, its width is smooth height of buildings standing on it and ten times less than the length. Also, due to all the buildings on this street are made in the same style, it seems that this is one big dom.Raspolozhena the former territory of the Vorontsov Palace and Anichkov; most of the buildings occupied by a museum of music and performing arts, theater and library operating temple of the Holy...
Pushkin Apartment Museum, tells the story of the last days of the life of the famous Russian poet. The house belonged to the princess wound Volkonskaya this museum was opened in 1927. Initially exposition housed only a few rooms, but now she also holds and ground floor, where the tour begins in the tragic events that took place in the last months of the life of Alexander. The most valuable collection is an instance of this jacket in which the poet was shot in the match day, a lock of hair, a...
The Zoological Museum is one of the oldest in Russia, was previously part of the Kunstkammer Thirty thousand exhibits are divided into three zones: insects, pinnipeds and cetaceans;. fish, reptiles and birds; mammals, the latter being further divided into those climatic zones where they inhabit. Until 1896, he was in the same building as the Cabinet of Curiosities, but then moved to a separate building on the University Embankment. Now several laboratories are at the museum, themed tours and...
Anichkov Palace, the oldest surviving building of the Nevsky Prospekt. Its construction was begun in 1714 and was altered many times, when the building is transferred to the new owner, mostly royals as a gift to the wedding. So for example the royal family lived here in 1837, when the Winter Palace suffered a severe fire, it took his training the future Emperor Alexander II. During the Soviet era there was a short time the city museum, but later replaced by the Palace of Pioneers, then turned...
The Catherine Palace is one of the masterpieces of the late Baroque, located in the suburbs of St. Petersburg, Tsarskoye Selo (Pushkin). Initially it was laid as a small summer house of Catherine I, but he did not like the other, the Empress Elizabeth, and she ordered him to rebuild and in 1756, a huge, 325-meter mansion was opened around the world. During World War II the palace was badly damaged by the German occupiers, including the most famous part of the Amber Room, but the 300th...
