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Highest government establishments in Russia, founded by Peter the Great (1711 and 1721). The Senate was originally housed on Trinity Square and later moved to the Twelve Colleges building on Vasilyev...
Founded by Catherine the Great as the Imperial Public Library and National Book Depository (1795). A complex of buildings was built (late 18th and 19th century). Main wing on Nevsky Prospekt and Sado...
Historical heart of St Petersburg. Earthen fort was laid on the basis of a plan compiled by Saxon military engineer Wilhelm Adam Kirstenstein and French engineer Joseph Gaspar Lambert de Guérin, unde...
Oldest museum in Russia. Founded on the basis of the collections of Peter the Great, acquired during his travels in Western Europe or as personal commissions (1714). Originally located in the Summer ...
Built by Carlo Rossi during reconstruction of Palace Square (1819–29). The eastern wing between the Choral Bridge and Bolshaya Morskaya Street housed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of F...
Founded on the basis of Catherine the Great ’s Charter to the Towns, granting limited municipal self-administration (1785). Located in a building by an unknown architect on Nevsky Prospekt (1784–87) ...
The Admiralty was the first Russian shipyard on the Baltic Sea. Originally designed by Peter the Great himself, the foundations were laid on 5 November 1704. The original project consisted of a ?-sha...
Originally founded on Petersburg Island (1725). Transferred to the palace built for Tsarina Praskovia Fyodorovna, next to the Kunstkammer, on Vasilyevsky Island (1728). Giacomo Quarenghi designed a n...
Founded by resolution of the Senate (6 November 1757). Based on a project of Count Ivan Shuvalov, the first director, for an “Academy of the Three Noblest Arts” – a closed educational establishment wi...
The Alexander Column was built on Palace Square in memory of the Russian victory over Napoleon in the Patriotic War (1812). Designed by Auguste de Montferrand (1830–34), the column consists of a sing...