History of the St. Petersburg

Saint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject located in Northwestern Federal District of Russia on the delta of the Neva River at the east end of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. Founded by Tsar Peter the Great on May 27, 1703 as a "window to Europe", it served as the capital of the Russian Empire for more than two hundred years.

History of St. Petersburg bridges

• Bridges over northern branches of the Neva
• Bridges over the Neva
• Anichkov bridge
• St. Petersburg’s suspension bridges
• Bridges between Engneers' castle and Palace square
• First cast-iron bridges
• Fontanka granite bridges
• Old Kolomna bridges
• Bridges over the Griboyedov canal
• Bridges over the Winter canal
• More (13) »

The Peter and Paul fortress

• → History of the Peter and Paul fortress (7)
• → The Peter and Paul fortress today (8)

The State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg

• The History of the Museum

• → Russian Culture (7)
• → Prehistoric culture (1)
• → Culture of the peoples of the east (11)
• → Art and culture of antiquity (4)
• → Western european art (20)

Novgorod - monuments of ancient architecture

• St Sophia Cathedral
• History of the Novgorod
• Wooden church (17th century)
• Wooden Kuritskaya Church
• The Antoniev Monastery
• Church of St Andrew Stratilates
• Belfry of St Sophia Cathedral. Detail of the western facade
• Kremlin-citadel. Belfry of St Sophia Cathedral
• Entrance arch of the kremlin
• Kremlin towers and the Volkhov River
• More (29) »

Arkhangelskoye estate museum

• Arkhangelskoye Estate history

• → Views and architecture (7)
• → Interiors (9)
• → Sculptures (11)
• → Painting (4)
• → Over (2)

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An on-line compilation of a photographic study of the bridges in Leningrad (the former name of Saint Petersburg), published by Aurora Art Publishers, Leningrad, 1975.