Taurian garden- monument of landscape art in the central part of St. Petersburg. Located in the quarter, limited Kirochnaya, Potemkin, Taurian Shpalernaya and streets. Area Tauride Gardens is 21.1 gektar.Sad defeated in the years 1783-1800 the English master gardener W. Gould in the construction of the Tauride Palace. At the site of a small river Samoroyki was arranged complex hydraulic system of two ponds connected by canals. The ponds released sturgeon. Ponds filled with water from the...
Monument to Alexander Pushkin was unveiled at Pushkinskaya Street 7 August 1884 was erected a monument on the initiative of the St. Petersburg city public administration and by the decision of the City Duma on March 17, 1882 Architect -.. Nicholas Benois, sculptor – Alexander Opekushin M.-author of the famous monument to Pushkin on Tverskoy Boulevard in Moscow. By the way, to create a monument Opekushin used one of the many competitive options that he created for the Moscow Monument....
Large Gostiny Dvor, a monument of history and architecture of the XVIII century, in the past -. Central wholesale Gostiny Dvor, from the beginning of the XX century-store Located in the historic center of St. Petersburg, took block between Nevsky Prospect (house number 35), Sadovaya Street , street of Lomonosov and Perinnaya line in the building faces the metro station ” Gostiny Dvor ”. The forerunner of this was the Gostiny Dvor Gostiny Dvor in Zelnogo bridge when a fire in 1738...
The Bronze Horseman a monument to Peter I, established in 1782 on the Senate Square. Equestrian statue of Peter the model made by the sculptor Etienne Falconet in 1768-1770 years. Head Peter molded pupil of sculptor Marie Anne Collot. Find suitable stones for the monument was not immediately, then in the newspaper ” St. Petersburg Gazette ‘published an appeal to individuals who wish to be “for decision & hellip; monument to break down the mountain and bring here, in St....
The monument to Catherine II – Ostrovskogo monument on the square in St. Petersburg, ustanovlenny in honor of Empress Catherine II in 1873 Bronzovaya figure of Catherine & Iota; & Iota; holding ckipetr and lavrovy venok, c shoulders falls ckladkami gornostaevaya mantle, at the feet of vozlegaet korona Rossiyskoy Empire. Empress izobrazhena with osankoy vysochayshey Specialties, odnako without strogosti c and a slight smile on his face. The breast is visible orden St. Andrew...
The Hermitage is one of the world’s largest art and cultural-historical museum, whose collection consists of about three million works of art and monuments of world culture. The history of the museum begins with a collection of works of art that began to acquire privately Catherine II. In 1852, much of the sprawling collection was formed and opened to the public in 1880 Imperial Ermitazh.K museum attendance has reached 50 000 people a year. After the fall of the imperial power Hermitage...