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St Nicholas Market

St Nicholas’s Market was built by an unknown architect near the St Nicholas Naval Cathedral, on a rectangular plot of land bordered by Sadovaya Street, Nikolskaya Street, Kryukov Canal and the Cather...

Lithuanian Market

Situated near the Lithuanian Castle on the bank of the Kryukov Canal. Built by Giacomo Quarenghi in the style of the shopping arcades of the time (1787–89). Damaged by a fire (1920s). Replaced by the...

Ekaterinhof

In 1711, Peter the Great presented an estate at the spot where the River Neva flowed into the Gulf of Finland to his wife Catherine. Unlike such official residences as Peterhof and Oranienbaum, Ekate...

Summer Garden

Many leading masters of architecture and garden art – Mikhail Zemtsov, Nicola Michetti and Jean-Baptiste-Alexandre Le Blond – contributed to the Summer Garden. For thirteen years, all work on the ens...

Spit of Vasilyevsky Island

Promontory in the east of Vasilyevsky Island between the Bolshaya and Malaya Neva. One of the most beautiful architectural ensembles in St Petersburg. Domenico Trezzini’s original plan for the city e...

New Holland

New Holland was a complex of warehouses on the island of the same name formed when the Admiralty Canal and Kryukov Canal were laid and joined to the River Moika (1720). Ivan Korobov built wooden ware...

Nevsky Prospekt

Known as the Large Perspective Road (until 1738) and the Neva Prospective Road (1738–80s). The city’s main thoroughfare between Admiralty Prospekt and St Alexander Nevsky Square. Two parallel roads l...

Kronslot

The Kronslot Fortress was the first defensive structure on Kotlin Island in the Gulf of Finland. Peter the Great designed the fort and chose the location himself on a sandbank in the south of Kotlin,...

Smolny Convent

The Smolny Convent is a complex of buildings from different periods. The oldest belong to the Novodevichy Convent of the Resurrection, located on the site of the Pitch Yard (Russian: Smolyanoi dvor )...

St Alexander Nevsky Monastery

In 1710, Normal 0 false false false RU X-NONE X-NONE Peter the Great personally chose the site for the first monastery in St Petersburg, where the Black River (now the River Monastyrka) falls into th...

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