St. Andrew’s Church, one of the first cathedrals of St. Petersburg. Founded in 1732, it was supposed to be the main church of the city, as it Vasileoostrovsky region Peter I planned to make a central, but after his death, Catherine I just carried on his work. A series of failures, such as lightning hit the building and collapse the dome, permanently transfers its opening and only in 1780 it began to function. After the October Revolution, the church has come into disrepair, it was used...
Hygiene Museum, founded in the early 20th century, took the idea of popularization of hygiene in reducing the common people. The museum is located in the former mansion of Count Shuvalov, built in the mid 18th century. Prior to that, there were the so-called anatomical theater, which was accessible only to physicians, but the first opening of the exhibition of this kind was a huge success, people like sanitary educate and raise their kulturu.Vo the Great Patriotic War, the current...
Smolensk church, one of the oldest Orthodox churches in St. Petersburg. She was laid back in 1758, became involved in the construction are now Saint Xenia of Petersburg. The church was built in the style of Russian classicism, it is a rectangular building with a two-tiered bell tower, painted in blue tsvet.Oblik it does not change much over time, but added new limits. Like most churches, before the war it was closed, despite the fact that it suffered one of the most famous Russian icon Our...
Small in size but huge in importance, this chapel is familiar to all indigenous peterbuzhtsam. Believed that the earth with her grave has healing properties, so the keepers of the cemetery many times had to fill up the ground, and then set the plate, which also dismantled on the rocks. In 1902, a chapel was built around the site of her burial in the old Russian style. Before the Great Patriotic War it was closed, and only seven years later began to function again. The very modest chapel...
When Emperor Peter I in this place was a wooden chapel. The first camp, the temple of the Life Guards Izmailovo Regiment was established in the summer near the mouth of the Fontanka River, in the village Kalinkina. After the transition of the regiment up the river in 1742, the temple was moved to the wooden barracks. Worship in the church were carried out only in the summer, as the temple was cold. The church was severely damaged during the flood in 1824. After the flood, it was decided to...
One of the most significant places of St. Petersburg, which is overgrown with legends due to its name. Even before the bridge in the first half of the XVIII century on this place was located the crossing of the River Moika, townspeople erected improvised. In 1738 iz for devices on the Moika granite embankments wooden pedestrian drawbridge was built. in 1768 the bridge was rebuilt in the travel, bridge design has been improved. bridge named in 1788 by the name of a merchant guild 3 Nikifor...