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Field of Mars

The Field of Mars is a wide meadow in the centre of St Petersburg, lying between the Summer Garden, Marble Palace and the Pauline Guards Barracks. In the eighteenth century, it was used to hold vario...

Passage

The Passage was designed in the elegant style for Count Essen-Steinbock Fairmore by Rudolf Zhelyazevich (1846) and built between Nevsky Prospekt and Italian Street (1847–48). This two-hundred-yard-lo...

Nikolaevsky Palace

The Nikolaevsky Palace (1853–61) was built by Heinrich Stackenschneider between Horse Guards Boulevard and Galley Street on Annunciation Square (now Ploschad Truda) for the third son of Tsar Nicholas...

Mariinsky Theatre

Empress Elizabeth Petrovna issued a decree establishing the first Russian ballet company (1742). Foundation of an open Russian Theatre which is commanded to stage plays and operas (1756). Creation of...

Yussupov Palace

The Yussupov Palace stands on the bend of the River Moika. The building was constructed by Jean-Baptiste-Michel Vallin de la Mothe (1770). Countess Alexandra Branitskaya sold the palace to Prince Nik...

Yelagin Island

Yelagin Island was originally known as Mouse Island when St Petersburg was founded (1703). The Russian vice-chancellor Baron Pyotr Shafirov had a summer cottage on the island during the reign of Pete...

House of Arts

The writers Kornei Chukovsky and Maxim Gorky were instrumental in opening the House of Arts on 19 November 1919 in the former Yeliseyev House on the corner of the River Moika and Nevsky Prospekt (now...

Tsar Alexander III Monument

Prince Paolo Troubetzkoy ’s equestrian statue of Tsar Alexander III was opened on Holy Sign (Znamenskaya) Square in front of the Nicholas Railway Station on 23 May 1909. Immortalising the founder of ...

Bronze Horseman

In 1766, Étienne-Maurice Falconet, a French sculptor and professor of the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture in Paris, was invited to Russia by Catherine the Great to work on a statue of Pet...

Cathedral of the Dormition of the Holy Virgin

The Cathedral of the Dormition of the Holy Virgin (also known as the Church of the Saviour on Hay) was built in the Haymarket (1753–65). The church had two main side-chapels – Chapel of the Three Pre...

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