Home Trade Association “Brothers Eliseev.” – Building on the corner of Nevsky Prospect (the house 56) and Malaya Sadovaya street (Building 8) in St. Petersburg, a monument to the early modern architecture house was built in 1902-1903 by the architect Gabriel Baranovsky Vasilvichem for colonial goods store trade associations’ Eliseev Brothers’ ‘. The building stands out against the background of classical architecture Nevsky Prospekt its stained glass...
Singer House, also known as the Book House, a six-storey building with a loft in a modern style, with an area of about 7000 m? Built in 1902-1904 by the architect Pavel Suzor for “joint stock company in the Russian Singer”. The project was innovative and technical design, and style, and for other purposes. Initially, the company management ” Singer ”, which produces sewing machines, wanted to build a skyscraper, like the one that is being built now in New York: a...
It was originally the palace of Peter and nazyvavlsya Red chorus. Facility was built in 1703 by unknown builders, carpenters, material began to pine forest, decorated according to the type of Swedish wooden houses and painted under a brick. Peter House is not only the first residential building of St. Petersburg, but the only surviving structure from the days of a tree .. first protective gallery was built by the order of Peter I in 1723 on the project of Domenico Trezzini. Later, in 1844, she...
The idea of the theater belongs to Maxim Gorky, as well as the Commissioner of theaters and circuses and actress Maria Andreeva. In August 1918, MF Andreeva signed a decree on the establishment of Petrograd “theater of tragedy, romantic drama and high comedy,” today . world-famous by the acronym BDT One of the founders of the theater was also an artist, who later became a director at the BDT -. Alexander Benois basis of the troupe made actors of Theatre and drama Theatre...
Museum “The Universe of Water” became one of the youngest and most modern in the northern capital. It is located within the walls of the main water supply station, erected in 1861. By city trёhsotletiyu old tower has been restored and placed in it a modern museum and exhibition complex. Since the apartment on the museum floors of the tower, it is equipped with lifts for the elderly and disabled. The entrance to “The Universe of Water” water carrier ukrashёn figure...
Arch of the Main Staff was opened October 24, 1828. K. Rossi, projecting the central area of the northern capital, decided to connect the two wings of the Main Staff of the triumphal arch, which was the final monument was dedicated to the Patriotic War of 1812 year. This architecture has been used previously in the construction of an ensemble of triumphal arch of the Admiralty. Architect offered job the sculptors (SS Pimenov, VI Demuth-Malinovsky), who carried out the project. Force...