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  • Mansion of Prince Alexei Dolgorukov

    Built for the head of the city council Prince Alexei Dolgorukov (1720s). Housed the Naval Academy (1733). Awarded to the Imperial Academy of Arts (1759) and dismantled during construction of a new Aca...

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  • Residence of the Priest of the Kazan Cathedral

    Built at 25 Nevsky Prospekt by Vasily Stasov (1813–17) on the site of a residential block (second half of 18th century). Partially rebuilt (1842).

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  • Mansion of Nikolai Chicherin

    Built possibly by Savva Chevakinsky (1768–71) on the site of the temporary wooden Winter Palace of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna designed by Bartolomeo Francesco Rastrelli (1755). The plot of land was p...

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  • Mansion of Jean-Baptiste-Alexandre Le Blond

    Built by Jean-Baptiste-Alexandre Le Blond (late 1710s) as his own personal residence (1717). A residential block was built in its place (1798), partially used by Paul Jacquot when designing the Dutch ...

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  • Mansion of Ivan Betskoi

    Built by Vasily Stasov (?) for Ivan Betskoi – diplomat, public activist, statesmen, president of the Imperial Academy of Arts and founder of the Foundling Hospital and Smolny Institute (1784–87). Fam...

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  • Mansion of Gavriil Golovkin

    Home of the first Russian chancellor Gavriil Golovkin (1720s). Inherited by his son Count Mikhail Golovkin. After his arrest, the building housed the Hofintendant Office and then palace choir singers ...

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  • Mansion of Count Nikolai Saltykov

    Built by Giacomo Quarenghi for the merchant Philipp Grootten (1784–88). Catherine the Great bought the house and presented it to Count Nikolai Saltykov as a reward for educating her grandson Grand Duk...

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  • Hermitage Theatre

    The Hermitage Theatre at 32 Palace Embankment was built by Giacomo Quarenghi, who designed the auditorium in the form of an ancient amphitheatre (1783–87). Constructed on the site of Peter the Great ...

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  • Alexandrinsky Theatre

    The Alexandrinsky Theatre was designed by Carlo Rossi (1828–32) and opened on 31 August 1832. The building is decorated with quadriga on the attic of the main facade and muses in the niches sculpted ...

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  • Palace Square

    Main square in the city. Named after the Winter Palace on the north of the square. Originally part of Admiralty Meadow, lying between the bastions of Admiralty Fortress and Meadow (Millionnaya) Stree...

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