Petersburg residence of Prince Grigory Potemkin-Tauride. Tauride Palace was erected by order of Catherine II for her favorite, Prince GA Potemkin. On the construction and decoration of the palace is allocated about 400 000 gold. The palace takes its name from the title of Prince of Tauride, which was granted the temporary worker in 1787, after joining the Crimea to the Russian Empire (Tauris). One of his jewelry is antique sculpture Venus Tauride, arrived in Russia under Peter I. After the...
Alexander Column, along with the Winter Palace, is one of the most recognizable and highest symbols of St. Petersburg. It was installed in 1834 to commemorate the victory over Napoleon, Alexander I. Granite for the column produced in a quarry near the town of Vyborg, like stones beneath its base, and both were monolithic, stone weighed about 400 tons each, and the column of about 1,100 tons. As a result, soil survey, found a suitable location near the center of the square, and at a depth of...
Many people in our town think that the building of a thought-it’s just a red clock tower, but it is not. It occupies part of the Duma and the streets adjacent to the facade of the so-called ” the silver series ” (as used to be called the building where merchants sold silver and precious stones) .Bashnya Duma preserved in its original form, similar to the medieval town hall, consisting of separate parts, but more often for the first inhabitants of St. Petersburg, it served as...
St. Vladimir’s Cathedral, dedicated to the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God, one of the most revered saints in our country. In fact, the cathedral consists of two parts, cold and teploy.Bogosluzheniya carried out only at the top (cold) church. The central dome is decorated with images of evangelists, and inside there is an iconostasis, preserved since the 18th century. The cathedral itself, five-domed, and the bell tower is separate from it. I get the status of the cathedral only in...
Great Mosque, the largest mosque in the European part of Russia, a monument of Islamic religious architecture mosque was officially opened on 22 February 1913, on the second day of the Romanov Celebrations .Stroitelstvo was dictated by the idea of freedom of belief, characteristic of Tsarist Russia policy: accession to Russia under Alexander III Central Asia at the court sought to respect the interests of the Muslim community. Jami Mosque, with two minarets and mezzanine prayer hall,...
Leningradsky Zoo is one of the oldest zoos in Russia and one of the northernmost zoos in the world. St. Petersburg zoo, now the Leningrad Zoo, one of the first zoos in Russia, was opened on the territory of the Alexander Park. Location of the zoo become a part of history of the city, and although not preserved buildings built before the Revolution, the overall layout was very similar to the layout of the late XIX veka.Zoosad zoo in St. Petersburg opened in 1865 as a private menagerie. But his...