Pictures of Imperial Petersburg 2

I. The Imperial City 2

14. General Staff Headquarters (which also housed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs) on Palace Square opposite from the Winter Palace. Carlo Rossi designed the bow-shaped Headquarters in the Neo-Classical style in 1819-29. The design made the Palace Square unusually large and a good space for parades etc., still used for May 1st and other celebrations and political rallies. In 1977 the square was resurfaced for the 60th anniversary of the October Revolution. The two wings of the building are divided by the triumphal arches which commemorate the victory over Napoleon. Photo: Gitta Hammarberg 1991.

15. General Staff Headquarters Arches, Carlo Rossi 1819-29, close-up. Decorated with martial emblems, warriors, winged figures, allegories of glory. On top is the female symbol of Victory, standing in a chariot drawn by six horses. Sculptures by Pimenov and Demut-Malinovskii. The double arches connect Palace Square with Nevskii Prospekt. Photo: Gitta Hammarberg 1991.

16. Palace Square with The Winter Palace, the base of the Alexander Column and the Admiralty Spire. Photo: Gitta Hammarberg 1986

17. The Twelve Colleges, now part of St. Petersburg University. 1722-42 by several architects: Domenico Trezzini, Theodor Schwertfeger. Originally commissioned by Peter the Great, but smaller than intended because of Prince Menshikov's adjacent palace and land. The "colleges" were originally part of Peter's administration: departments of foreign affairs, warfare, finances, etc. Photo: Gitta Hammarberg 1991.

18. Mikhail Lomonosov (1711-1765) monument between the university and the Academy of Sciences. Co-founder of the university, lived and worked in St. Petersburg at the Academy of Sciences which was at that time housed in the Kunstkamera nearby on the University embankment of the Neva. In 1745 he was appointed as Russia's first professor of Chemistry, but also knew physics, astronomy, wrote a Russian grammar as well as versification treatises and was a major representative of Neo-Classicist poetry. Photo: Gitta Hammarberg 1991.

19. Menshikov Palace. The former home of one of Peter the Great's closests advisors. This was the first stone house built in St. Petersburg and typical early St. Petersburg architecture. On the University Embankment on the Vasilevskii Island side, constructed by Fontana and later also Schädel in 1710-20, surrounded by a grand park. Now a museum housing a collection of Russian 18th-century culture, including several rooms entirely in Delft tile.

20. The Kunstkamera. The first in the row of magnificent buildings on the University Embankment. Now houses the Museum of Ethnography and the Lomonosov Museum. Commissioned by Peter the Great in 1718 for his collection of curiosities. Finished in 1734. Still houses Peter's collection. Photo: Gitta Hammarberg 1991.

21. View of the Strelka from the Peter and Paul Fortress. Photo: Gitta Hammarberg 1991

22. The Strelka, the Eastern point of Vasilevskii Island. Pushkin Square with the two rostral columns (110 feet high, erected in 1810 in honor of the navy, decorated with prows of ships and allegorical figures representing the rivers: Volga, Dniepr, Neva, and Volkhov). Formerly lighthouses. Between the columns stands the Stock Exchange Building, now Central Naval Museum, neo-Classical style, 1805-10 by Thomon. 44 Doric columns rise above a granite base. To the right of it is the cupola of the "Pushkin House," the Institute of Russian Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Houses manuscripts, first editions, personal archives, of Pushkin, Tolstoy, Dostoevskii, Turgenev, Gogol, and others as well as a good collection of portraits of writers. This building used to be the Customs House, built in 1829-32. Photo: Gitta Hammarberg 1991.

23. Pushkin Square on the Strelka. Photo: Gitta Hammarberg 1991

24. Peter and Paul Fortress view from the Troitskii Bridge over the Neva. Photo: Hammarberg 1991.

25. Cathedral of SS Peter and Paul (Domenico Trezzini 1712-33) within the fortress. View from the Strelka. This spire , together with the similarly needle shaped spire of the Admiralty give St. Petersburg its characteristic sky line and these landmarks are beloved images in poetry. Photo: Gitta Hammarberg 1991.

