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Admiralty Shipyard

First shipbuilding yard in St Petersburg. Founded on the left bank of the River Bolshaya Neva at the same time as the Admiralty (5 November 1704). Construction was headed by Jacob Daniel Bruce, a Rus...

Stroganov Dacha

A wooden building on the Black River at Novaya Derevnya was designed by Andrei Voronikhin (1795) and burnt down (mid-19th century). Landing wharf with granite sphinxes later transferred to the Stroga...

Bezborodko Dacha (Kushelyov Dacha) on the River Okhta

Central three-storey building with round turrets in the corners possibly designed by Vasily Bazhenov (1773–77). Joined with arched galleries to two symmetrical side wings by Giacomo Quarenghi (1783–8...

Lithuanian Castle

Pentagonal building with seven round turrets. Built by Ivan Starov at the intersection of the River Moika and the Kryukov Canal (1783–87). Quarters of the Cavalry Guards Regiment (from 1797), Lithuan...

Foundling Hospital

The Imperial St Petersburg Foundling Hospital for the Care of Illegitimate Children, Orphans and Children of the Poor was founded by Ivan Betskoi (1770). Originally located in the house of a former p...

Twelve Colleges

The Twelve Colleges was a special structure intended to accommodate the twelve new government institutions founded by Peter the Great – ten ministries or “colleges” and the Senate and Synod. The long...

Stock Exchange

Founded by Peter the Great as a place where Russian and foreign merchants could meet and sign wholesale agreements to bring goods to the capital from abroad and elsewhere in Russia (1703). First and ...

Senate and Synod

Highest government establishments in Russia, founded by Peter the Great (1711 and 1721). The Senate was originally housed on Trinity Square and later moved to the Twelve Colleges building on Vasilyev...

Public Library

Founded by Catherine the Great as the Imperial Public Library and National Book Depository (1795). A complex of buildings was built (late 18th and 19th century). Main wing on Nevsky Prospekt and Sado...

Peter and Paul Fortress

Historical heart of St Petersburg. Earthen fort was laid on the basis of a plan compiled by Saxon military engineer Wilhelm Adam Kirstenstein and French engineer Joseph Gaspar Lambert de Guérin, unde...

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