This progenitor of the tram is now on the ” eternal wharf ‘near the metro station’ ‘Vasileoostrovskaya’ ‘. She came to us from England, but one distinguishing feature-horse was added to the cars was dragged along the rails rather than overhead. Already in 1910, when the first 30 lines were launched, they transported more than a million passengers, which in those days was an astronomical figure. Therefore, it was decided to expand the fleet to 3 and a half...
The monument of federal importance of architecture – a complex of houses Prince KA Gorchakov. In the XIX century the site was replaced by several owners. For one of them, a military engineer NA Archangel built a house number 17, using the French Renaissance motifs in 1893-1895 In 1898, the land acquired Prince KA Gorchakov (son Gorchakov). For him, the architect RA Gavemana was built three-storey house number 19, in eclectic style with the use of the old French architecture motifs, while...
It is an architectural monument of federal significance. Grand-Ducal Palace Is located at: Palace Embankment, 18, and millions, 19. Architect – AI Stackenschneider. The palace was built in the years 1857-1862 specially for the son of Emperor Nicholas I – Grand Duke Mikhail Nikolayevich. The construction of the palace due to the marriage of Prince on the Baden princess Cecilia August. Since the city already had one Mikhailovsky Palace, home to Michael, it was decided to name the...
The monument of classical architecture, Catholic chapel (church) of the Order of the Knights of Malta. Added in 1798-1800 (architect G. Quarenghi.) To the main building Vorontsov Palace from the garden on the orders of the Grand Master of the Order – the Emperor Paul I. Chapel solved in a columned hall with a semicircular apse and two small chapels, characterized by monumental and strict simplicity of the facade, perfect proportions, beauty used in the design of the facade and interior...
Home Expeditions government revenue (the house “with four colonnades”), built in 1750 – 1760, presumably by architect AF Kokorinov – a monument of architecture in the style of classicism. The ground floor of the building is designed as an arcade, the building is decorated with four-columned portico of the Ionic order. The facades are decorated with decorative panels on mythological subjects. during the second half of the 19th century produced inside and outside the...
Nevsky, 20 – this is one of the oldest stone buildings Petersburg In 1715 is one-storey house for Major General Dupre was built.. This structure defined red lines Nevsky Prospect and the Moika Embankment. In 1719, by the next owner of the house peroeshel Dutch Reformed community and in the depth of the site it was built church. In the second half of the 18th century on the site erected a second building, the so-called “house Polota” originally garret, in the early 19th...