Built by Georg Friedrich von Veldten (1770–87). Giacomo Quarenghi designed the Raphael Loggia running along the Winter Canal (1787–92). The first floor was an exact copy of the gallery with Raphael’s ...

Founded on Admiralty Island downstream the River Neva (1712). Construction of vessels – first rowing boats and small sailing ships and later frigates – began on nearby Galerny (Kalinkin) Island at th...

A wooden building on the Black River at Novaya Derevnya was designed by Andrei Voronikhin (1795) and burnt down (mid-19th century). Landing wharf with granite sphinxes later transferred to the Stroga...

Pentagonal building with seven round turrets. Built by Ivan Starov at the intersection of the River Moika and the Kryukov Canal (1783–87). Quarters of the Cavalry Guards Regiment (from 1797), Lithuan...

The Twelve Colleges was a special structure intended to accommodate the twelve new government institutions founded by Peter the Great – ten ministries or “colleges” and the Senate and Synod. The long...