Belltower of a cathedral of Peter and Pavel and Botnyj the house

baroque  Baroque architecture on a photo.

Botnyj the house  Small building between Peter and Pavel`s cathedral and the Mint. It is built for storage boat Peter I (nowadays is in the Naval museum). The major monument marking a boundary of transition of Russian architecture from Baroque style to classicism. Costs on figured on an outline in respect of a three-stage ... →

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, ... →

classicism  Classicism architecture and sculptures on a photo.

Present Peter and Paul cathedral is built on a place of the initial wooden. Is the central dominant Peter and Paul Fortress and the spike is visible from many points in the centre St.-Petersburg. In a stone cathedral the — wooden spike has suffered ... →

Peter and Paul Fortress  From it originates a city, and a name to Northern capital too is given originally to a fortress St.-Petersburg. Date of the basis of a fortress considers on May, 27th 1703 year, and this day the City Day is marked. It today even in official publications: ... →

Petropavlovka  After defeat of the Swedish fortress the Nienschanz built at a confluence in Neva the rivers of Okhta (opposite to that place where Smolny is nowadays located), Peter I on May, 16th 1703 has put a new fortress more close to the sea, ... →

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 ... →