New Holland

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NEW HOLLAND (103 Moika River Embankment), a complex of storage facilities situated on the cognominal island (with an area of approximately 3 hectares), appearing in 1720 after the laying out of the Admiralty and Kryukov canals of the Moika River. New Holland has a central basin which was linked in 1765 with the Moika River and the Kryukov Canal. The island's perimeter is made up of wooden storage facilities (1732-38, architect I. K. Korobov), where ship timber for the Admiralty Shipyard was dried and stored employing the so-called Dutch technique. This was also where small row boats were built. In 1765-88, an architectural monument, a complex of stone storehouses in the style of early Classicism (architects S. I. Chevansky, I. K. Gerard; facades from 1765, architect J. B. Vallin de la Mothe) was erected along New Holland's southern and eastern sides. The storehouse's water entryway is decorated with a red brick arch, and the rigidly proportional Tuscan order columns are constructed of hewn red granite blocks with grey calcareous tuff details (also know as Pudost limestone). The facade's rounded angels are coupled with columns of the same Tuscan stone, and the high archivolt walls with rusticated pilaster-strips. In 1828-29, the western part of New Holland saw the construction of a round three-story 500 person naval prison called the "Prisoners' Tower" (architect А. Е. Staubert), and the Commandant's House (architect unknown). In 1847-50, a storage facility and a forge building were built in the north-eastern corner according to a 1765 design by military engineer М. А. Pasypkin. In 1893, a "Model Water Tank" for testing ship models was constructed on the territory of New Holland, where shipbuilder A. N. Krylov worked in 1900-08. In 1915, the Navy General Staff installed a spark gap radio station called New Holland with the highest capacity in Russia at the time (from October 1917, it was used by the Soviets to wire telegrams, decrees and proclamations; in 1924 was closed down). Today, the New Holland complex is under the control of the Military Department.

References: Васильев Б. Л. Памятники русского зодчества XVIII века: Новые материалы о проектировании и стр-ве складов "Новой Голландии" // СиАЛ. 1952. Сб. 18. С. 37-40; Крашенинников А. Ф. Лесные склады на острове Новая Голландия в Петербурге // Архитектурное наследство. Л.; М., 1972. Сб. 19. С. 96-101.

S. V. Boglachev. Chevakinsky Savva Ivanovich
Gerard Ivan (Johann Konrad) Kondratievich
Korobov Ivan Kuzmich
Krylov Alexander Nikolaevich
Pasypkin Mikhail Alexandrovich
Shtaubert Alexander Egorovich
Vallin de la Mothe Jean Baptiste Michel
Moika River Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 103
Васильев Б. Л. Памятники русского зодчества XVIII века: Новые материалы о проектировании и стр-ве складов "Новой Голландии" // Стр-во и архитектура Ленинграда, 1952
Крашенинников А. Ф. Лесные склады на острове Новая Голландия в Петербурге // Архитектурное наследство., 1972 Admiralty Shipyard
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