Sorry, this entry is only available in RU.В эпоху императрицы Анны Иоанновны двор жил не только интригами, но и развлечениями, которые порой становились настоящими спектаклями. Одним из самых необычных событий того времени стала шутовская свадьба князя Михаила Голицына и придворной...
Senate Square is known for that here there was a revolt of the Decembrists. It was created in 1704 as part of the space around the Admiralty. Began to be called so after he moved here from the Senate building Twelve Colleges. Gradual, and the area became built up to take the form familiar to us. In 1825, there were about three thousand of the rebels who refused to swear allegiance to the new king, the revolt was brutally suppressed by the officers deprived of all privileges and sent to...
The building of the Main Staff-ring closes in the Palace Square, the Winter Palace creating neperedovaemoe sense of integrity. Construction of more than half a kilometer of the building lasted 10 years, from 1819 year. In addition to the above staff, there were also military, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Finance. With the advent of the headquarters of the Soviet regime took the People’s Commissariat of Foreign Affairs and the police station. During the blockade, it is not much...
The temple, whose construction went on from 1823 to 1825, built on the site of the house of the first Metropolitan of the Russian Empire, the temple pozhertvovavshaego this land. It is made in the classical style, and was the second Catholic church in St. Petersburg. After the October Revolution, the church was subject to repression, accompanied by confiscation of property and was closed in 1934. In the future, various businesses were located in the building of the temple and in the course of...
Construction of the park began October 7, 1945 on the site of Brick-pumice plant number 1, who served during the war crematorium. According to various calculations on it the remains of 100 to 600 thousand of Leningrad were burned during the war. Thus the area of the park has become a place of the most massive in the history of cremation two styles combine in the landscape design of the park -. Landscape and regular. Funnels from the brick factory shells and career have changed under...
Holy Trinity St. Sergius seaside desert – Orthodox Monastery, is now formally in the territory of the village of Strelna, in the city Planted in 1734. until 1918 he wore desert-grade status of the monastery, and from 1819 until 1834 was run by vicars of St. Petersburg – the bishops of Reval. Adjacent to Sergiev desert village with the same name of the railway station in 1918, named Volodarsky. In 2010, the railway station returned to its original name. In 1734 Empress Anna...