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Kunstkammer

Oldest museum in Russia. Founded on the basis of the collections of Peter the Great, acquired during his travels in Western Europe or as personal commissions (1714). Originally located in the Summer ...

General Headquarters

Built by Carlo Rossi during reconstruction of Palace Square (1819–29). The eastern wing between the Choral Bridge and Bolshaya Morskaya Street housed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of F...

St Petersburg City Duma

Founded on the basis of Catherine the Great ’s Charter to the Towns, granting limited municipal self-administration (1785). Located in a building by an unknown architect on Nevsky Prospekt (1784–87) ...

Admiralty

The Admiralty was the first Russian shipyard on the Baltic Sea. Originally designed by Peter the Great himself, the foundations were laid on 5 November 1704. The original project consisted of a ?-sha...

Academy of Sciences

Originally founded on Petersburg Island (1725). Transferred to the palace built for Tsarina Praskovia Fyodorovna, next to the Kunstkammer, on Vasilyevsky Island (1728). Giacomo Quarenghi designed a n...

Academy of Arts

Founded by resolution of the Senate (6 November 1757). Based on a project of Count Ivan Shuvalov, the first director, for an “Academy of the Three Noblest Arts” – a closed educational establishment wi...

Alexander Column

The Alexander Column was built on Palace Square in memory of the Russian victory over Napoleon in the Patriotic War (1812). Designed by Auguste de Montferrand (1830–34), the column consists of a sing...

Tsar Nicholas I Monument

The monument to Tsar Nicholas I (1856–59) was opened on Mariinskaya (St Isaac’s) Square on the morning of 25 June 1859. The entire ensemble was designed by Auguste de Montferrand, while Baron Peter C...

Alexander Suvorov Monument

Mikhail Kozlovsky’s monument to Count Alexander Suvorov (1730–1800) was officially opened on 5 May 1801 at the southern end of Tsaritsa Meadow ( Field of Mars ), where it was positioned by Andrei Vor...

Mon Bijou Pavilion (Menagerie)

A menagerie was founded in Tsarskoe Selo (1715). The neglected territory (1730s) was gradually transformed into a new regular garden (1740s). Savva Chevakinsky planned a hunting pavilion at the centre...

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