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Interesting facts about St. Petersburg | saint petersburg | interesting facts | Nevsky prospect | SPb
There are many interesting facts, events and phenomena that make life in St. Petersburg and this city so unlike any other metropolis in the world. Many who have visited the northern capital at least once fall in love with the cultural capital once and for all their lives, leaving a piece of their soul here.
mmm-blog has solved almost all the secrets of St. Petersburg and is ready to reveal interesting facts about St. Petersburg and immediately warn that our famous Bronze Horseman is actually made entirely of bronze, and Nevsky Prospect is not named after the main waterway of the Northern capital , and in honor of Alexander Nevsky.
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- There were canals instead of streets
Many streets of St. Petersburg are located on the site of former rivers and canals, which were filled up. For example, Ligovsky Prospect and Tsiolkovsky Street, other interesting places in St. Petersburg. Also, by order of Peter I, a network of longitudinal and transverse canals was dug on Vasilievsky Island. The banks of the longitudinal channels were called perspectives (avenues), and the banks of the transverse channels were called lines. However, soon the walk along the St. Petersburg canals was stopped, because during the floods that constantly occurred in the city, the Neva flooded the entire Vasilievsky Island. The canals were filled up and turned into streets, and the names of the lines have survived to this day.
- Treasures under the Admiralty ship
Legend has it that inside the ball, under the famous boat, there is a box with gold coins. During the repair in 1928, a casket was indeed found in it, inside of which there were only a few newspapers from 1886, as well as information about all the craftsmen who had been repairing the spire since its installation. And during the 1977 restoration, several more Leningrad newspapers and a draft of the new Constitution of the USSR were placed in the balloon.
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- Color of the Winter Palace
The facades of the imperial palace, the palace square, changed their color once. Initially, the building had an ocher color, and the order elements were white. In 1897, under Nicholas II, the facades of the palace and all buildings in the adjacent square became sandstone red. The terracotta-brick color of the palace remained until the end of the 1920s, and then they tried to first repaint the building gray, then brown, and in 1934 even orange. Finally, in 1947, it was decided to paint the walls of the palace with chromium oxide with the addition of emerald pigment. The building remains in this form to this day, but disputes about the return of the historical color are still ongoing.
- Fence from the Imperial Palace on Stachek Avenue
Perhaps, many Petersburgers pass every day by this fence near the park on Stachek Avenue and do not even suspect that it used to be in the imperial garden near the Winter Palace.
Elephant courtyard on the site of the hotel
Everyone who arrives in St. Petersburg by train from Moscow sees the building of the huge Oktyabrskaya Hotel. Today it is the center of the city here, and in the 18th century this place housed an elephant courtyard, where exotic animals were kept, presented to Empress Catherine II by the Persian Sultan.
Not 1 building, but as many as 5
- Street Architect Rossi runs from the Alexandrinsky Theater to Lomonosov Square.
Glove color lock
The facades of the mystical Mikhailovsky Castle, the Peter and Paul Fortress were built for Paul I, completely different from all sides, so that, according to the plan of the architects, it is better to combine with the surrounding architecture.
Who are these siskin-fawn?
- "Easter egg" by the sculptor Klodt
If you see a bunch of tourists crowding on the Anichkov Bridge and trying to see something under the horse, it means that they probably heard the bike.
Another world-famous monument to Klodt is located on St. Isaac's Square. This monument to Nicholas I is on the same axis with another famous symbol of the city - the Bronze Horseman, between which the majestic cathedral is located.
- The house of Peter I is not the oldest building in the city, as the guides usually tell. The most ancient "inhabitants" of the city are the sphinxes on the embankment of the Neva
- Shards of broken crystal under the floor of the theater
- Alexandrinsky theater
- The bridge is not for kissing
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