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Entries / Pioneering Builders of Petersburg, Monument to the

Pioneering Builders of Petersburg, Monument to the


Categories / Architecture/Sculpture, Monuments

PIONEERING BUILDERS OF PETERSBURG, MONUMENT TO THE, unveiled on 16 October 1995 in the park on Lesnoy Avenue, next to St. Sampson Cathedral where the first city cemetreies, the Orthodox one and the German one used to be located. The monument is dedicated to the architects, builders and citizens of St. Petersburg reposing "at St. Sampson’s”. The granite arch with bronze reliefs symbolizes the "window to Europe" made by Peter the Great, by which St. Petersburg brings together Russia and Europe (architect V.B. Bukhaev, artist M.M. Shemyakin). The monument is five metres high.

References: Пирютко Ю. М. Между Ленинградом и Петербургом: Памятники на исходе столетия (1986-1999) // Невский архив: Ист.-краевед. сб. СПб., 1999. [Вып.] 4. С. 464-479.

Y. M. Piryutko.

Persons
Bukhaev Vyacheslav Borisovich
Shemyakin Mikhail Mikhailovich

Addresses
Lesnaya Ave/Saint Petersburg, city

Bibliographies
Пирютко Ю. М. Между Ленинградом и Петербургом: Памятники на исходе столетия (1986-1999) // Невский архив: Ист.-краевед. сб. СПб., 1999

Chronograph
1995


Cemeteries (entry)

CEMETERIES. Even before the foundation of St. Petersburg there were several necropolises on the location of the future city: the records of the beginning of the 18th century indicate a Finnish-Swedish cemetery at Elagin (Aptekarsky) Island

Sampsonievsky Bolshoy Avenue

SAMPSONIEVSKY BOLSHOY AVENUE, named Samsonievskaya Street in 1739, then B. Samsonievsky Avenue in the early 19th century, receiving its present name in the late 19th century

Trezzini D. (1670-1734), architect.

TREZZINI Domenico (circa 1670-1734), Italian of Swiss descent, architect, city-planner, representative of the Petrine Baroque (Peter's the Great epoch). From 1703, lived in Russia