Circus on the Fontanka in St. Petersburg – the first stone permanent circus in Russia, one of the oldest circuses in Russia Circus building is one of the most beautiful buildings of the circus in Europe, which have repeatedly noted artists who come to us for gastroli.Oformlenie auditorium. it was carried out with luxury. In its decoration combined crimson velvet, gold and mirrors. Lodges and places in the stalls were designed for 1500 people, and the total content of the hall, by a...
Summer Garden and park complex, a monument of landscape art of the first third of the XVIII century, founded by Peter I, and originally was a regular. Summer Garden was originally designed as a summer royal residence, and part of the island Usaditsa been allocated for its construction, while this the island served as a transport funktsiyu.V history of the formation of the Summer garden there are several important steps: the establishment of borders, and the original plan (1704-1710);...
Arctic Museum was opened to the public January 8, 1937, but the decision to create it was made much earlier. .In 1930 the Presidium of the USSR Central Executive Committee had approved the decision on the establishment of the All-Union Arctic Institute (VAI), which as a special department envisaged Arktiki.Pervonachalno museum exhibits of the museum were stored in the basement of VAI and used only for exhibitions. In 1933, the Arctic Institute to create the museum was loaned to the building of...
Anichkov Bridge – one of the most famous bridges of St. Petersburg permanent stone bridge thrown across the Fontanka Nevsky Prospect on line in 1785. Its name bridge shall lieutenant colonel-engineer Mikhail Anichkov, whose battalion during the time of Peter the Great was stationed for Fontanka Anichkov in the so-called settlement. Cast in bronze, the first two of the sculpture “horse with reaching young men” and “young man, taking the horse by the bridle,”...
Obelisk ” hero city Leningrad ” set May 8, 1985. It consists of a vertical granite monolith total height of 36 meters, decorated with bronze high relief and topped”” Gold Star of the Hero. Monument installed in the composite center of one of the largest squares of the city – the area of the Rebellion and completes the basic, the front part of the Nevsky Prospect . Along the perimeter of the square it is surrounded by buildings that are included in the...
Savior on the Blood erected on the orders of Alexander III in memory of his father, Alexander II of, who died on this spot in a terrorist explosion. The temple was built as a nationwide memorial monument. Since 1918 Savior on Spilled Blood became exclusively a cultural monument, and from 1930 to 1970. is a stock that has caused serious damage to its artistic decoration. In 1970, the Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood became a branch of the museum “St. Isaac’s Cathedral,”...