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Audio tour Summary
Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.St.Petersburg, capital city of the Russian empire, was created on the orders of Peter I, better known as Peter the Great. This tour begins in the grand surroundings of Palace Square. At its centre stands the iconic Alexander Column, celebrating the Russian victory over Napoleon’s armies. On the north side stands the 3-storey turquoise Royal Winter Palace, lined with columns in a neo-classical style. The Small Hermitage on its eastern flank was built for Catherine II and houses the so-called “favourites wing”, where it’s said the Empress kept her lovers. If you turn so you have the Winter Palace at your back, you will be facing the great central arch and huge yellow facade of the General Staff Headquarters, arranged in an enormous arc. Look left at the four-storeyed building topped with colonnades between the third and fourth floors. It was the Guards Regiment until 1917 – it’s still today a military building, headquarters for the Sixth Army Air Force Division.
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Photo Nevsky Avenue 01 by Florstein is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0
- 1 Palace Square
- 2 Alexander Column
- 3 The Winter Palace
- 4 The General Staff Building
- 5 The Alexander Gardens and Admiralty
- 6 The Nevsky Prospect. Beginning: Houses of Wawelberg (7-9), Sivers-Treiberg (11) and Chaplin (13)
- 7 Houses of Chicherin (15) and Cotomin (18)
- 8 Green Bridge and The Stroganoff Palace (17)
- 9 The Lutheran Church of St.Peter and St.Paul (22)
- 10 The Kazan Cathedral
- 11 The Singer Building (28). The Cathedral on the Spilt Blood
- 12 Engelgardt’s House (30) St.Catherine’s Cathedral (34)
- 13 The City Duma Tower (33), The Grand Hotel Europe (36)
- 14 Arts Square
- 15 The Armenian Church (40) and Gostinny Dvor (The Merchant’s Yard)
- 16 Yeliseyevsky’s Shop (52), statue of Empress Catherine II
- 17 The Anichkov (39) and Bridge
- 18 The Beloselsky-Belorzersky Palace (41)
- 19 The Radisson SAS Royal Hotel (49)
- 20 Grand-Princess Yusopova’s Residence (84-86)
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Audio tour Summary
Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.St.Petersburg, capital city of the Russian empire, was created on the orders of Peter I, better known as Peter the Great. This tour begins in the grand surroundings of Palace Square. At its centre stands the iconic Alexander Column, celebrating the Russian victory over Napoleon’s armies. On the north side stands the 3-storey turquoise Royal Winter Palace, lined with columns in a neo-classical style. The Small Hermitage on its eastern flank was built for Catherine II and houses the so-called “favourites wing”, where it’s said the Empress kept her lovers. If you turn so you have the Winter Palace at your back, you will be facing the great central arch and huge yellow facade of the General Staff Headquarters, arranged in an enormous arc. Look left at the four-storeyed building topped with colonnades between the third and fourth floors. It was the Guards Regiment until 1917 – it’s still today a military building, headquarters for the Sixth Army Air Force Division.
Produced by Audioguides.ru
Photo Nevsky Avenue 01 by Florstein is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0
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