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Spit of Vasilyevsky Island

Promontory in the east of Vasilyevsky Island between the Bolshaya and Malaya Neva. One of the most beautiful architectural ensembles in St Petersburg. Domenico Trezzini’s original plan for the city e...

New Holland

New Holland was a complex of warehouses on the island of the same name formed when the Admiralty Canal and Kryukov Canal were laid and joined to the River Moika (1720). Ivan Korobov built wooden ware...

Nevsky Prospekt

Known as the Large Perspective Road (until 1738) and the Neva Prospective Road (1738–80s). The city’s main thoroughfare between Admiralty Prospekt and St Alexander Nevsky Square. Two parallel roads l...

Kronslot

The Kronslot Fortress was the first defensive structure on Kotlin Island in the Gulf of Finland. Peter the Great designed the fort and chose the location himself on a sandbank in the south of Kotlin,...

Smolny Convent

The Smolny Convent is a complex of buildings from different periods. The oldest belong to the Novodevichy Convent of the Resurrection, located on the site of the Pitch Yard (Russian: Smolyanoi dvor )...

St Alexander Nevsky Monastery

In 1710, Normal 0 false false false RU X-NONE X-NONE Peter the Great personally chose the site for the first monastery in St Petersburg, where the Black River (now the River Monastyrka) falls into th...

Mansion of Prince Vasily Dolgorukov

Built for the diplomat and statesman Prince Vasily Dolgorukov (1720s). Residence of the envoy to the Russian court (1733). Dismantled during construction of the Imperial Academy of Arts.

Mansion of Prince Alexei Lobanov-Rostovsky

Prince Alexei Lobanov-Rostovsky was colonel of the Hussars Life Guards Regiment and a famous bibliophile and bibliographer. House built by Auguste de Montferrand (1817–20) on Admiralty Square – later...

Mansion of Prince Alexei Dolgorukov

Built for the head of the city council Prince Alexei Dolgorukov (1720s). Housed the Naval Academy (1733). Awarded to the Imperial Academy of Arts (1759) and dismantled during construction of a new Aca...

Residence of the Priest of the Kazan Cathedral

Built at 25 Nevsky Prospekt by Vasily Stasov (1813–17) on the site of a residential block (second half of 18th century). Partially rebuilt (1842).

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