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Charlemagne Ludwig Iosifovich
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Charlemagne L. I. (1784-1845), architect
CHARLEMAGNE Ludovik Iosifovich (1784 - 1845, St. Petersburg), architect, master of the Empire style. I. I. Charlemagne's brother. Upon graduating the Academy of Fine Arts (1806) worked as the assistant of the architects L. Rusca and А.А. Mikhailov
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Alexandrovsky Garden
ALEXANDROVSKY GARDEN (in 1920-89 - the Maxim Gorky Workers' Garden, in 1989-97 - Admiralty Garden) is situated along the south and the west facades of the Main Admiralty, with an area of 10 hectares. In 1805-06, gardener W
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Charlemagne I. I. (1782-1861), architect
CHARLEMAGNE Iosif Iosifovich (1782 - 1861, St. Petersburg), architect, graphic artist, privy counsellor (1861). Born to a family of French origin, the brother of L.I. Charlemagne. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts (1803)
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Glinka Capella
THE GLINKA CAPELLA (Leningrad Academic Glinka Capella), 20 Moika River Embankment, the oldest professional choir. It takes its origin in the Choir of Sovereign’s Chorister Scribes established in Moscow in 1479 for singing at church services and
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Grilles (entry)
GRILLES. St. Petersburg boasts a number of unique metal grilles, created in the course of three centuries. Wrought grilles of bars with (sometimes gilded) decorative figures made from flat iron bars (the grille of the Ekaterininsky (Catherine)
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Inzhenerny Bridges
INZHENERNY BRIDGES (Engineer’s, two bridges in the district of Engineers' (see Mikhailovsky) Castle (hence the name). The first Engineers' Bridge (formerly Letny Bridge) spans the Moika River, along the Fontanka River
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Kamennoostrovsky Avenue
KAMENNOOSTROVSKY AVENUE, located between Troitskaya Square and the Bolshaya Nevka River Embankment. The main thoroughfare joining the city centre and the Petrogradskaya Side with Aptekarsky Island and Kamenny Island
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Kamenny Island, ensemble
KAMENNY ISLAND (in 1920-89 - Trudyashchikhsya Island), in the north-west part of the Neva river delta, located between the Bolshaya Nevka River to the north and the Malaya Nevka River to the south, the Krestovka River lies to the east
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Landings, Water (entry)
LANDINGS, WATER. Ship landings were present in St. Petersburg from the first years of its existence. Their location depended on the location and orientation of storage warehouses
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Lyceum
LYCEUM, Tsarskoe Selo Lyceum renamed Alexandrovsky Lyceum in 1843, a privileged higher education institution providing training for state officials. It was founded in 1810 and opened on 19 October 1811
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Manors and Dachas (entry)
MANORS AND DACHAS. Within the precincts of modern St. Petersburg a number of the 18th -19th centuries manors and dachas (summer residences) have been preserved, also there are some fragments of manors on Petergofskaya (Peterhof) road
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Prisons (entry)
PRISONS. The first prison in St. Petersburg (Convict gaol, or Convict yard, until 1732 under the jurisdiction of the Admiralty) was built in 1706 in the area of present-day Truda square
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St. Nicholas Psychiatric Hospital
ST. NICHOLAS PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL (126 Moika River Embankment). The predecessor of the hospital was the Temporary Clinic for the Insane of the Correctional Institute (1865) which was housed in the building of the prison (1840, the architect L.I
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Summer Garden
SUMMER GARDEN (Dvortsovaya Embankment), an 18th-19th century landscaping monument. It is the oldest city garden in the central part of St. Petersburg, and is situated on the left bank of Neva, on an island formed by Fontanka River
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Vyborgskaya Embankment
VYBORGSKAYA EMBANKMENT on the right bank of the Bolshaya Nevka River between Maly Sampsonievsky Avenue and Chernaya Rechka Embankment. The name originated from Vyborgskaya Side in 1887
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