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Gagarin Embankment

Part of Palace Embankment between the River Fontanka and the Liteiny Bridge. Named after the Gagarin Wharf, a hemp warehouse on the right bank of the River Neva on the Petersburg Side (1860s). Rename...

English Embankment

Running along the left bank of the River Neva between the Admiralty and the New Admiralty Canal, the English Embankment was originally called Lower Embankment Street (1738), St Isaac’s or Galernaya (...

Admiralty Embankment

Laid from Palace Bridge to the Senate on the former territory of the Admiralty Shipyard. Engineer Andrei Gotman included the Palace and Peter Landing Wharves opposite the eastern and western Admiralt...

St Nicholas Chapel on the Annunciation Bridge

Built by Heinrich Stackenschneider on the northern pier of the Annunciation Bridge (1853). Assigned to St Andrew’s Cathedral on Vasilyevsky Island. Contained a mosaic image of St Nicholas created by ...

St Catherine’s Church

Empress Anna Ioannovna signed a decree awarding a plot of land for the construction of a church to the Roman Catholic community in St Petersburg (14 September 1738). Pietro Antonio Trezzini designed ...

Lutheran Church of St Peter and St Paul

The German Evangelical Lutheran congregation is one of the oldest in St Petersburg. Awarded a plot of land on Nevsky Prospekt by Peter II (December 1727). A small stone church and two houses were bui...

Dutch Church

Plot of land on the corner of the River Moika and Nevsky Prospekt with the mansion of Jean-Baptiste-Alexandre Le Blond was awarded to the Dutch Reformed Church (1730). A church with a house for the p...

Church of the Saviour Not Made By Human Hands

The Church of the Saviour Not Made By Human Hands was the court stables church. Originally a wooden church built by Nicolaus Friedrich Harbel (1720–23), it was transferred to the new stone building o...

Church of St Panteleimonos

A wooden Chapel of St Panteleimonos the Healer and Great Martyr was built at the Particular Shipyard (1718) to celebrate the Russian naval victories over Sweden at the Battle of Hangö (1714) and Batt...

Church of Our Lady of Vladimir

Built by Pietro Antonio Trezzini on a “trading square” (1761–69) on the site of the wooden church of the same name (1747). Consisted of two chapels – an upper Chapel of Our Lady of Vladimir and a low...

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