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Rybnaya Sloboda

Peter the Great transferred the fishermen from the various crown lands to this district near St Petersburg, which became known as Rybnaya Sloboda (1716). The local factory produced the bricks used to...

Theatre of Musical Comedy

The Lazarev House (now the Theatre of Musical Comedy) on Italian Street was designed by Yegor Sokolov. Alexander Khrenov reconstructed the building for Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich (1892). The hous...

Pompeii Gallery in the Winter Palace

Vasily Stasov designed the Pompeii Gallery in the Winter Palace in place of small rooms damaged by the fire (1837). Motifs from houses in Pompeii were employed in the interior decor. The murals were ...

Minor Chapel of the Winter Palace

The Chapel of the Presentation in the Temple was located in Bartolomeo Francesco Rastrelli ’s Winter Palace (1754–62). Consecrated in January 1768, the interior was badly damaged in the fire (1837). ...

Obvodny Canal

The Obvodny Canal marked the southern boundary of St Petersburg in the early twentieth century. Beyond the canal lay the run-down outskirts, factories, mills and warehouses. The Izmailovsky Army Ware...

Pauline Institute for Women

The Pauline Institute for Women was designed by Rudolf Zhelyazevich (1845–50) for the Institute of Noble Girls, an orphanage founded by Emperor Paul I for the children of officers and soldiers killed...

Bolshoi (Stone) Theatre

The Bolshoi (Stone) Theatre was the largest theatre in St Petersburg in the eighteenth century and was designed for all classes of citizens. Designed by Antonio Rinaldi on Theatre Square (1775–83), i...

Eleventh Bread Mill

The Eleventh Bread Mill was designed by Georgy Marsakov and built on Baroque Street on the Petrograd Side (1933).

Catherine the Great Monument

Mikhail Mikeshin designed the monument to Catherine the Great in front of the Alexandrinsky Theatre (1863–73). Sculptures of the empress’s associates are grouped around the pedestal. The figures of P...

Ice House

The Ice House was built in January 1740 to celebrate victory in the Russo-Turkish War (1735–39) and the tenth anniversary of Empress Anna Ioannovna ’s accession to the throne. The house was built on ...

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