Cross on a dome

Photo churches and cathedrals, temples and chapels. The church architecture created by great architects or unknown serf masters. Photos churches St.-Petersburg, Voronezh, hardly Moscow, ... →

crosses  graphically simple element, is since ancient times used by people. It and a religious symbol, in each religion bearing sense, and an element of decor of architecture, and mathematical a sign. The cross has for ever entered into art, writing, symbolics (whether it be religion, a policy or military craft).

details  Walking in St.-Petersburg — attention to decor of bridges at the Engineering Castle. Lattices of fencings, elements of lampposts — all is penetrated by military subjects. These are spears, swords, boards, helmets etc.. As it is wide replicated detail — head of Medusa that should frighten off evil ghosts, evil spirits, ... →

Smolny cathedral  On a bend Neva costs one of the most beautiful creations of a XVIII-th century Smolny of Revival Christ`s Cathedral. Which has been constructed under instructions Elizabeths Petrovny, wished to spend last years the life in ... →

St.-Petersburg is based in 1703 to year.

coast of the Neva delta from of old were a part of the earths of Great Novgorod. Neva — one of sites of an ... →