Museum “The Universe of Water” became one of the youngest and most modern in the northern capital. It is located within the walls of the main water supply station, erected in 1861. By city trёhsotletiyu old tower has been restored and placed in it a modern museum and exhibition complex. Since the apartment on the museum floors of the tower, it is equipped with lifts for the elderly and disabled. The entrance to “The Universe of Water” water carrier ukrashёn figure...
Arch of the Main Staff was opened October 24, 1828. K. Rossi, projecting the central area of the northern capital, decided to connect the two wings of the Main Staff of the triumphal arch, which was the final monument was dedicated to the Patriotic War of 1812 year. This architecture has been used previously in the construction of an ensemble of triumphal arch of the Admiralty. Architect offered job the sculptors (SS Pimenov, VI Demuth-Malinovsky), who carried out the project. Force...
One of the oldest buildings in the city. It was erected on the site of a wooden church built in honor of the victory at Poltava won by June 27, 1709 – the day of St. . Sampson Sampson Cathedral complex includes: the building of the cathedral, the bell tower and chapel. It differs from other famous urban constructions by mixing pre-Petrine forms and elements of architecture of early Petersburg. Researchers credited his appearance to one of the trends of the first half of the eighteenth...
Since the emergence of St. Petersburg, Peter I laid it not only forts, palaces and museums, but also the spirit and tradition of tolerance. So in 1716 based the parish of St. Catherine of Alexandria, and in 1738 Anna Ivanovna signed a decree on the construction of a Catholic temple obschiny.Eto this was not the first Catholic church of St. Petersburg, but he was destined to become the “cradle” for all Catholics Rossii.Sobor turned grandiose, topped with a large dome and at the same...
The Mariinsky Theatre is one of the most famous and the largest in Russia and in the world of opera and ballet theaters. Theater traces its history from the founded in 1783 by order of Empress Catherine the Great, the Bolshoi Theatre, which was located in the building, later rebuilt by the St. Petersburg Conservatory. July 12, 1783 issued a decree approving the theater committee “to manage the show and the music.” October 5 unveiled Big Stone theater on the carousel area, which...
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,...
