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 | The prision for political criminals |   |  |
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 |  on November 24, 2003 |
It was the ferule prision. If you read about Russian Decabrists. They were noblesses who make such as demonstration against king's regim in bondage questions. Decabrists wanted to annul the bondage in Russian. The king had another mind and his reaction was draconian: 3 of decabrists were mudered and other were sended out ti Syberia. |
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| Churches of Sankt Petersburg | | |
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| on November 24, 2003 |
There are many churches in Sankt Petersburg. The church in the photo is very special. It was built on the place where was attempt on one of Russia's kings life (sorry Ican't remember his name, probably he was Alexandr II). Now you have to buy a ticket befor entrancing the church. |
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| The prision for political criminals | | |
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| on November 24, 2003 |
This is the prision in Zayachy Island near the church of Peter and Pavel. This prision was built specially for political criminals. In the camera was only one man that's why prisoners contrived knocking method to speak to each other. |
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| Ekatherina's palace |  | |
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 |  on April 18, 2004 |
It's a nice place too.You will need a day to see it,because it's out city too.You can take a blanket & food with your & have a picnic over there.Palace is beautiful!It's my favorite!Blue one with golden decoration!But garden & pond is something special in this whole World!You can see rare trees in the queen's garden & small ducklings with their mom! |
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| Alexander Column (Alexandrinskaya Colonna) | | |
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 |  on September 15, 2005 |
The colossal Alexander Column (Alexandrinskaya Colonna) with the bronze figure of an angel at the top was erected in the center of the Square in 1834 to commemorate the triumphant victory of the Russians over Napoleon in the Patriotic War 1812. It was built by architect Monferran and was named after Emperor Alexander The First. The bronze angel on its top resembles the Emperor Alexander while the snake he is trampling by his cross looks much like Napoleon. This means the victory the good over the evil. The block of red granite was got near Viborg and was delivered by 2 ships to St.Petersburg. The 47,5 meter high column (height of the granite block is 25.5 metres, the lower diametre of the column is 3.66 metres, the upper diametre is 3.16 meters) made of the biggest in the world one-piece marble monolith rests on the porch only by means of its own enormous weight (600 tons) without any supporting clamps. The foundation of the monument consists of 1250 piles each of them is 6 metres length. The block put up by 3000 soldiers and sailors. |
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| Palace Square (Dvortsovaya Ploshchad) | | |
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| on September 15, 2005 |
The Palace Square (Dvortsovaya Ploshchad) is the most grandiose among the squares of the city. The focal point of its architectural ensemble is the Winter Palace (Zimny dvorets), an architectural masterpiece of the flamboyant Russian Baroque and the royal residence of all the Russian Emperors but Paul. It was built by Rastrelli at the close of the Empress Elizabeth reign, in 1754-1762. The Empress ordered it to show off the grandeur of her Court. Hurry as he did, Rastrelli had not completed the Palace before Elizabeth died and she never saw her dream to come true. To make it look truly imperial Rastrelli resorted to all the advantages of the Russian Baroque. He decorated the edge of the roof with huge bronze figures and reduced the emerald wall space to the minimum disguising it by decorative columns and golden tracery, plastic Amours, vases and sculptures. |
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| Peter and Paul Fortress | | |
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| on March 3, 2006 |
