The National Library of Russia (NLR), located in Saint Petersburg, is the first, and one of three national public libraries in Russia. The NLR is currently ranked among the world’s major libraries. It has the second biggest library collection in the Russian…

Great Gostiny Dvor is a vast department store on Nevsky Avenue in St Petersburg. Architect Jean-Baptiste Vallin de la Mothe (1729–1800). It is under the protection of UNESCO. Located in the historical center of St. Petersburg, it occupies a quarter between…

Singer House, also widely known as the House of the Book, is a historic building in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It is located at the intersection of Nevsky Prospekt and the Griboyedov Canal, directly opposite the Kazan Cathedral. It is recognized as a historical…

Kazan Cathedral (Cathedral of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God) is one of the largest churches in St. Petersburg. It was built on Nevsky Prospekt in 1801-1811 by architect Andrey Voronikhin in the style of Russian classicism to store the revered list of…

The Stroganov Palace is a late Baroque palace at the intersection of the Moyka River and Nevsky Prospekt in St. Petersburg, Russia. The Stroganov Palace is designed by the architect Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli in 1753-1754, one of the examples of Rastrelli’s…

Chicherin House is a historical landmark building located at Nevsky Prospekt 15 (between Bolshaya Morskaya Street and Moyka River embankment, Green bridge) in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It is also known as Kosikovsky House and Barrikada cinema theater. The…

The General Staff Building is an edifice with a 580 m long bow-shaped facade, situated on Palace Square in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in front of the Winter Palace. The construction of the building lasted from 1819 to 1829. Architect: K. I. Rossi. Sculptors:…

Vladimir Palace is the residence of Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich, located in St. Petersburg, Neva river (Palace Embankment, 26). Today it’s the House of Scientists named after M. Gorky of the Russian Academy of Sciences is an association of employees…

The Novo-Mikhailovsky Palace is an architectural monument of federal significance, the Grand Duke’s Palace, located in the center of St. Petersburg at 18, Palace Embankment (Neva river) and 19, Millionnaya Street (ringmaster Corps building). The architect…

  Saint Michael’s Castle (or Mikhailovsky, or Engineer Castle) – a former imperial palace in the center of St. Petersburg at Sadovaya Street, No. 2, at the turn of the 18th-19th centuries, built as a castle on the water by order of Emperor Paul I and became…

Passage (Пасса́ж) is one of the oldest and largest trading houses in St. Petersburg. Postal address – Nevsky Prospekt, house number 48. The building of the department store was built in 1846-1848, opened on May 9, 1848. The architect was R. A. Zhelyazevich…

The Menshikov Palace (a branch of the Hermitage) in St. Petersburg was built for the first Governor-General of St. Petersburg Alexander Danilovich Menshikov as a residential and administrative-public building. The palace is made in the style of Peter the…

The building of the Twelve Colleges is a building on the University embankment of Vasilevsky Island in St. Petersburg, built in 1722-1742 to accommodate Peter’s collegiums. The largest monument of the Petrine Baroque in size consists of twelve identical three…

The building of the Academy of Sciences on Universitetskaya embankment in St. Petersburg (house No. 5) was built according to the planning project of Vasilevsky Island in 1767. At first, the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences was located in the house of P.…

The Stock Exchange building is the central building of the architectural ensemble of the Spit of Vasilyevsky Island in St. Petersburg. The building, which is situated at Birzhevaya Ploschad 4, is an important example of Greek Revival architecture. Designed…

House of the College of Foreign Affairs is a building of strict classicism on English Embankment (32a), Neva river, St. Petersburg. In the 1750s the plot belonged to Prince B. A. Kurakin who to build a large two-story house on the English embankment and an…

The Nicholas Palace is a three-story residence of Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolayevich in the depths of a fenced square on Blagoveshchenskaya Square in St. Petersburg (now Labor Square). It was built in 1853-1861 by the famous eclectic master A. I. Stackenschneider…

Utin’s Profitable house (Konnogvardeisky Boulevard, 17) is the house with an attic floor was built in 1858 by architect R.I. Kuzmin for the titular adviser, merchant of the 1st guild I.O. Utin. Interestingly, this is the first residential building in St.…

Horse Guards Manege is a monumental building in the style of classicism, which was built in St. Petersburg in 1804-1807 according to the project of Giacomo Quarenghi for winter and summer training, as well as ceremonial horse dressage of the Life Guards Horse…

The Myatlev House was built in the 1760s in St. Petersburg. Its author could be A. Rinaldi or Yu. M. Felten and it is the oldest building on St. Isaac’s Square near St. Isaac’s Cathedral. The question of the author of the project of the house has not been…

The building of the Ministry of Agriculture and State Property – Research Institute of Plant Industry. N. I. Vavilova, №4 Address: St. Petersburg, Isaakievskaya sq., 4 Architects: Efimov N. E. Year built: 1844-1853 Style: Neo-Renaissance _____________ House…