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Adress index / Saint Petersburg, city / Inzhenernaya Street
История переименований:
Inzhenernaya St. (as of 1836)

Chancellery, His Imperial Majesty's Personal

CHANCELLERY, HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY'S Personal, a supreme public institution. The Chancellery consisted of several divisions, which were established during the first half of the 19th century to carry out the Sovereign's personal supervision over

First of March, 1881

FIRST OF MARCH 1881, the day Emperor Alexander II was assassinated, prepared and accomplished by the party People's Will. The plan included exploding the Emperor's carriage on its way to the Mikhailovsky Manege

Inzhenernaya Street

INZHENERNAYA STREET, running from Griboedova Canal to Belinskogo Square. The street was named in 1823 after the Principal Engineering College, which was located in the Mikhaylovsky Castle

Iskusstv Square

ISKUSSTV SQUARE, situated between Inzhenernaya Street and Italyanskaya Street. Known as Mikhaylovskaya Square from 1834 to 1918, then called Lassalya Square until 1940, in memory of German socialist F. Lassal (1825-64)

Mikhailovsky Castle

MIKHAILOVSKY CASTLE (since 1823, Engineer's Castle) (2 Sadovaya Street), a Neoclassical architectural monument. It was constructed in 1797-1801 (architects V.I. Bazhenov, V. F

Mikhailovsky Palace

Mikhailovsky Palace (2/4 Inzhenernaya Street), an architectural monument of high classicism. It was constructed from 1819-1825 for the wedding of Grand Prince Mikhail Pavlovich and Grand Princess Elena Pavlovna (architect K.I

Neoclassicism

NEOCLASSICISM, a traditionalist movement of the first half of the 20th century architecture, based on the assimilation of 18th - early 19th century Russian architecture. In St

Printing Yard, a Printing house

PRINTING YARD (15 Chkalovsky Avenue) is a printing house, the largest producer of books and journals in the North-Western Region of Russia. It originates from the printing house of the Commission For Developing Laws established in 1817; from 1882

Russian Ethnographical Museum

RUSSIAN ETHNOGRAPHICAL MUSEUM, at 4а Inzhenernaya Street, was established in 1902 as the Ethnographical Department of the Russian Museum. The museum was opened in 1923. It became independent in 1934 as the State Museum of Ethnography

Russian Museum, State

RUSSIAN MUSEUM, State was founded on 13 April 1895 by the decree of Emperor Nicholas II as the Russian Museum of Emperor Alexander III with the purpose of gathering the collections of Russian art

Svinyin P. P. (1787-1839),writer, journalist, regional ethnographer

SVINYIN Pavel Petrovich (1787-1839), writer, journalist, collector, honorary associate of the Academy of Arts (1827), member of the Russian Academy (1833) received his primary education at the Boarding School for Nobility affiliated to the Moscow

Svinyin V.F. (1865-1939), architect

SVINYIN Vasily Fedorovich (1865-1939, Leningrad), architect, engineer, representative of Neoclassicism. Resided in St. Petersburg from 1883, worked as a house-builder, foreman, assistant architect. Graduated from the Academy of Arts (1892)