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  • Foundling Hospital

    The Imperial St Petersburg Foundling Hospital for the Care of Illegitimate Children, Orphans and Children of the Poor was founded by Ivan Betskoi (1770). Originally located in the house of a former p...

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  • Twelve Colleges

    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...

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  • Stock Exchange

    Founded by Peter the Great as a place where Russian and foreign merchants could meet and sign wholesale agreements to bring goods to the capital from abroad and elsewhere in Russia (1703). First and ...

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  • Senate and Synod

    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...

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  • Public Library

    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...

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  • Peter and Paul Fortress

    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...

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  • Kunstkammer

    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 ...

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  • General Headquarters

    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...

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  • St Petersburg City Duma

    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) ...

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  • Admiralty

    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...

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