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Adress index / Saint Petersburg, city / Pryazhka River Embankment
Charlemagne L. I. (1784-1845), architect

CHARLEMAGNE Ludovik Iosifovich (1784 - 1845, St. Petersburg), architect, master of the Empire style. I. I. Charlemagne's brother. Upon graduating the Academy of Fine Arts (1806) worked as the assistant of the architects L. Rusca and А.А. Mikhailov

Dekabristov Street

DEKABRISTOV STREET, called Ofitserskaya Street until 1918, running from Voznesensky Avenue to Pryazhka River Embankment. The street was laid in the 1740s across the Admiralty Board attendants" living-quarters

Prisons (entry)

PRISONS. The first prison in St. Petersburg (Convict gaol, or Convict yard, until 1732 under the jurisdiction of the Admiralty) was built in 1706 in the area of present-day Truda square

Pryazhka, river

PRYAZHKA, a river, flowing from the Moika River into Salnobuyansky Canal and on into the Neva River. The river is 1.32 kilometres long. Banny Bridge, Matisov Bridge and Berdov Bridge were span Pryazhka River

St. Nicholas Psychiatric Hospital

ST. NICHOLAS PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL (126 Moika River Embankment). The predecessor of the hospital was the Temporary Clinic for the Insane of the Correctional Institute (1865) which was housed in the building of the prison (1840, the architect L.I

Sukhanov S.X., (1769-1840s), stonecutter, sculptor

SUKHANOV Samson Xenofontovich (1769-1840s, St. Petersburg), stonecutter, sculptor. Moved to St. Petersburg around 1800. Many orders for building were fulfilled by him or under his supervision. His most important works in stone in St