26. St. Isaac's Cathedral-view from a Moika canal boat by the Blue Bridge. Photo: Gitta Hammarberg 1991.

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14.	General Staff Headquarters (which also housed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs) on Palace Square opposite from the Winter Palace. Carlo Rossi designed the bow-shaped Headquarters in the Neo-Classical style in 1819-29. The design made the Palace Square unusually large and a good space for parades etc., still used for May 1st and other celebrations and political rallies. In 1977 the square was resurfaced for the 60th anniversary of the October Revolution. The two wings of the building are divided by the triumphal arches which commemorate the victory over Napoleon. Photo: Gitta Hammarberg 1991.
15.	General Staff Headquarters Arches, Carlo Rossi 1819-29, close-up. Decorated with martial emblems, warriors, winged figures, allegories of glory. On top is the female symbol of Victory, standing in a chariot drawn by six horses. Sculptures by Pimenov and Demut-Malinovskii. The double arches connect Palace Square with Nevskii Prospekt. Photo: Gitta Hammarberg 1991.
16.	Palace Square with The Winter Palace, the base of the Alexander Column and the Admiralty Spire. Photo: Gitta Hammarberg 1986
17.	The Twelve Colleges, now part of St. Petersburg University. 1722-42 by several architects: Domenico Trezzini, Theodor Schwertfeger. Originally commissioned by Peter the Great, but smaller than intended because of Prince Menshikov's adjacent palace and land. The "colleges" were originally part of Peter's administration: departments of foreign affairs, warfare, finances, etc. Photo: Gitta Hammarberg 1991.
18.	Mikhail Lomonosov (1711-1765) monument between the university and the Academy of Sciences. Co-founder of the university, lived and worked in St. Petersburg at the Academy of Sciences which was at that time housed in the Kunstkamera nearby on the University embankment of the Neva. In 1745 he was appointed as Russia's first professor of Chemistry, but also knew physics, astronomy, wrote a Russian grammar as well as versification treatises and was a major representative of Neo-Classicist poetry. Photo: Gitta Hammarberg 1991.
19.	Menshikov Palace. The former home of one of Peter the Great's closests advisors. This was the first stone house built in St. Petersburg and typical early St. Petersburg architecture. On the University Embankment on the Vasilevskii Island side, constructed by Fontana and later also Schädel in 1710-20, surrounded by a grand park. Now a museum housing a collection of Russian 18th-century culture, including several rooms entirely in Delft tile.
20.	The Kunstkamera. The first in the row of magnificent buildings on the University Embankment. Now houses the Museum of Ethnography and the Lomonosov Museum. Commissioned by Peter the Great in 1718 for his collection of curiosities. Finished in 1734. Still houses Peter's collection. Photo: Gitta Hammarberg 1991.
21.	View of the Strelka from the Peter and Paul Fortress. Photo: Gitta Hammarberg 1991
22.	The Strelka, the Eastern point of Vasilevskii Island. Pushkin Square with the two rostral columns (110 feet high, erected in 1810 in honor of the navy, decorated with prows of ships and allegorical figures representing the rivers: Volga, Dniepr, Neva, and Volkhov). Formerly lighthouses. Between the columns stands the Stock Exchange Building, now Central Naval Museum, neo-Classical style, 1805-10 by Thomon. 44 Doric columns rise above a granite base. To the right of it is the cupola of the "Pushkin House," the Institute of Russian Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Houses manuscripts, first editions, personal archives, of Pushkin, Tolstoy, Dostoevskii, Turgenev, Gogol, and others as well as a good collection of portraits of writers. This building used to be the Customs House, built in 1829-32. Photo: Gitta Hammarberg 1991.
23.	Pushkin Square on the Strelka. Photo: Gitta Hammarberg 1991
24.	Peter and Paul Fortress view from the Troitskii Bridge over the Neva. Photo: Hammarberg 1991.
25.	Cathedral of SS Peter and Paul (Domenico Trezzini 1712-33) within the fortress. View from the Strelka. This spire , together with the similarly needle shaped spire of the Admiralty give St. Petersburg its characteristic sky line and these landmarks are beloved images in poetry. Photo: Gitta Hammarberg 1991.
26.	St. Isaac's Cathedral-view from a Moika canal boat by the Blue Bridge. Photo: Gitta Hammarberg 1991.