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Shemyakin Mikhail Mikhailovich
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Peter the Great, Monuments to (entry)
PETER THE GREAT, MONUMENTS TO. Monument projects to Peter the Great in the capital founded by him appeared during his lifetime (particularly by N. Pinot, B. Tarsia). In 1716-20, B
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Pioneering Builders of Petersburg, Monument to the
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
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Pushkin Centre
PUSHKIN CENTRE, State Pushkin Theatre Centre in St. Petersburg (41 Fontanka River Embankment), theatre and publishing organisation established in 1992 by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation
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Robespierre Embankment
ROBESPIERRE EMBANKMENT (in 1887-1916 Voskresenskaya Embankment, after the Holy Resurrection Church; until 1923 Belgiiskaya Embankment), on the left bank of the Neva River, between Smolnaya Embankment and Liteiny Avenue
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Saigon Cafe
SAIGON. The restaurant Moscow, whose informal name was Saigon, existed in the 1960-80s (49 Nevsky Prospect; its second informal name was Moscow Region). Opened in 1964, the cafe soon became a meeting place for Leningrad youth subcultures
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Sphinxes
SPHINXES. Mythical creatures with the body of lion and a human head. In the second half of the 18th century, marble sphinxes were installed in the Private Garden in Gatchina and at the Osinovaya Roscha estate
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St. Peter and Paul fortress
ST. PETER AND PAUL FORTRESS, the historical centre of St. Petersburg, a monument of military engineering, the oldest engineering and architectural sight of the city
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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
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Victims of Political Repressions, Monuments,
MONUMENTS TO THE VICTIMS OF POLITICAL REPRESSIONS, the foundation stone of the monument To the Victims of Political Repressions in Petrograd -Leningrad was laid in 1990 on Revolyutsii Square that was given its historical name, Troitskaya Square
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