Milestones

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27.06.2020 12:41

In the 18th century, in the 1770s and 1780s, by order of Empress Catherine II, wooden milestones were installed, first from the city border to Pulkovo, and then to Tsarskoe Selo (now the city Pushkin). In the 1780s, all wooden pillars were replaced with stone ones according to the drawings Antonio Rinaldi, as they were then called "stone pyramids".

A milestone with a gnomon at the intersection of Moskovsky Prospekt and the Fontanka River. The photo was taken at 13:45, i.e. the gnomon shows quite accurately - XIII.

One of the few surviving "marble verst pyramids", as they were called in the 18th century. Inscription: 22 versts from Tsarskoe Selo, 673 versts from Moscow. This is the second milestone from St. Petersburg to Pushkin, a milestone, in the 18th century the city border passed here, along Fontanka.

Milestone
One of the milestones along Moskovsky Prospekt.

Milestone "Zero Mile" at the Main Post Office. St. Petersburg, Pochtamtskaya st., 9. But this is a very funny option - cardboard! Although from a distance it looks like marble.

Roadside milepost with a solar gnomon. Pushkin, inscription: 22 versts from St. Petersburg.

Memorial sign "Verst pole: Kaliningrad - St. Petersburg", Kaliningrad square (Lodeynopolsky), St. Petersburg, intersection of Bolshaya Zeleninopolskaya and Lodeynopolskaya streets. If in the 18th century milestones were installed to navigate how much the crew traveled and how much more to go, then this one is modern and just like a monument.

Bonus from Crimea: