Old Saint-Petersburg Stock Exchange and Rostral Columns

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Basic waterway St.-Petersburg. On its coast Peter I has put one of the most beautiful cities of the world. Neva — the river unique: in spite of the fact that it short enough, by quantity of moved water enters into ten the largest rivers of a planet. It is navigable on all ... →

Two rostral columns symmetrically standing on Spit of Vasilievsky Island — allegory to the similar columns put in Ancient Rome in honour of victories in sea battles. Columns symbolise the won battles by Russian fleet on Baltic in Northern war. In the architectural plan, their symmetric arrangement ... →

Spit of Vasilievsky Island  Amazing on beauty and a harmony ensemble St.-Petersburg. From water area Neva the view on a prepotent construction — the Stock exchange building (nowadays — the Navy fleet museum) opens. On each side flanking buildings Southern and Northern ... →

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 ... →

Historical a building of the former Stock exchange — the central construction of ensemble Arrows of Vasilevsky island, logically finished an architectural composition. Volumes де Tomon has tried wonderfully well, the ... →