Summer Palace
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St. PetersburgAdmiralty SideThe Summer Palace, Peter’s first building project in the city, erected 1710–14 in early Russian Baroque style and designed by Trezzini, stands in the northeastern portion of the garden. The Neva embankment is fronted by a fence (1784), the iron grille of which is reputed to…
Read MoreThe Summer Palace, Peter’s first building project in the city, erected 1710–14 in early Russian Baroque style and designed by Trezzini, stands in the northeastern portion of the garden. The Neva embankment is fronted by a fence (1784), the iron grille of which is reputed to…
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…Peter-Paul Fortress and in the Summer Palace. In the mid-18th century an indelible stamp was put on the city’s appearance by the architects Bartolomeo F. Rastrelli, Savva I. Chevakinsky, and Vasily P. Stasov, working in the Russian Baroque style, which combined clear-cut, even austere lines with richness of decoration and…
Read More…Peter-Paul Fortress and in the Summer Palace. In the mid-18th century an indelible stamp was put on the city’s appearance by the architects Bartolomeo F. Rastrelli, Savva I. Chevakinsky, and Vasily P. Stasov, working in the Russian Baroque style, which combined clear-cut, even austere lines with richness of decoration and…
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