Commandant's Department (Ordonansgaus)

Categories / Architecture/Architectural Monuments/Public Buildings and Edifices
Categories / Army. Navy/Quarters, Arsenals, Riding-halls, Guardhouses, etc.
COMMANDANT'S DEPARTMENT (Ordonansgaus) (3 Sadovaya Street), architectural monument of late classicism, constructed in 1824-26 (architect А.А. Mikhailov, second project of K.I. Rossi). It is enclosed in the ensemble of the Mikhailovskaya Square (see Arts Square). From the rear, the first and second floors are fitted out with arcade galleries, and the third floor - with Doric pillars. The interior is designed in a simple, practical manner. The basement rooms are arched, the hall and the rooms on the third floor have two rows of windows, one above the other. One of the ladder rooms, round in the plan, is arched with a wooden cupola with a lantern in the middle. At present, the building houses the Garrison Commandant's Office.

A. A. Alexeev. Mikhaylov (Mikhaylov 2nd) Andrey Alexeevich
Rossi Carl Ivanovich (Carlo Giovanni)
Iskusstv Square/Saint Petersburg, city
Sadovaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 3
см. при ст. Искусств площадь.