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Mansion of Prince Vasily Dolgorukov

Built for the diplomat and statesman Prince Vasily Dolgorukov (1720s). Residence of the envoy to the Russian court (1733). Dismantled during construction of the Imperial Academy of Arts.

Mansion of Prince Alexei Lobanov-Rostovsky

Prince Alexei Lobanov-Rostovsky was colonel of the Hussars Life Guards Regiment and a famous bibliophile and bibliographer. House built by Auguste de Montferrand (1817–20) on Admiralty Square – later...

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...

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).

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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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