Volkonsky Peter Mikhailovich, Duke
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28 February. The mourning train with remains of Emperor Alexander I went through Tsarskoye Selo. On 12 March the funeral service was performed in the Church of the Catherine Palace in front of the coffine with the body of the Emperor ...
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LIBRARIES. The first library of St. Petersburg was founded in 1714 by the decree of Tsar Peter the Great as His Majesty’s Library; later on, it formed the basis of the Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences ...
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Presentation of the Holy Virgin Cathedral
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PRESENTATION OF THE HOLY VIRGIN CATHEDRAL, located on Zagorodny Avenue, is now the park between buildings 45 and 47, the regimental church (since 1913 a cathedral) of the Semenovsky Life Guard Regiment ...
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The House of L.V. Tepper de Fergusson
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A dwelling house with mezzanine was built at the border of the 18th and 19th centuries during the reign of Emperor Paul I. The most probably that the author of the project was P.V ...
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Winter Palace Fire of 1837
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WINTER PALACE FIRE OF 1837. Started on the evening of 17 December 1837, due to a faulty chimney connecting the choirs and the wooden vault in Peter the Great's Hall ...
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