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Pauline Institute for Women

The Pauline Institute for Women was designed by Rudolf Zhelyazevich (1845–50) for the Institute of Noble Girls, an orphanage founded by Emperor Paul I for the children of officers and soldiers killed...

Bolshoi (Stone) Theatre

The Bolshoi (Stone) Theatre was the largest theatre in St Petersburg in the eighteenth century and was designed for all classes of citizens. Designed by Antonio Rinaldi on Theatre Square (1775–83), i...

Eleventh Bread Mill

The Eleventh Bread Mill was designed by Georgy Marsakov and built on Baroque Street on the Petrograd Side (1933).

Pauline Regiment

The Pauline Grenadier Regiment (1796) was later renamed the Pauline Life Guards with the rights of junior (1812) and senior guards (1831), in recognition of its feats of arms. The regimental barracks...

Preobrazhensky Regiment

The Preobrazhensky Regiment was formed from the forces awarded as playmates to Peter the Great at the age of five in the village of Preobrazhenskoe near Moscow (1687). Later renamed the Preobrazhensk...

Catherine the Great Monument

Mikhail Mikeshin designed the monument to Catherine the Great in front of the Alexandrinsky Theatre (1863–73). Sculptures of the empress’s associates are grouped around the pedestal. The figures of P...

Ice House

The Ice House was built in January 1740 to celebrate victory in the Russo-Turkish War (1735–39) and the tenth anniversary of Empress Anna Ioannovna ’s accession to the throne. The house was built on ...

Field of Mars

The Field of Mars is a wide meadow in the centre of St Petersburg, lying between the Summer Garden, Marble Palace and the Pauline Guards Barracks. In the eighteenth century, it was used to hold vario...

Passage

The Passage was designed in the elegant style for Count Essen-Steinbock Fairmore by Rudolf Zhelyazevich (1846) and built between Nevsky Prospekt and Italian Street (1847–48). This two-hundred-yard-lo...

Nikolaevsky Palace

The Nikolaevsky Palace (1853–61) was built by Heinrich Stackenschneider between Horse Guards Boulevard and Galley Street on Annunciation Square (now Ploschad Truda) for the third son of Tsar Nicholas...

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