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\n \n PETROVSKAYA EMBANKMENT lying between Troitskaya Square and Petrogradskaya Embankment on the right bank of the Neva River on Petrogradskaya Side. It appeared in what was then the city centre in the 1700s as the first embankment of St. Petersburg. Peter the Great\"s house (today, the Cabin of Peter the Great Museum) was built in 1703. Houses of his associates such as Y. V. Bruce and M. P. Gagarin were situated nearby. P. P. Shafirov\"s house (not preserved) accommodated the Petersburg Academy of Arts in 1724-27. The embankment was built up with storehouses from the 1730s. Gagarinsky Penkovy Buyan was a warehouse for hemp situated in place of house 8 and demolished in 1932. A garden with a bust of the emperor by sculptor P. P. Zabello was located not far from Peter the Great\"s Cabin in 1872. As Troitsky bridge was built in 1903, the embankment was reconstructed and covered with granite by architect N. I. Novikov and engineer F. G. Zbrozhek. It was named Petrovskaya Embankment (Peter\"s Embankment) after Emperor Peter the Great in the same year. Sculptures of mythological characters of Shi-Tza brought from Manchuria were placed in the embankment in 1907. Grand Prince Nikolay Nikolaevich the Younger\"s Palace and apartment house were built by architect A. S. Khrenov at numbers 2 and 2/2 in 1910-13 and 1909, respectively. The palace has been the residence for the Plenipotentiary of the President of the Russian Federation in Northwestern Federal District since 2001. Building 8 was erected by architects E. A. Levinson and I. I. Fomin in 1937-40, building 6 by architects V. F. Belov, A. A. Leyman, and A. V. Govorkovsky in 1961-62. National Actors N. P. Akimov, E. A. Mravinsky, E. A. Lebedev, G. A. Tovstonogov and Y. V. Tolubeev lived in house 4, Rear Admiral P. F. Papkovich and writer F. A. Abramov in house 1/8. A monument to sailors and fathers of the Russian Fleet by sculptor M. K. Anikushin and architect T. P. Sadovsky was opened in 1996.

References: Привалов В. Д. Петровская набережная // БА. 1971. № 31. С. 39-49; Максимов В. Петровская набережная // Диалог. 1988. № 25. С. 28-32.

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