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  • Mariinsky Theatre

    Empress Elizabeth Petrovna issued a decree establishing the first Russian ballet company (1742). Foundation of an open Russian Theatre which is commanded to stage plays and operas (1756). Creation of...

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  • Yussupov Palace

    The Yussupov Palace stands on the bend of the River Moika. The building was constructed by Jean-Baptiste-Michel Vallin de la Mothe (1770). Countess Alexandra Branitskaya sold the palace to Prince Nik...

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  • Yelagin Island

    Yelagin Island was originally known as Mouse Island when St Petersburg was founded (1703). The Russian vice-chancellor Baron Pyotr Shafirov had a summer cottage on the island during the reign of Pete...

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  • House of Arts

    The writers Kornei Chukovsky and Maxim Gorky were instrumental in opening the House of Arts on 19 November 1919 in the former Yeliseyev House on the corner of the River Moika and Nevsky Prospekt (now...

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  • Tsar Alexander III Monument

    Prince Paolo Troubetzkoy ’s equestrian statue of Tsar Alexander III was opened on Holy Sign (Znamenskaya) Square in front of the Nicholas Railway Station on 23 May 1909. Immortalising the founder of ...

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  • Bronze Horseman

    In 1766, Étienne-Maurice Falconet, a French sculptor and professor of the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture in Paris, was invited to Russia by Catherine the Great to work on a statue of Pet...

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  • Cathedral of the Dormition of the Holy Virgin

    The Cathedral of the Dormition of the Holy Virgin (also known as the Church of the Saviour on Hay) was built in the Haymarket (1753–65). The church had two main side-chapels – Chapel of the Three Pre...

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  • Haymarket

    The Haymarket ( Sennaya Ploschad ) occupied the plot of land on Sadovaya Street between Spassky and Tairov Lanes. One of the busiest squares in St Petersburg, it was created by cutting down a tract o...

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  • Kronwerk

    External fortifications defending the Peter and Paul Fortress from the north. Originally consisted of a bastion and two half-bastions joined by courtines and surrounded by a moat with water and earth...

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  • Nevsky (Lvov) Gates of the Peter and Paul Fortress

    Gates in the Neva Courtine of the Peter and Paul Fortress. Erected (1703), rebuilt from stone (1747–48). Facade looking onto the River Neva was designed in the Neoclassical style by Nikolai Lvov (178...

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