Saint Petersburg

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Saint Petersburg

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Dear guest, let me tell you about my favorite city Saint
Petersburg and show its historical and architectural sights.

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Saint Peterburg is the second
largest city in Russia. It is located
on the Neva River at the head
of the Gulf of Finland on the
Baltic Sea.

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The history of St. Petersburg begins with the date of the foundation of the Peter
and Paul Fortress on Zayachy Island. In 1704, the Kronstadt Fortress was founded
on Kotlin Island, and a year later the Admiralty Shipyard was founded. In 1712,
St. Petersburg became the capital of Russia.

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The oldest and most famous part —
Admiralty — is bounded by Neva, Moika,
Summer Garden and Admiralty Factory. It is
divided into two very different halves. The
one where the central street — Bolshaya
Morskaya — remembers both Gogol and
Pushkin, although there are only five
buildings of the same age as Alexander
Sergeevich there.

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Please, pay you attention to this historical building. The Winter Palace is the ceremonial
residence of the Romanov House, built in the middle of the XVIII century in St. Petersburg
by order of Empress Elizabeth. The spectacular Baroque building was the first in the
complex of buildings forming the modern Hermitage. The main facade of the Winter
Palace overlooks the Palace Square – the most visited attraction of the Northern capital.

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Russian Russian architect and painter Andrey
Nikiforovich Voronikhin, a representative of classicism,
one of the founders of the Russian Empire.Voronikhin's
main creation was the cathedral in honor of the Icon
of the Kazan Mother of God in St. Petersburg.
Voronikhin's other works include the House of the State
Treasury, the building of the Mining Institute,
colonnades and a cascade in Peterhof.

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Domenico Andrea Trezzini is an Italian architect and engineer. According to Trezzini's projects,
Kronstadt (1704) and the Alexander Nevsky Lavra (1717) were laid, in 1706 the reconstruction of
the Peter and Paul Fortress in stone was begun, part of the regular layout of Vasilievsky Island
(1715) was completed, the Summer Palace of Peter I in the Summer Garden (1710-1711) was built.
One of the most famous buildings named after Trezzini is the hotel.

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Interesting facts
1. A dangerous monument.
One of the sightseeing routes necessarily lies past
the Alexander Column, installed in honor of the
victory in the war with Napoleon. The height of the
historical monument is 47 meters, and the weight is
700,000 kg! But the most remarkable thing is that it is
absolutely not fixed by anything and in a vertical
position it is held by a feature of geometric shape
and weight.

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2. The largest malachite in the world.
Already under Catherine II , the largest piece of malachite weighing
1504 kg was mined at the Turchanin mine . It was presented
personally to the Empress. The nugget is kept to this day in the Mining
Museum of St. Petersburg.

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3. The deepest subway in the world is St.
Petersburg. After all, its depth reaches 70-80
meters.
4. The famous Chizhik-Pyzhik, or rather, his
sculpture, was abducted seven times.
5. In 1796, a unique chess game with live
pieces was held at Count Stroganov's
dacha in the New Village: servants dressed in
medieval clothes moved across a yellow-green
meadow.