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Laid from Palace Bridge to the Senate on the former territory of the Admiralty Shipyard. Engineer Andrei Gotman included the Palace and Peter Landing Wharves opposite the eastern and western Admiralt...
Built by Heinrich Stackenschneider on the northern pier of the Annunciation Bridge (1853). Assigned to St Andrew’s Cathedral on Vasilyevsky Island. Contained a mosaic image of St Nicholas created by ...
Empress Anna Ioannovna signed a decree awarding a plot of land for the construction of a church to the Roman Catholic community in St Petersburg (14 September 1738). Pietro Antonio Trezzini designed ...
The German Evangelical Lutheran congregation is one of the oldest in St Petersburg. Awarded a plot of land on Nevsky Prospekt by Peter II (December 1727). A small stone church and two houses were bui...
Plot of land on the corner of the River Moika and Nevsky Prospekt with the mansion of Jean-Baptiste-Alexandre Le Blond was awarded to the Dutch Reformed Church (1730). A church with a house for the p...
The Church of the Saviour Not Made By Human Hands was the court stables church. Originally a wooden church built by Nicolaus Friedrich Harbel (1720–23), it was transferred to the new stone building o...
A wooden Chapel of St Panteleimonos the Healer and Great Martyr was built at the Particular Shipyard (1718) to celebrate the Russian naval victories over Sweden at the Battle of Hangö (1714) and Batt...
Built by Pietro Antonio Trezzini on a “trading square” (1761–69) on the site of the wooden church of the same name (1747). Consisted of two chapels – an upper Chapel of Our Lady of Vladimir and a low...
Built by Fyodor Demertsov on Holy Sign (Znamenskaya) Square (1794–1804). Empress Elizabeth Petrovna issued a decree on the construction of a parish church “opposite the Jäger Courtyard, at the Ligov ...
The Church of the Annunciation was designed by Konstantin Thon in the Russo-Byzantine style on Annunciation Square in St Petersburg (1843–49). Much of the money for construction was donated by Tsar N...