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The first and the largest monastery of St. Petersburg. Alexander Nevsky Monastery is located between the rivers Neva, Monastyrka and by-channel, is an oasis of Russian spiritual life at the Monastery island. At the spot where the Black River, and now Monastyrka, flows into the Neva River, July 15, 1240 there was a battle squads Alexander Nevsky with the Swedish army. In honor of the memory of the victory over the Swedes in 1704 Peter I had decided to build a monastery on this place and decided...

Gosudarstvenny Russian Museum – the largest museum of Russian art in the world Raspolozhen in the central part of St. Petersburg, nedaleko from ploschadi Arts.. At the moment, Russian Museum presents soboy slozhny The complex is a museum of several buildings: Mihaylovsky dvorets (glavnoe museum building) with an exhibition of the enclosure Benoit, Mikhailovsky (Engineers’) Castle, Mramorny dvorets, Stroganovsky dvorets and Summer Palace of Peter I. The museum vhodyat also...

Palace Square, the main St. Petersburg area, included in the UNESCO World Heritage List. It was founded November 5, 1704 during the construction of the Admiralty fortress shipyard. Initially it was used for storage of ship timber construction, anchors and other pripasov.S 1712 to 1717 there was a Marine market, the unused area is overgrown with grass and turned to the Admiralty meadow. In 1721 on the orders of Peter I had laid three streets, set the direction of the whole scheme of the...

Performed in the style of the Empire, the Kazan Cathedral, is one of the largest churches of St. Petersburg. In the years 1801-1811 the cathedral was built by the architect AN Voronikhin in order to store the list of honored miraculous icon of the Mother of God. Its value is a monument to Russian military glory he acquired after 1812. Here was buried famous commander Kutuzov in 1813 and placed the keys of the capture of the city and other spoils of war. In 1932, it converted into a museum...

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);...