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Eliseevsky Shop
ELISEEVSKY SHOP (56 Nevsky Prospect / 8 Malaya Sadovaya Street) is the monument of architecture of Eclecticism and early Art Nouveau style. The main building housing a food store and a theatre lobby was built in 1902-03 (architect G. V
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First of March, 1881
FIRST OF MARCH 1881, the day Emperor Alexander II was assassinated, prepared and accomplished by the party People's Will. The plan included exploding the Emperor's carriage on its way to the Mikhailovsky Manege
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Fountains (entry)
FOUNTAINS. The first fountains in St. Petersburg were laid out at the beginning of the 18th century in the Summer Garden. In 1717, the first engine was ordered (engineer Desaguliers) for their water supply and in 1717-1721 Ligovsky Canal was dug
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Health Service (common)
HEALTH SERVICE, PUBLIC. The first stationary medical institutions in St. Petersburg were military hospitals for the army and the navy (opened in 1715 and 1717)
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Manezhnaya Square
MANEZHNAYA SQUARE, at the intersection of Italyanskaya Street and Karavannaya Street. It was named in 1866 after the building of Mikhailovsky Manege (1798-1800, architect V.F. Brenna; 1823-24, architect C.I. Rossi )
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Pavements
PAVEMENTS have been built in St. Petersburg since the early 18th century. The first pavements were made of boards, later various paving materials were applied, including planks, cobblestones, asphalt, woodblocks, granite, metal, road metal (pebbles)
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Pedestrian Zones (entry)
PEDESTRIAN ZONES. The first pedestrian zone in St. Petersburg was laid out on Malaya Konyushennaya Street after its reconstruction in 1995-97 (architect F. K. Romanovsky)
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Sadovaya Street, Malaya
SADOVAYA STREET, MALAYA, between Italyanskaya Street and Nevsky Prospect (the shortest street of St. Petersburg, its length is 179 metres). It was built in the second half of the 18th century
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Shuvalov Palace
SHUVALOV PALACE (25 Italyanskaya Street), a monument of Baroque architecture (1749-55, architect S.I. Chevakinsky), the private residence of Count I.I. Shuvalov
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Tchaikovsky P.I., (1840-1893), composer
TCHAIKOVSKY Peter Ilyich (1840-1893, St. Petersburg), composer, conductor, pedagogue, musical writer. Director of the Moscow branch of the Russian Musical Society (1885), member of the Paris Academy of Fine Arts
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Urgent Medical Help (UMH)
Urgent Medical Help (UMH), specialised medical service. The beginning of UMN was laid by the foundation of the Society of the application of First Aid (chief doctor G. I
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Viardot-Garcia P. (1821-1910), singer
VIARDOT-GARCIA Michel Pauline Fernanda (1821-1910), French singer (mezzo-soprano) of Spanish origin, pedagogue, composer. Daughter and pupil of M. Garcia, also took lessons from F. Liszt (pianoforte) and other composers
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