Nevsky Prospect 86 is a neoclassical palace situated on the Nevsky Prospect in St Petersburg, Russia. It is also known as the Palace of Arts or the Palace of Zinaida Yusupova. The first palace on the site of the present palace was built in the...
Alexander Yaroslavich Nevsky (Russian: Александр Ярославич Невский; IPA: [ɐlʲɪˈksandr jɪrɐˈsɫavʲɪtɕ ˈnʲɛfskʲɪj] ; monastic name: Aleksiy; 13 May 1221 – 14 November 1263) was Prince of Novgorod (1236–1240; 1241–1256; 1258–1259) and Grand Prince of...
Princess Zinaida Nikolaevna Yusupova (Russian: Зинаи́да Никола́евна Юсу́пова; 2 September 1861 – 24 November 1939) was a Russian noblewoman, the only heiress of Russia's largest private fortune of her time. Famed for her beauty, the lavishness of...
This is a list of buildings and structures in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Saint Petersburg is the second-largest city in Russia. An important Russian port on the Baltic Sea, it has the status of a federal subject (a federal city). Its name was changed to "Petrograd" in 1914, then to "Leningrad" in 1924, and back to Saint...
Kazan Cathedral (Russian: Казанский кафедральный собор, romanized: Kazanskiy kafedral'nyy sobor), also known as the Cathedral of Our Lady of Kazan, is a cathedral of the Russian Orthodox Church on the Nevsky Prospekt in Saint Petersburg. It is...
Vasily Petrovich Ekimov (Russian: Василий Петрович Екимов; 1756 or 1758 – 1837), sometimes spelled as Yekimov (Russian: Екимов) or Yakimov (Russian: Якимов), was a Russian Empire master founder.
Giacomo Quarenghi (Italian pronunciation: [ˈdʒaːkomo kwaˈreŋɡi, -ˈrɛŋɡi]; Russian: Джа́комо Кваре́нги, romanized: Dzhakomo Kvarengi, IPA: [ˈdʐakəmə kvɐˈrʲenɡʲɪ]; 20 or 21 September 1744 – 2 March [O.S. 18 February] 1817) was an Italian architect who...
Haakon VII (Norwegian: [ˈhôːkʊn]; born Prince Carl of Denmark; 3 August 1872 – 21 September 1957) was King of Norway from 1905 until his death in 1957. Born in Copenhagen during the reign of his grandfather, King Christian IX of Denmark, he was...
This is a list of Saint Petersburg Metro stations. The number sign # denotes the station provides cross-platform interchange design. "A" of the depth column denotes above ground station.
