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Palace Square, connecting Nevsky Prospekt with Palace Bridge leading to Vasilievsky Island, is the central city square of St Petersburg and of the former Russian Empire. Many significant events took p
Aerial view of the Palace Square, between the Winter Palace (bottom) and the Building of the General Staff (top).
The General Staff Building is an edifice with a 580 m-long bow-shaped facade, situated on Palace Square in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in front of the Winter Palace.
Palace Square
…the square as a vast monument to the 1812–1814 Russian victories over Napoleon and commissioned Carlo Rossi to design the bow-shaped Empire-style Building of the General Staff (1819–1829), which centers on a double triumphal arch crowned with a Roman quadriga. In the centre of the square stands the Alexander Column (1830–1834…
General Staff Building
Eastern Facade