Saint Petersburg encyclopaedia

Simple search

Advanced search

Name
Address
Text
Person
Rubric

alphabet

Pevchesky Bridge

Categories / Architecture/Bridges

PEVCHESKY BRIDGE (Chants' Bridge), over the Moika River, at Pevchesky Passage, opposite Palace Square, besides the building of the Pevcheskaya (Choral) Chapel, (hence the name of the bridge). The bridge was built in 1839-1840 (engineer E.A. Adam) to replace a wooden girder bridge built here in 1834 (architect A.A. Montferrand) to let the troops participating in the parade for the opening of Alexander Column pass through to Palace Square. The span of the bridge was covered with a hingeless cast-iron tubbing vault. The rubble abutments are faced with granite. The cast-iron tracery railing of the bridge serves as its principal decoration. The bridge is about 24 metres long and 72 metres wide.

D. Y. Guzevich, S.Z. Suponitsky, N.M. Kozlovskaya.

Persons

Adam Egor Andreevich
Montferrand Auguste Augustovich (Henri Louis Auguste Leger Ricard de)

Addresses

Dvortsovaya Square/Saint Petersburg, city
Pevchesky Lane/Saint Petersburg, city

The subject Index

Alexander Column

Mentioned in articles (3)

Pevchesky Bridge across the Moika River.

2/4

hidden

Bridges (entry) BRIDGES, an integral part of the urban planning structure and architectural appearance of St. Petersburg. In 2002, the city numbered 342 bridges of various kinds and types; in Kronstadt: 5 bridges, Pushkin: 54 bridges, Petrodvorets: 51 bridges

hidden

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

hidden