One of the oldest buildings in the city. It was erected on the site of a wooden church built in honor of the victory at Poltava won by June 27, 1709 – the day of St. . Sampson Sampson Cathedral complex includes: the building of the cathedral, the bell tower and chapel. It differs from other famous urban constructions by mixing pre-Petrine forms and elements of architecture of early Petersburg. Researchers credited his appearance to one of the trends of the first half of the eighteenth...
Since the emergence of St. Petersburg, Peter I laid it not only forts, palaces and museums, but also the spirit and tradition of tolerance. So in 1716 based the parish of St. Catherine of Alexandria, and in 1738 Anna Ivanovna signed a decree on the construction of a Catholic temple obschiny.Eto this was not the first Catholic church of St. Petersburg, but he was destined to become the “cradle” for all Catholics Rossii.Sobor turned grandiose, topped with a large dome and at the same...
The Mariinsky Theatre is one of the most famous and the largest in Russia and in the world of opera and ballet theaters. Theater traces its history from the founded in 1783 by order of Empress Catherine the Great, the Bolshoi Theatre, which was located in the building, later rebuilt by the St. Petersburg Conservatory. July 12, 1783 issued a decree approving the theater committee “to manage the show and the music.” October 5 unveiled Big Stone theater on the carousel area, which...
One of the most beautiful churches of St. Petersburg. Erected in the XVIII century on the project Rastrelli. In terms of the monastery is a Greek cross with the cathedral in the center and four churches on the corners. Joining in the chorus of the monastery buildings, the facade of the cathedral at the bottom of the style of architecture is much more like a palace than a temple. Architectural solution Cathedral creates the illusion of his unusual size. As the building is visually reduced,...
Museum dedicated to the memory of Generalissimo AV Suvorov (1729-1800). Was founded in 1900 in honor of the centenary of the death of the commander and inaugurated four years later, in 1904, to the 175th anniversary of Suvorov’s birth. Suvorov was the first person in Russia, in whose honor the memorial museum was erected. The building on the corner of Kirochnaya and Taurian Street was built specifically for the project of the museum AI Gauguin’s background in the style of old...
St. Michael’s or Engineer Castle, the largest architectural monument, the final story themselves Petersburg architecture of the XVIII century. Its name Mikhailovsky Castle obliged the occupants temple of Archangel Michael, the patron saint of the Romanov dynasty, and fad Paul I, who took the title of Grand Master of the Order of Malta, called all its palaces “locks”; the second name – “Engineering” comes from there is since 1823 the Chief Engineering School....