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Exercise House

Built by Vincenzo Brenna for military exercises in cold weather on the site of the former house of inventor Andrei Nartov (1797–98). Partially reconstructed by Alexander Brullov when building the Gua...

Little Hermitage

Includes two pavilions joined by a hanging arch. The northern pavilion was designed by Jean-Baptiste-Michel Vallin de la Mothe and built by Georg Friedrich von Veldten (1764–75). Used for the Hermita...

Old Hermitage

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 ...

Particular Shipyard

Built by Georg Johann Mattarnovi, Nicolaus Friedrich Harbel and Domenico Trezzini on the left bank of the River Fontanka, opposite the Summer Garden (1715–22). Had bypass and internal canals. Intende...

Galerny (Galley) Shipyard

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...

Admiralty Shipyard

First shipbuilding yard in St Petersburg. Founded on the left bank of the River Bolshaya Neva at the same time as the Admiralty (5 November 1704). Construction was headed by Jacob Daniel Bruce, a Rus...

Stroganov Dacha

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...

Bezborodko Dacha (Kushelyov Dacha) on the River Okhta

Central three-storey building with round turrets in the corners possibly designed by Vasily Bazhenov (1773–77). Joined with arched galleries to two symmetrical side wings by Giacomo Quarenghi (1783–8...

Lithuanian Castle

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...

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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