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Imperial Glass Factory

Constructed by William Elmsell on the River Fontanka (1735). The instruments and masters of the Jamburg Glass Factories were transferred to the factory. Taken over by the crown (1738). Thirty-three p...

Flea Market

The Flea Market was next door to the New Alexander Market on a plot of land now occupied by 44 Voznesensky Prospekt. It was a popular haunt of the city riff-raff, ragmen and second-hand clothes-deale...

Halt of Comedians

The Halt of Comedians cabaret bar occupied the basement of 7 Field of Mars (spring 1916–spring 1917). Although the brainchild of Boris Pronin, an artist of the Vera Komissarzhevskaya Theatre, the hea...

Stone Island Theatre

Smaragd Shustov built the Stone Island Theatre from wood in the Neoclassical style on the bank of the Middle Nevka (1827). Dismantled in 1844, the theatre was later recreated by Alberto Cavos. The Is...

Vladimir Lenin Monument

The statue of Vladimir Lenin outside the Finland Railway Station (sculptors Vladimir Schuko and Sergei Yevseyev, architect Vladimir Gelfreich) was one of the first monuments to the Russian revolution...

Bolshoi Theatre of Drama

The Bolshoi Theatre of Drama opened in Petrograd with a performance of Friedrich Schiller’s Don Carlos, Infant von Spanien (1919). Alexander Blok was the literary director of the theatre. The princip...

Plumbing

Plumbing was installed in St Petersburg in two instalments (1863, 1870). Many pipes failed to be maintained following the turmoil of the revolution. Like food, water was also rationed in Petrograd (1...

Streetlights

A system of street lighting was introduced in St Petersburg by Jean-Baptiste-Alexandre Le Blond (1718). The first streetlights were oil lamps in the area around the Winter Palace. Gas streetlights we...

Imperial Porcelain Factory

Founded by Empress Elizabeth Petrovna in St Petersburg (1744). First porcelain manufactory in Russia. Russian porcelain was invented by the mining engineer Dmitry Vinogradov, who created the country’...

Obukhov Factory

The factory was originally founded by Pavel Obukhov, Sergei Kudryavtsev and Nikolai Putilov as a steel foundry (1863). It was renamed the Obukhov Factory (1869) and acquired by the crown (1886). One ...

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