Saint Basil’s Cathedral
An unparalleled Russian Orthodox church on Moscow's Red Square, built 1555–1561 with nine iconic onion domes. A symbol…
An unparalleled Russian Orthodox church on Moscow's Red Square, built 1555–1561 with nine iconic onion domes. A symbol…
An Armenian Apostolic church on Nevsky Prospect, built in the 1770s as one of Russia's earliest Armenian churches.
A 1230s white-stone cathedral in Yuryev-Polsky, the last pre-Mongol Vladimir-Suzdal church, famed for carved reliefs scattered by a…
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 merchant-funded Kazan cathedral from 1722, prized as one of Russia's finest Naryshkin Baroque churches, blending oriental touches…
A Quarenghi-designed Neoclassical mansion on Saint Petersburg's Palace Embankment, home to the Saltykov family, Austrian and British embassies,…
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