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На этой странице сайта посетители могут найти маршруты и интересные факты о Санкт-Петербурге

On this page the site visitors can find routes and interesting facts about St. Petersburg

For English visitors

Welcome to St. Petersburg!

One of the world's most beautiful cities, St. Petersburg has all the ingredients for an unforgettable travel experience: high art, lavish architecture, wild nightlife, an extraordinary history and rich cultural traditions that have inspired and nurtured some of the modern world's greatest literature, music, and visual art. From the mysterious twilight of the White Nights to world-beating opera and ballet productions on magical winter evenings, St. Petersburg charms and entices in every season.

The presentation created by our students of

St. Petersburg angels.
Angels are beautiful symbols

of the great city

State Hermitage Museum

St. Petersburg's most popular visitor attraction, and one of the world's largest and most prestigious museums, the Hermitage is a must-see for all first-time travellers to the city. With over 3 million items in its collection, it also definitely rewards repeat visits, and new-comers can only hope to get a brief taste of the riches on offer here, from Impressionist masterpieces to fascinating Oriental treasures. One estimate has it that you would need eleven years to view each exhibit on display for just one minute, so many visitors prefer to organize a guided tour to ensure they have time to catch all the collection's highlights. Art aficionados, however, may find it more rewarding to seek out for themselves the works that they are particularly interested in.

Winter Palace of Peter I

It was long assumed that Peter the Great's original Winter Palace, built by Mattarnovi and Trezzini and completed in 1720, had been completely destroyed to make way for the Hermitage Theatre, erected on the orders of Catherine the Great in 1782-1785. However, architectural research in the 1970s and 1980s revealed that, in designing the theatre, architect Giacomo Quarenghi had in fact retained much of the palace's structure, including several complete rooms, and that, beneath the theatre's stage, a significant portion of the old palace's courtyard was still intact.

Menshikov Palace

The palace of Prince Menshikov was the first large stone building erected in St. Petersburg, and is also the only private city structure to have survived from the beginning of the 18th century. As part of the State Hermitage, it is now used to display some of the museum's vast collection of European and Russian applied art from the early 18th century, as well as contemporaneous sculptures and paintings, all of which blend harmoniously with the beautifully restored interiors.

Church of the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God

Completed in 1783, the beautiful and historic the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God Cathedral is one of the oldest churches in St. Petersburg and presents a truly fascinating combination of baroque and classical architectural styles. The church is crowned with five onion-shaped cupolas, which rise into the sky above Vladimirskaya Ploschad in one of the most historic areas of the city. An impressive four-tiered bell tower stands adjacent to the church. The church is also home to one of the oldest and most elaborate iconostases in Russia.

as the first large stone building erected in St. Petersburg, and is also the only private city structure to have survived from the beginning of the 18th century. As part of the State Hermitage, it is now used to display some of the museum's vast collection of European and Russian applied art from the early 18th century, as well as contemporaneous sculptures and paintings, all of which blend harmoniously with the beautifully restored interiors.

Church of Ss. Simeon and Anna

On one of St. Petersburg's most picturesque corners, where Ulitsa Belinskogo crosses the Fontanka River, the Church of Ss. Simeon and Anna is one of St. Petersburg's oldest churches, and one of the finest examples of early baroque architecture in the city.

The first wooden church was built on this site on the orders of Peter the Great in 1714, to celebrate the birth of his daughter Anna. Empress Anna Ionnovna, who came to the throne in 1730, also considered St. Anna to be her patron, and instructed architect Mikhail Zemtsov to design a stone replacement for the wooden church. Zemtsov, a pupil of Domenico Trezinni, is considered to be Russia's first home-bred architect, and the result of his work was this beautifully simple church, with soaring spire and polygonal cupola, painted in softly contrasting shades of yellow and white.

Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul

The Cathedral of SS Peter and Paul is the oldest church in St. Petersburg, and also the second-tallest building in the city (after the television tower). It is intimately linked to both the history of the city and to the Romanov dynasty, as it is home to the graves of nearly all the rulers of Russia since Peter the Great.

St. Isaac's Cathedral

St. Isaac's Cathedral was originally the city's main church and the largest cathedral in Russia. It was built between 1818 and 1858, by the French-born architect Auguste Montferrand, to be one of the most impressive landmarks of the Russian Imperial capital. One hundred and eighty years later the gilded dome of St. Isaac's still dominates the skyline of St. Petersburg. Although the cathedral is considerably smaller than the newly rebuilt Church of Christ the Savior in Moscow, it boasts much more impressive fades and interiors.

Smolny Cathedral

The dazzling cupolas of Smolny Cathedral, one of the most beautiful churches in St. Petersburg, rise majestically from its waterside location on the banks of the Neva River.

Smolny Cathedral was designed by Italian architect Bartolomeo Rastrelli, who came to Russia as a boy with his father, who was invited to the country by Peter the Great and who constructed the Winter Palace and the palace at Tsarskoe Selo. Smolny Cathedral was one of Rastrelli Jr.'s last projects, and one that the great architect left unfinished.

Nevsky Prospekt

Nevsky Prospekt is the heart and soul of St. Petersburg. Running right through the centre of the city, it links two of the city's most important landmarks, the Admiralty and the Alexander Nevsky Monastery. Among the scores of notable buildings lining the street are Gostiny Dvor, Kazan Cathedral, Moscow Railway Station and many more.

In times gone by: An era-by-era history of St. Petersburg

The monument

to the Petersburg photographer

Monastyretskaya Valeria

Vukolova Polina 7A

School №639

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Introduction

Hello, dear guests! We are students of the 7A form. Together we created an unusual route, through the heart of St Petersburg.

We decided to choose special sights, not so popular as the Winter Palace or the Bronze Horseman.

The route starts near The Peter and Paul Fortress, the original citadel of St Petersburg, founded by Peter the Great on Hare Island. During our the excursion you will be able to see the sculpture of the hare, not far from the fortress wall.

Afterwards the group will cross the Neva and find themselves on the embankment of the Fontanka River, near Mikhailovsky Castle, a fine example of architecture of the 19-th century. Here we can meet another tiny “citizen” of St Petersburg. It is the sculpture of a siskin, called «Chizhik-Pyzhik».

As we move on we approach the sculpture, connected with the 20th century. It is a monument to a St.Petersburg photographer.

We are absolutely sure that such unusual features create the unique character of our native city and make its history closer to teenagers.

We’ve made our presentations to tell you about the tiny monuments of Saint-Petersburg. Join us on this enjoyable tour!