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Dominique’s Café

The first café in Russia to be called after its owner, Dominique Ritz-a-Port, opened at 24 Nevsky Prospekt (1841). It soon grew into an unofficial social and literary club, a haunt of minor bureaucra...

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...

Eleventh Bread Mill

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

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 ...

Passage

The Passage was designed in the elegant style for Count Essen-Steinbock Fairmore by Rudolf Zhelyazevich (1846) and built between Nevsky Prospekt and Italian Street (1847–48). This two-hundred-yard-lo...

House of Arts

The writers Kornei Chukovsky and Maxim Gorky were instrumental in opening the House of Arts on 19 November 1919 in the former Yeliseyev House on the corner of the River Moika and Nevsky Prospekt (now...

Tuchkov Wharf

Complex of hemp warehouses including three stone buildings. Built on the small island of the same name by Antonio Rinaldi (1763–72). The canal dividing Tuchkov Wharf from Petersburg Island was filled ...

Cabinet Wing of the Anichkov Palace

Giacomo Quarenghi built a new wing for His Imperial Majesty’s Cabinet on the site of the wooden colonnade in front of the Anichkov Palace (1803–06). His Imperial Majesty’s Cabinet was founded to over...

Nicholas (Moscow) Railway Station

Built by Konstantin Thon (1844–51). The two-track railway line between St Petersburg and Moscow – the largest engineering project in the world at that time – was the country’s second railroad after t...

Provincial Government House

Built by Giacomo Quarenghi (1788–90). Partially reconstructed by Andrei Mikhailov (1803). Reconstructed by Karl Anderson for housing the city’s mayor and police (1876).

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