The monument to Catherine II – Ostrovskogo monument on the square in St. Petersburg, ustanovlenny in honor of Empress Catherine II in 1873 Bronzovaya figure of Catherine & Iota; & Iota; holding ckipetr and lavrovy venok, c shoulders falls ckladkami gornostaevaya mantle, at the feet of vozlegaet korona Rossiyskoy Empire. Empress izobrazhena with osankoy vysochayshey Specialties, odnako without strogosti c and a slight smile on his face. The breast is visible orden St. Andrew...
The Hermitage is one of the world’s largest art and cultural-historical museum, whose collection consists of about three million works of art and monuments of world culture. The history of the museum begins with a collection of works of art that began to acquire privately Catherine II. In 1852, much of the sprawling collection was formed and opened to the public in 1880 Imperial Ermitazh.K museum attendance has reached 50 000 people a year. After the fall of the imperial power Hermitage...
St. Isaac’s Cathedral – a unique monument of Russian architecture and one of the most beautiful cathedrals in Europe Its history dates back to 1710 when the Admiralty in the shed, a temporary wooden church was constructed.. The cathedral was consecrated in the name of St. Isaac of Dalmatia, the revered St. Peter I, as emperor was born in his Memorial Day – May 30 to the Julian calendar Built in 1818-1858 years by the architect Auguste de Montferrand;. oversaw the...
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...