Aquarium of Saint-Petersburg is one of the largest in Russia, 5,000 square meters and containing 1.5 million liters of water. Designed by Finnish architect and located in the mall ” Neptune ”, it contains more than 200 different species of fish, that live in aquariums divided into thematic zones: the zone of the north-west Russia, rainforest, coral reef, marine mammals and many others. Also on a daily basis to make a show with feeding animals. Also, when an institution operates a...
Marble Palace, a huge building in the classical style, occupying an entire city block, built for Catherine II’s favorite Count Orlov. This is the first building in St. Petersburg, the facade of which was lined with natural stone, which was used in interior decoration of halls, especially the beautiful Marble Hall, renovated in 2010 and decorated with different types of lapis lazuli. Dvroets was built in the late 18th century and was transferred by Catherine from favorite to favorite....
The Menshikov Palace, the first stone building of St. Petersburg built for its first governor. Addition to the building itself, the territory also has a bath, medovarnya, bakery and smithy, so usadba stretched along the Vasilyevsky ostrova.Posle links Menshikov for embezzlement of public funds, it land given to the use of Cadet corps in Soviet times there was a military-political school, and after restoration it became a branch of the...
One of the largest maritime museums in the world, located in St. Petersburg. History Museum conducted since 1709, when the decree of Peter I founded the model of camera, where they were assembled ship drawings and models. Adopted legislative measures to replenish the collection serial. Development of shipbuilding has led to the fact that shipbuilding steel model eventually replaced theoretical drawings. The collection lost its practical significance and in 1805 was transformed into a...
Petersburg residence of Prince Grigory Potemkin-Tauride. Tauride Palace was erected by order of Catherine II for her favorite, Prince GA Potemkin. On the construction and decoration of the palace is allocated about 400 000 gold. The palace takes its name from the title of Prince of Tauride, which was granted the temporary worker in 1787, after joining the Crimea to the Russian Empire (Tauris). One of his jewelry is antique sculpture Venus Tauride, arrived in Russia under Peter I. After the...
Alexander Column, along with the Winter Palace, is one of the most recognizable and highest symbols of St. Petersburg. It was installed in 1834 to commemorate the victory over Napoleon, Alexander I. Granite for the column produced in a quarry near the town of Vyborg, like stones beneath its base, and both were monolithic, stone weighed about 400 tons each, and the column of about 1,100 tons. As a result, soil survey, found a suitable location near the center of the square, and at a depth of...
