The appearance of Saint Petersburg includes long, straight boulevards, vast spaces, gardens and parks, decorative wrought-iron fences, monuments and decorative sculptures. The Neva River itself, toget
Kazan Cathedral at night 2006
The Trinity Bridge
Griboyedov Canal
Peter the Great's bridge (former Bolsheokhtinsky)
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