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Smolny Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ
Smolny Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ

One of the most beautiful churches of St. Petersburg. Erected in the XVIII century on the project Rastrelli. In terms of the monastery is a Greek cross with the cathedral in the center and four churches on the corners. Joining in the chorus of the monastery buildings, the facade of the cathedral at the bottom of the style of architecture is much more like a palace than a temple. Architectural solution Cathedral creates the illusion of his unusual size. As the building is visually reduced,...

Suvorov Museum
Suvorov Museum

Museum dedicated to the memory of Generalissimo AV Suvorov (1729-1800). Was founded in 1900 in honor of the centenary of the death of the commander and inaugurated four years later, in 1904, to the 175th anniversary of Suvorov’s birth. Suvorov was the first person in Russia, in whose honor the memorial museum was erected. The building on the corner of Kirochnaya and Taurian Street was built specifically for the project of the museum AI Gauguin’s background in the style of old...

Engineers castle
Engineers castle

St. Michael’s or Engineer Castle, the largest architectural monument, the final story themselves Petersburg architecture of the XVIII century. Its name Mikhailovsky Castle obliged the occupants temple of Archangel Michael, the patron saint of the Romanov dynasty, and fad Paul I, who took the title of Grand Master of the Order of Malta, called all its palaces “locks”; the second name – “Engineering” comes from there is since 1823 the Chief Engineering School....

Spaso-Preobpazhensky sobor
Spaso-Preobpazhensky sobor

Spaso-Preobpazhensky sobor (the official name – Cathedral Preobrazheniya Gospodnya entire Guard) in St. Petersburg -. Pravoslavny Temple St. Peterburgskoy and Ladozhskoy diocese Russkoy Pravoslavnoy Church on Preobrazhenskoy area Postroen s projects by Stasov in 1829 godu on the site of an earlier temple. . The monument of classical architecture never close to bogosluzheniya; in 1920 – 1940 in Semidetached periody nahodilsya run by different “obnovlencheskih”...

Palace bridge
Palace bridge

Palace Bridge is one of the most recognizable symbols of the city. It connects the central part of the city and the Vasilevsky Island. The length of the bridge, 250 meters long, 27.7; consists of five proletov.Most pyatiprolёtny metal with an adjustable span between. Regular flights of two-span covered with metal riveted truss girder of a continuous system, with curved zones. When wiring the bridge balances fall into the wells of support, which are located at a depth of 6.0 meters below the...

rostral column
rostral column

Impersonation power and greatness of the state of the Navy, as well as a reference to the ancient Roman custom of decorating the columns rostra defeated enemy ships. Rostral columns were erected in 1810 and in the XIX century functioned as beacons port of the northern capital. Inside each tower is a spiral staircase leading to the upper terrace with a huge bowl-lamp and a metal tripod that holds it. In a bowl filled hemp oil, which gives a huge pillar of fire, showing the way the ships in the...