The monument of federal importance of architecture – a complex of houses Prince KA Gorchakov. In the XIX century the site was replaced by several owners. For one of them, a military engineer NA Archangel built a house number 17, using the French Renaissance motifs in 1893-1895 In 1898, the land acquired Prince KA Gorchakov (son Gorchakov). For him, the architect RA Gavemana was built three-storey house number 19, in eclectic style with the use of the old French architecture motifs, while...
It is an architectural monument of federal significance. Grand-Ducal Palace Is located at: Palace Embankment, 18, and millions, 19. Architect – AI Stackenschneider. The palace was built in the years 1857-1862 specially for the son of Emperor Nicholas I – Grand Duke Mikhail Nikolayevich. The construction of the palace due to the marriage of Prince on the Baden princess Cecilia August. Since the city already had one Mikhailovsky Palace, home to Michael, it was decided to name the...
The monument of classical architecture, Catholic chapel (church) of the Order of the Knights of Malta. Added in 1798-1800 (architect G. Quarenghi.) To the main building Vorontsov Palace from the garden on the orders of the Grand Master of the Order – the Emperor Paul I. Chapel solved in a columned hall with a semicircular apse and two small chapels, characterized by monumental and strict simplicity of the facade, perfect proportions, beauty used in the design of the facade and interior...
Home Expeditions government revenue (the house “with four colonnades”), built in 1750 – 1760, presumably by architect AF Kokorinov – a monument of architecture in the style of classicism. The ground floor of the building is designed as an arcade, the building is decorated with four-columned portico of the Ionic order. The facades are decorated with decorative panels on mythological subjects. during the second half of the 19th century produced inside and outside the...
It is the only building in our city entirely devoted to this art form. It occupies a historic mansion of Baron von Derviz home with a rich history. The building was originally planned as an apartment house, but the new owner decided to alter in the then fashionable style of ” Empire ”. After immigration Baron in Paris and the sale of all its assets to the mansion was attached two more floors, but in 1910 it was reconstructed and built there the theater ” House of...
It is the largest private museum in Russia, which is world famous Faberge eggs. It exists only through the generosity of Russian businessman Viktor Vekselberg, who in 2004 acquired a collection of Russian jeweler of kings, eggs made the whole team of artists on the occasion of the most important events in the life of the royal family -naprimer egg ” Coronation ‘was presented to Nicholas II to Alexandra Fyodorovna after conclusion braka.Pomimo eggs, visitors can see the...