Saint Andrew’s Cathedral (Saint Petersburg)
The last Baroque cathedral built in Saint Petersburg, this five-domed pink structure was conceived under Peter the Great…
The last Baroque cathedral built in Saint Petersburg, this five-domed pink structure was conceived under Peter the Great…
An Armenian Apostolic church on Nevsky Prospect, built in the 1770s as one of Russia's earliest Armenian churches.
A fortress-like imperial palace built in 1797–1801 for Emperor Paul I, this anomalous residence combines French, Italian and…
For roughly fifteen years before the First World War, Saint Petersburg developed its own reading of Art Nouveau,…
Quarenghi's 1804–07 Greek Revival riding hall on Saint Isaac's Square, later an NKVD garage, now Saint Petersburg's main…
The oldest surviving church in St. Petersburg, consecrated in 1740, with five golden domes built to commemorate Peter…
A Quarenghi-designed Neoclassical mansion on Saint Petersburg's Palace Embankment, home to the Saltykov family, Austrian and British embassies,…
A Baroque merchant church that once dominated Sennaya Square, demolished in 1961 under Khrushchev's anti-religious campaign; only a…
A Neoclassical palace on Saint Petersburg's Fontanka, home to Naryshkins and Shuvalovs, damaged in WWII, now the Fabergé…
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