The Peter and Paul Fortress (Petropavlovskaya Krepost') is historical core of St.Petersburg. It is a monument of military and engineering craft. It was laid by the order and to the plot-plan of Peter the Great on May 1703 on Zayachy Island that is linked with Petrogradsky Island by Ioanovsky and Kronverksky bridges. The Fortress forms an irregular hexagon stretched from West to East with 6 bastions at the corners. The fortress was constructed "in quite a haste" under supervision of Peter the Great and his closest associates. In 1706-1740 the walls of fortress that face the Neva River were lined with granite blocks. For defense of the northern approaches to the Peter and Paul Fortress the Kronverk fortifications were constructed on the southern bank of the Petrogradsky Island. A canal was dug in the territory of the fortress to bring construction materials and supply the garrison with water. It was filled up with ground in 1882. The parade Petrovsky gate is located in the Eastern Wall of the fortress. Vasiliev gate is in the Western Wall, Kronverk and Nicholas gates are in the Northern Wall, and Neva gate (leading to the jetty) is in the Southern Wall. Ioannovsky Ravelin was constructed in 1731-1740 outside the fortress on the eastern side, while 1733-1740 Alexeyevsky Ravelin was built on the western side. The new Peter and Paul Cathedral of stone appeared in 1712-1733 in place of the old wooden church of St.Peter and St.Paul. The cathedral became the burial-vault of Russian Emperors. |
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| Kunstkamera | | |
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| on September 15, 2005 |
The Kunstkamera (1718-34 G.I.Matternovi, N.F. Gerbel, G.Ciaveri; 1754-58 S.O.Chevakinsky) is one of the most original examples of the baroque of the first third of the 18th century. That is blue-and-white building with the steeple was the city's first museum, founded in 1714 by Peter himself. This museum (Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography) is about peoples outside the former USSR, with campy dioramas and displays on the cultures of Asia, Oceania, Africa and the Americas. The old anatomy theatre is the (only) big draw, with selections from Peter's original kunstkammer. While this translates from German to 'art chamber', the bloodthirsty crowds are really here to see Peter's collection of monstrosities, notably a ghoulish collection of preserved freaks, two-headed mutant foetuses and body parts. |
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| Basil Island (Vasilievsky Island) | | |
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| on September 15, 2005 |
The cape of Basil Island (Vasilievsky Island) is called a Spit (Strelka) (Tongue of Land) because it sticks out into the Neva Riverin the shape of a spit and divides it into two estuaries. The spot ranks as one of the most prominent architectural sights in Saint- Petersburg. The two almost a hundred feet high redbrick. Rostral Columns raised on the Spit in 1810 and designed by an architect Tomas de Tomon as a symbol of the naval supremacy of the Russian Empire and in honor of the Russian fleet victories. The shafts of the columns are decorated with the sculptural images of bows (rostra) of enemy ships. The five metre high allegoric statues installed at the foot of each column embody the four main Russian northern rivers: Volga, Dnieper, Neva and Volhov. The St.Petersburg Columns were designed as beacons or lighthouses as well and in 1957 the natural gas was laid up to the stone lighting cups at the top of each column, They are still fitted with gas lamps that are lit on ceremonial occasions. They are reminders that until the 1880s this part of Petersburg was a thriving port. |
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| Hermitage | | |
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 |  on April 29, 2008 |
The State Hermitage Museum is one of the largest museums in the world, with 3 million works of art and one of the oldest art galleries and museums of human history and culture in the world. The vast Hermitage collections are displayed in six buildings, the main one being the Winter Palace which used to be the official residence of the Russian Tsars. The Hermitage holds the Guinness World Record as having the world's largest collection of paintings. There were represented Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Rubens, van Dyck, Rembrandt, Poussin, Rodin, Monet, Renoir, van Gogh, Gauguin, Picasso, Matisse and more others. There are several more collections - the Russian imperial regalia, an assortment of Faberge jewellery, and the largest existing collection of ancient gold from Eastern Europe and Western Asia. Open: Tuesdays - Saturdays 10.30 - 17.00 Sundays 10.30 - 16.00 Closed Mondays Ticket windows shut one hour before the museum closes Price: For all other categories of visitors - 350 rubles children, students, members of ICOM - free first Thursday of every month - free foreign citizens working in institutions accredited on the territory of Russia - 100 rubles (proof - permission for permanent residence on the territory of Russia issued by the RF Ministry of Internal Affairs) Photography and video filming: Ticket for the right to take amateur photos - 100 rubles Ticket to take amateur videos - 350 rubles |
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