The principal or Jordan Staircase of the Winter Palace, St Petersburg is so called because on the Feast of the Epiphany the Tsar descended this imperial staircase in state for the ceremony of the "Ble
The Jordan Staircase of the Winter Palace, by Konstantin Ukhtomsky (1866)
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The State Staircase
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Vasily Stasov
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Duke Vasily Petrovich Stasov was a Russian architect, born into a wealthy noble family: his father, Pyotr Fyodorovich Stasov, came from one of the oldest aristocratic families founded in 1387 by the 1
Vasily Stasov in an 1820s portrait by Alexander Varnek
Stasov's Trinity Cathedral, St. Petersburg, represents a high point of Russian Neoclassicism.
Narva Triumphal Arch in Saint Petersburg designed by Stasov