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Hermitage Pavilion

The Hermitage park ensemble at Tsarskoe Selo was planned by Mikhail Zemtsov. Construction was headed by Savva Chevakinsky (1744–49). The pavilion was reconstructed by Bartolomeo Francesco Rastrelli (...

Admiralty Pavilion

Built by Vasily Neyelov on the bank of the Large Pond in Tsarskoe Selo (1773). Decorated inside (1774–75). Included three pavilions. The central pavilion was known as the Sloop Barn and used to store ...

Volière Pavilion

Light wooden building in the Lower Park of Peterhof designed by Nicola Michetti (1721–22). Faced with tuff and scallops. Consists of an octahedral hall, crowned with a cupola and lantern, and two rect...

Gostiny Dvor on Vasilyevsky Island Embankment

Built by Domenico Trezzini as part of the transfer of the commercial port from Trinity Square to Vasilyevsky Island (1721–37). Housed trading outlets, stock exchange and customs. Fell into disuse whe...

Gostiny Dvor on Nevsky Prospekt

Built on the site of wooden single-storey trading rows with open galleries (1740s). First project for a shopping arcade on Nevsky Prospekt was designed but not built by Antonio Rinaldi (late 1750s). ...

Silver Arcades

Three-storey building designed by Giacomo Quarenghi on Nevsky Prospekt (1784–87). Named after the stalls of silversmiths located there until a fire (1783). Tower joining the Silver Arcades and the St...

St Nicholas Market

St Nicholas’s Market was built by an unknown architect near the St Nicholas Naval Cathedral, on a rectangular plot of land bordered by Sadovaya Street, Nikolskaya Street, Kryukov Canal and the Cather...

Lithuanian Market

Situated near the Lithuanian Castle on the bank of the Kryukov Canal. Built by Giacomo Quarenghi in the style of the shopping arcades of the time (1787–89). Damaged by a fire (1920s). Replaced by the...

Ekaterinhof

In 1711, Peter the Great presented an estate at the spot where the River Neva flowed into the Gulf of Finland to his wife Catherine. Unlike such official residences as Peterhof and Oranienbaum, Ekate...

Summer Garden

Many leading masters of architecture and garden art – Mikhail Zemtsov, Nicola Michetti and Jean-Baptiste-Alexandre Le Blond – contributed to the Summer Garden. For thirteen years, all work on the ens...

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